When $200,000 is just Middle Class

(or “Strategies for Life in a High Cost of Living Area”) A few months ago I spoke with Cindy M., a mother working in the high tech industry in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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A Case Study in Navigating an IPO

Do you want to create a smart strategy for your company’s IPO, but you have options and shares and RSUs, you don’t know how they fit together, and it all just seems irreducibly complex? Maybe a case study will be helpful, to illustrate how one woman came up with a good solution for her specific life […]

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Why You Might Want A Professional to Manage Your Investments

Or “Why just putting all your money in the S&P 500 isn’t enough.” (Okay, probably isn’t enough. I’m not allowed to say much that is definitive about investing.) Recently I spoke with a woman who asked, “Can you tell me why I want a financial planner to manage our investments? We just put everything in […]