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When you hire an estate planning attorney, you are often looking for help with preparing your accounts and property to ultimately pass smoothly and safely to your loved ones. This is a key component of estate planning. An experienced estate planning attorney will put much thought and effort into ensuring that an appropriate estate plan is created using a variety of legal documents including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and health care directives. These important tools can ensure that what
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As companies grow to become some of the largest firms trading on the US stock market, the returns that push them there can be impressive. But not long after joining the Top 10 largest by market cap, these stocks, on average, lagged the market. • From 1927 to 2019, the average annualized return for these stocks over the three years prior to joining the Top 10 was nearly 25% higher than the market. In the three years after, the edge
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Disneyland has a famous ride, accompanied by an identically named song, called “It’s a Small World (After All),” that was developed to celebrate peace and togetherness. While the ride is intended to remind us of how connected we all are, our beliefs about investing may not be as unified or accepting of differences as the ride and song celebrate. To be sure, some investors invest in a literal small world. They focus on investing in their local stock market and
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