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Chip Shots: Season-End Appreciation

Attrition season, spring scholastic sports edition, will begin this coming week. There is no evil laugh in my tone, just reminding everyone how quickly the scholastic sports season and the entire scholastic sports year have gone.
May 17, 2025
By CHIP DAVENPORT

Like The Rules Of Driving, Here Are 10 Rules For The Retirement Road

With four sons, I’ve spent significant time helping them learn to drive. Thankfully, all of my boys were quick learners, and we had professional driver’s education teachers to do the bulk of the work.
May 17, 2025
By MIKE BERGEN, CIMA®

The Penalty Box: Bears Need To Pick A Site And Start Digging

Everything about the Chicago Bears feels like they’re trending upward.
May 14, 2025
By ROGER GROSSMAN

Chip Shots: A Twisted Twist On A Take

It’s no surprise to me one of the least competently managed NFL franchises drafted Shedeur Sanders. The Cleveland Browns – not the REAL Cleveland Browns in MY heart and mind – made the Colorado Buffaloes quarterback the 144th pick in the 2025 NFL draft two Saturdays ago.
May 10, 2025
By CHIP DAVENPORT

Ten Bad Money Habits To Kick And How You Can Start Identifying Them

Managing your finances effectively is essential for long-term financial health and stability. However, many people unknowingly engage in habits that can hinder their financial well-being.
May 10, 2025
By MIKE BERGEN, CIMA®

The Penalty Box: Parents Acting Badly

You have heard me say and read me saying that parents are often the worst enemies of their own children.
May 7, 2025
By ROGER GROSSMAN

Understanding Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs) And Using Them

Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) are for people over the age of 70.5 years old. Unlike other distributions, which are taxed at ordinary income tax rates, Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs) allow for a tax-free distribution from an IRA, provided that the distribution goes directly to a qualified charity.
May 3, 2025
By MIKE BERGEN, CIMA®

President Trump’s First 100 Days: Restoring Common Sense

In just 100 days, President Trump is delivering on his promise to the American people: bringing common sense back to Washington and putting America first.
May 1, 2025

The Penalty Box: Plans Are Only Plans

I ate from the sampler platter of sports last weekend.
April 30, 2025
By ROGER GROSSMAN

Caring For Kids And Parents Puts You In The Sandwich Generation

The Sandwich Generation is defined as adults who have a living parent over age 65 or older and are either raising a child under 18 or supporting a grown child.
April 28, 2025
By MIKE BERGEN, CIMA®

Chip Shots: How Callous IS It?

For every 700 to 1,000 words of mine you read on any given Saturday, I have a list of callous, cynical thoughts and remarks I can make about the topics I discuss… easily five-fold of what I allow past my filter and, in turn, e-mail to my editor.
April 26, 2025
By CHIP DAVENPORT

The Penalty Box: No One Was Ready For This From College Sports

I was raised very humbly, so “I told you so” is not something you hear or read from me very often.
April 23, 2025
By ROGER GROSSMAN

Chip Shots: Thank You Celtics (City), And L.A.

HBO and max have put together a docuseries, Celtics City, beginning with the Boston Celtics’ pre-dynasty years in the early 1950s to (at the point of the seventh episode) the current millennium.
April 19, 2025
By CHIP DAVENPORT

Preparation Helps With Coping Financially When Your Spouse Dies

One of the hardest parts of our job as financial advisors is helping clients whose spouse has recently passed away.
April 19, 2025
By MIKE BERGEN, CIMA®

The Penalty Box: Let Athletes Be Athletes

There was a game on my TV last weekend, as there often is at my house, but I wasn’t paying that much attention to it—it was just on.
April 17, 2025
By ROGER GROSSMAN
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