This Holiday Season, families will reunite and celebrate various holidays and traditions. This time of year is often filled with joyous emotion as many view their families, friends, and others closest to them as their main source of happiness. Many of those same people have also said, “Money can’t buy happiness!” …But can it?

A common question we ask in our planning conversations is “Who depends upon you for financial support?” More commonly the answer is not just elderly parents, but adult children as well.

Now we have your attention! After going to numerous conferences this year and witnessing this Bull Market approach 9 years, we are starting to hear more about what we should do when the market pulls back.

Fall is here. The air is crisp, the leaves are raked (until next week) and the bulbs are planted…flowering bulbs of varying size and color….arranged so there is continuous color from early spring to the late fall.

This year Columbus Day will be celebrated this Monday, October 9th. The holiday commemorates Christopher Columbus’s arrival to the new world in October of 1492. Columbus Day was first celebrated in 1792 on the 300th anniversary of Columbus’s landing, and became a National Holiday in 1937.