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By David Booth, Chairman and Founder www.dfa.com When I was growing up, our local newspaper, the Kansas City Star, was full of news and had one page for opinion. After decades of cable news and nonstop digital postings, I see more opinions these days than news. That’s not a bad […]

Year-end planning for 2022 has to account for three tax acts—the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the SECURE Act and the CARES Act. These three pieces of legislation offer clients five standout opportunities to lower their income for tax purposes. The first opportunity deals with required minimum distributions, which […]

Personal debt in the US hit an all-time high of approximately $14.6 trillion, shared across 340 million people. Debt isn’t necessarily bad, depending on what use you make of the money you borrow. Unfortunately, financial imprudence and bad management habits do most people in. There’s no one size fits all approach to […]

INTRODUCTION As a parent or guardian, it’s never too early to start thinking of your child’s future, particularly their education: The tuition costs for college and universities have steadily increased over the years, according to the National Centre for Education Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. DoE. Compared to the 2008-09 academic […]