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Estate planning complexity with the rise of new technologies

The language used in important documents may need to shift to reflect recent innovations and complex family dynamics.

Family & Lifestyle

Infographic: Find the words to connect with your loved ones

8 questions to ask your family during the holiday season.

Family & Lifestyle

The 10-year rule for retirement accounts: How new guidelines could impact your IRA beneficiaries

The SECURE Act’s 10-year rule for retirement account beneficiaries is ready for implementation. See how it could impact your wealth and wealth transfer plans.

Retirement & Longevity

Price is what you pay; value is what you get. Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

While enthusiasm may be necessary for greater accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster.

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections or trying to anticipate corrections than has been lost in corrections themselves.

Be fearful when others are greedy; be greedy when others are fearful.

In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.

The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘This time it's different.’

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

In the short term. the market is a voting machine. In the long term, it is a weighing machine.

You make most of your money in a bear market; you just don’t realize it at the time.

Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

In this business, if you’re good, you’re right six times out of 10. You are never going to be right nine times out of 10.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn’t, pays it.

The most important quality for an investor is temperament and not intellect.

It is better to be roughly right than be precisely wrong.