Should you reinvest your dividends?

Brian Fricke, CFP®Investing

We get asked this question all the time. Should I reinvest the dividends from my investments. The answer we give most often might surprise you.

Incredible Retirement Tip: Know Your Stock Options

Brian Fricke, CFP®Investing

Stock options are stock options, right? Just like ice cream is ice cream. Try telling that to Baskin Robbins which is proud of all of its thirty-one different flavors. There are two basic flavors of stock options—Non Qualified and Qualified (sometimes called incentive stock options). Here are the differences between the types: Non Qualified Stock Options When you purchase/exercise Non … Read More

Economic and investment outlook for the rest of 2016

Brian Fricke, CFP®Investing

I just got back from a financial planning conference. One of the speakers was an economist who was sharing his outlook for the economy and investments for the rest of 2016. Here’s my summary of what he had to say…