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Understanding Your True Risk Tolerance is Vital to Portfolio Performance

Submitted by Generational Wealth Group | Eric Nichols | Michael Zurek on March 18th, 2015

As anyone would have expected, the extraordinary convergence of extreme stock market volatility, low interest rates, declining home values, diminished retirement savings accounts, and chronic economic sluggishness has taken a severe toll on the American psyche. For many investors, it may have forever altered the way in which risk is perceived and managed.

What’s Your Life Insurance Plan?

Submitted by Generational Wealth Group | Eric Nichols | Michael Zurek on March 18th, 2015

If you are like many working age adults chances are good that you own some kind of life insurance policy, but the real question isn’t whether or not you are insured; the real question is whether you simply own a life insurance policy versus having a real plan for your family’s life insurance needs.

Finance Lessons for Your Teen

Submitted by Generational Wealth Group | Eric Nichols | Michael Zurek on March 13th, 2015

The current economic environment has caused most everyone to reconsider their personal finances with many people having to drastically change their spending and savings habits. Out of this economic malaise may come an opportunity to finally instill the right habits in your teens that can carry them into adulthood on the right financial footing.

How to Create Order out of Chaos with Your Financial Records

Submitted by Generational Wealth Group | Eric Nichols | Michael Zurek on January 27th, 2015

It should not take the filing of a tax return or a death in the family to finally create order out of paper chaos so you are not forced to scramble in those critical circumstances. The chances of making costly errors are too great not to take some very simple, albeit essential, measures to get and stay organized all year long.

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