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Andrea Francisco | Dec 3, 2025

5 Time-Tested Investment Strategies to Match Your Financial Mindset

Investments

What makes one investor stick with their strategy through market swings while another panics and pulls out?

Often, it comes down to mindset.

Your investing

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Andrea Francisco | Nov 19, 2025

How to Talk to Your Aging Parents About Estate Planning (Without Making It Tense)

Estate Planning
Family
Health
Disability
Insurance
Risk Management

These conversations aren’t easy.

Bringing up long-term care or estate planning with aging parents can feel like stepping on a landmine—awkward, emotional, maybe

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Andrea Francisco | Nov 4, 2025

Practical Tips: How to Avoid These 4 Estate Planning Missteps

Finance
Lifestyle
Estate Planning

First, let’s start by uncovering the most common mistake in estate planning…

Surprisingly, this frequently made mistake might already be on your doorstep. A

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Andrea Francisco | Oct 23, 2025

Rethinking Retirement: Why True Wealth Is More Than Money

Retirement
Lifestyle
Health
Family

You’ve mapped out your dream retirement. Maybe it’s a cozy beach town, golf twice a week, time with family, or finally starting that side project.

But here’s the

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Andrea Francisco | Oct 3, 2025

7 Effective Tax Optimization Strategies for High-Net-Worth Individuals

Tax Planning
Investments
Retirement
Estate Planning
Real Estate

What does it take to minimize your tax bill, not just this year but in the years to come?

The answer varies for each individual. Tax optimization strategies

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Andrea Francisco | Sep 22, 2025

Your Role & Responsibilities as an Agent in a Power of Attorney (POA)

Investments
Finance
Tax Planning
Insurance
Estate Planning
A power of attorney (POA) can grant you certain authority and specific responsibilities. While the extent and limitations of POAs can vary based on many factors
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Andrea Francisco | Sep 8, 2025

5 Major Retirement Regrets (That Are NOT Inevitable & How to Avoid Them)

Retirement

When are you going to retire?

How did you make that decision?

Many of us look at finances and health when we’re deciding when to retire.

Whether or not we realize

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Andrea Francisco | Aug 14, 2025

Why Your Brain Sabotages Your Investment Plan (No Matter What the Market Does)

Investments
Finance
Savings
Risk Management

The Dow crosses 45,000. Your brain whispers: "This has to be the top."

The market drops 15%. Your brain screams: "Get out before it gets worse!"

Different

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Andrea Francisco | Aug 4, 2025

How to Dive into Business Succession Planning: 10 Key Questions

Investments
Finance
Tax Planning

What will happen to your business when it’s time for you to take a step back?

That can be a tough question that many business owners eventually have to face.

Yet

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EDGE Investment Solutions | Jul 16, 2025

5 Critical Questions HNWIs Should Ask to Address Major Financial Concerns

Investments
Retirement
Tax Planning

What do you do when faced with a complex financial challenge?

Do you seek an immediate solution, or do you take the time to fully understand the issue before

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EDGE Investment Solutions | Jul 10, 2025

Why Patience Beats Perfection: The Long-Term Investor's Guide to Market Timing

Finance
Investments

Over the course of your investing life, you’ll encounter market lows and highs. Headlines often spotlight the extremes, especially when markets reach record

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EDGE Investment Solutions | Jan 25, 2025

4 Pervasive Myths About Inflation

Investments
Finance
Inflation can feel inescapable these days. For most of us, it also feels like inflation is higher and more persistent than it actually is.
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