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Soft Dollars and Other Hidden Costs

by Blaise Stevens | Mar 10, 2023 | Blaise Stevens, Investment Management, SAP

Soft Dollars and Other Hidden Costs When you’ve been in the financial services industry for a while (and I would imagine that being in and around any industry has the same inherent circumstance) some topics flare up and become major issues for a brief time before...

The Actual Cost of Hiring a Financial Advisor

by Blaise Stevens | Jan 19, 2023 | Blaise Stevens, Investment Management, Retirement Planning, SAP

The Actual cost of Hiring a Financial Advisor When people think about hiring a financial advisor, the cost of that person is often one of the considerations that goes into the decision making process. There are several ways that advisors can be compensated for their...

Volatility Goes Both Ways

by Blaise Stevens | Sep 13, 2022 | Blaise Stevens, Investment Management, SAP

VOLATILITY GOES BOTH WAYS – NOT JUST DOWN – Blaise Stevens, Strategic Advisory Partners When you make an argument based on the reasoning that’s just plain wrong, it’s a logical fallacy. One of the most well-known is the “strawman argument.” The strawman argument...

How to Take Advantage of Inflation

by Blaise Stevens | Aug 9, 2022 | Blaise Stevens, Investment Management, SAP

How to Take Advantage of Inflation Blaise Stevens, Strategic Advisory Partners It has been several decades since inflation has taken center stage in our lives like it is right now. It’s important to realize that the headwinds we are facing are MORE than just inflation...

There’s No Such Thing as a Runner’s High

by Blaise Stevens | Jul 18, 2022 | Blaise Stevens, Investment Management, Retirement Planning, SAP

There is No Such Thing as a Runner’s High. – Blaise Stevens, Strategic Advisory Partners I began running several years ago. It wasn’t because, like a lot of people, the pandemic stopped me from a gym routine. It was mostly because I realized that as I was...

An Advisor Is Not For Everyone

by Blaise Stevens | Dec 16, 2021 | Blaise Stevens, Investment Management, Retirement Planning, SAP

There have been numerous articles written about Millennials (people born between 1981 and 1996) and Generation Z (or Gen Z, born between 1997 and 2012) and their investing preferences. These two generations, more than any other generation in the history of our...