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To become a successful wealth manager, one needs to understand the financial landscape—where it’s fertile, where it’s barren and how to cultivate strong long-term yields. For Ben Bingham, the analogy hits a bit closer to home—and his current work. After decamping from Yale University to England’s Emerson College in 1970, ostensibly to avoid being drafted […]

In East Harlem there’s a building that’s being renovated as a new model for co-living. The apartment units will be modest, enhanced by a common kitchen and ample congregating area for mostly young people trying to launch a livelihood in Upper Manhattan. Privacy and shared space at a rent more affordable than what they’d likely […]

When we think of the world’s infrastructure—its highways and wires, pipelines and airports—there’s a tendency to see it as something to be fixed, and as much a burden to our lives as it is a boon. Josh Kohn sees infrastructure in a different light. “These are investments, and potentially very good investments, that we’re starting […]

Covenant Wealth Strategies is eager to give back to the community that has blessed them in so many ways. “We consider it a privilege to support our community and serve those around us,” says G. Ward Keever IV, CLU, ChFC, RHU, AEP, CFS, AIF, CKA, president and CEO of Covenant Wealth Strategies. Keever founded Covenant […]

While honoring each client’s confidentiality, Gerald B. Goldberg has anecdotes aplenty about the issues a household may face should the most fiscally savvy member die or become incapacitated by age, illness or injury. All too often, that person has been remiss in sharing his or her knowledge with their spouse, partner or beneficiaries. But if […]

Dino Dionne loves getting stuck in traffic. The honking horns, the inching crawl through the concrete canyons of Manhattan—none of it fazes him. Once the classical music is cued, all the day’s demands seem to vanish. In their place, Dionne brings the bigger picture into focus. What is our firm’s role in the wider financial […]

Beirne Wealth Consulting Services (BWC) very nearly has an A-to-Z list of the causes and organizations it supports—from the American Cancer Society to the Make a Wish Foundation to YMCA Strong Kids. These wide-ranging philanthropic endeavors seem a testament to the Connecticut-based firm’s core principle that corporate responsibility isn’t an obligation—it’s fundamental. “We believe that […]

In 2011, at the height of the Occupy Wall Street protests, Lon Dolber took a walk down to Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan. Over the preceding days, thousands of demonstrators had gathered in and around the mostly concrete common to voice opposition to what they saw as a financial system run amok. Ever the conversationalist, […]

In the run-up to last Thanksgiving, the several hundred clients of Minneapolis-based Advanced Wealth Management Group (AWMG) got greeting cards from the firm they’ve long entrusted to guide their financial futures and plan their retirements. Only the cards were about more than just the usual good wishes. Recipients were given the choice of designating one […]

It’s a refreshing change from the way so many of his colleagues in financial planning and wealth management operate. No asset minimums at Wealth Managers LLC, an independent, partner-owned, socially conscious financial firm run by Shawn C. Everett in Estero, Florida, and North Haven, Connecticut. Others in his position will say you’ve got to go […]