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Member Spotlight: Mark Willis, CFP®: Empowering Clients with Financial Education and Strategic Planning

NAIFA Advisor Today

Marks journey into the financial services industry was shaped by his personal experience during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, when he faced overwhelming six-figure student loan debt. This experience not only ignited his own desire for financial education but also inspired him to help others avoid similar financial pitfalls.

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Strategic Planning in Volatile Markets

Brown Advisory

Strategic Planning in Volatile Markets ajackson Wed, 04/01/2020 - 09:31 Our conversations with clients usually cover topics that range beyond investment and financial affairs. In sum, there are a variety of planning opportunities (many of which are summarized below) that we can consider together as we think about your long-term plans.

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Strategic Planning in Volatile Markets

Brown Advisory

Strategic Planning in Volatile Markets. We believe that the current environment offers a number of strategic planning opportunities to improve your financial plan, enhance wealth transfers to heirs or charities, minimize the impact of income taxes and broadly help you advance your progress toward long-term goals.

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10 Wednesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Wall Street Journal ) • Why China Is Avoiding Using ‘Bazooka’ to Spur Economy : Beijing isn’t pulling out a “bazooka” stimulus package like it did during the global financial crisis in 2008-09, or even when the pandemic hit in 2020. Quarter-on-quarter growth did slow from a blockbuster 4.2% in the first three months of 2023 to 1.7%

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Transcript: Tim Buckley, Vanguard’s CEO

The Big Picture

And we had prioritized all our strategic plans, we had to figure out how to get them done while people were remote. He stepped down as the CEO in 2008. We chose the latter and said, we have no idea how long this is going to go on, but we owe it to our clients to emerge from it stronger and better than when we went in.

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Investment Perspectives | Liquidity & Volatility

Brown Advisory

As shown, the figure peaked at 52—more than 80% of the trading days in a 90-day period—in late 2008, not long before the market bottomed the following March. The core portfolio can “stay the course” and follow its long-term strategic plan.

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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

It doesn’t manage for quarter-to-quarter earnings, provide earnings guidance, or have budgets and strategic plans at the parent company, though some of the subsidiaries do. In the last 10 years (2008 through 2017), Berkshire’s shareholders’ equity per share and share price grew at 10.5% Berkshire doesn’t do strategic plans.)

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