To optimize your Social Security benefit one might want to consider the possibility of the strategy known as File and Suspend. In this video we provide a more detailed overview of how this strategy works. Please speak with a financial...
China’s moves to ease mortgage restrictions and cut interest rates are bearing fruit in the nation’s smaller cities, where home prices have staged a recovery. Now comes the bigger challenge: Clearing a supply glut to spur investment by developers. Lower...
As expected, the European Central Bank (ECB) did not act to further ease its already extraordinarily loose monetary stance when its governing council met today in Valletta, the capital of Malta, the 19-strong currency club’s smallest member. But the ECB...
When it comes to electing the best payment options from your pension, one needs to consider how this might affect one’s Social Security benefit. In this video, we discuss how the Windfall Elimination Provision or the Government Pension Offset might...
Type your job title into the search box on the linked webpage to find out the likelihood that it could be automated within the next two decades. About 35% of current jobs in the UK are at high risk of...
Between June 2014 and February 2015 the price Americans paid for petrol fell by a third. Economists predicted this would boost growth by causing consumers, newly flush with cash, to spend more on other goods and services. Instead, the economy...
Archvest is a Proud Community Partner for the 3rd Annual Creole United Festival, Sausalito CA. Our company participation at the Third Annual Creole United Festival, is giving you so much more than a fun day, lots of dancing, great music...
Time to Celebrate Come celebrate our first year anniversary with us at the Creole United Festival on October 17th at Dunphy Park in Sausalito. We are a Proud Community Partner for the festival. The event starts at 11AM and concludes...
Ben Bernanke's book is officially out and available. The Economist's full review will be published later this week (it's a big book). But debate about the book's arguments is already unfolding, and I can't resist joining in. Two weeks ago,...
Bain Capital is liquidating its Absolute Return Capital hedge fund after more than three years of losses, citing a “challenging” environment for macro trading. The fund, run by Jonathan Goodman and Jeff Woolbert, had about $2.2 billion in assets as of...
Will the Federal Reserve raise interest rates by the end of the year? You get a very different answer depending on the source. Eighty-four percent of economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect an initial interest-rate increase in December, according to a...
The credit cards in most Americans’ wallets are pretty much antiques. They’re easy to counterfeit, thanks to magnetic strips that rely on basically the same 1960s technology used in cassette tapes. At last they're getting an upgrade, giving them the technology,...
A lot of financial hurdles come across our life as we age. One in particular is Social Security. This is a system that for most, have been paying into his/ her entire working career. Now it’s time to collect the...
And now… today’s Penning for your thoughts… Good day, and a marvelous Monday to you! Regarding the global economy, us old timers know better than the central planners of each country. There’s been a structural shift in the global economy, and the...
The Federal Reserve’s interest-rate-setters opted for caution when they voted not to raise rates at today’s meeting. On some measures, things look better than when the rate-setting committee last met in June. The committee’s median growth forecast for 2015 has...
