Why Advisors Are Rethinking The 4% Rule

In this article from Financial Advisor Magazine, “Why Advisors Are Rethinking The 4% Rule,” Marissa Beyer of Fidato Wealth asks, “What happens if the stock market has a great one-to-two-year period and the account balance goes up—does the distribution amount get recalculated? What if the opposite happens, and the account value goes down? The rule […]

A Wall Around Your Wealth: The Importance of Asset Protection

 Success can come with a major downside: It can make you a potential magnet for lawsuits—including frivolous and unfounded ones—and other attacks that can wreak havoc on your financial health and stability.  Indeed, you may very well know someone in your life who has been sued. Maybe it was you!  That means you’ve got to […]

Transferring Values—Not Just Wealth—to Your Heirs

 Many of us have thought about how to best transfer our wealth to our heirs someday. Unfortunately, we see that parents and grandparents with significant assets often don’t spend enough time on passing along the values that helped them build, grow and maintain that wealth.  The resulting “values vacuum” can potentially cause some big problems […]

Big Wealth Mistakes the Super Rich Don’t Make

 No one is perfect—not even the smartest or most famous among us. But some people veer closer to perfection than others.  Take the self-made Super Rich—a group we define as those with a net worth of $500 million or more that they earned through efforts such as starting a business. These extremely wealthy individuals aren’t […]

Working With the Right Advisor

 These days, too many successful, wealthy individuals and families are simply not getting the advice that’s most appropriate to help them achieve their key financial goals.  There are a number of reasons for this. But one main culprit is that, overall, there are a relatively small number of financial advisors we would describe as extremely […]

What is Wealth Planning, Really?

It can be all too easy to focus on just one aspect of your financial life—and in doing so, miss opportunities as well as incur unnecessary risk.  That’s where wealth planning comes in. Wealth planning is all about examining your full financial picture—not simply investments, although they’re included, but also your advanced needs. These might […]

Fidato Wealth Announces Two-Night Retirement Planning Course

To further their commitment to provide objective financial education to Northeast Ohio area residents, Fidato Wealth, an independently owned and operated fiduciary financial advisory firm located in Middleburg Heights, announced a continuing education course, scheduled to begin later this month. The interactive session, titled Retirement Planning Today®, will be taught over two nights, with sessions at […]

5 Ways Advisors Can Team Up With Estate Planners

Clients often have complex estate planning needs that go behind a financial advisor’s expertise. That’s why some advisors are teaming up with estate planning experts to improve the level of service. “Our goal is to provide comprehensive, trusted, ongoing wealth management to our clients and part of that means that we refer them to outside professionals […]

Feeling Philanthropic? A Charitable Planning Primer

 Do you want to have a major impact on a charity or cause that means a great deal to you? Do you want to do well financially by doing good for others in need? If so, you’ve got plenty of company. One top financial issue we hear about from today’s individuals and families is charitable […]