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These 6 steps help you arrive at a spending method that fits your situation like a glove.

David Bach: ‘Start Enjoying Your Life Sooner’

The bestselling author and financial advisor on why sabbaticals can be life-changing, why health matters more than money, a flat tax for IRAs, and more.

5 Money Questions Every Couple Should Ask

These strategies for financial conversations can strengthen your relationship and your balance sheet.

5 Key Takeaways From Expert Forecasts That Can Help Your Financial Plan

US stocks likely won’t have a repeat performance of the last decade.

Cullen Roche: What Is Your Perfect Portfolio?

The financial strategist and author discusses key principles for assembling a successful portfolio, concentration risk in the US market today, and why he’s an evangelist for ‘defined-duration’ investing. 

Your Financial To-Do List for 2026

A plan to get financially fit, one task at a time.

Best of The Long View 2025: Financial Planning and Retirement

Some of our favorite clips from interviews with authors, financial planners, and retirement researchers over the past year.

Ask Your Advisor These Questions About How They Get Paid

Maybe it’s time to audit how much you’re paying for financial advice.

What’s a ‘Good Enough’ Financial Plan?

Key strategies for ‘satisficers’ and ‘recovering optimizers.’

Don’t Gamble With Your Risk Tool

The best risk-tolerance questions lead to meaningful conversations with clients.

Should Couples Merge Their Finances?

Weigh the pros and cons before taking the financial leap, and learn how to manage debt together.

How Financial Advisors Can Guide Clients—and Themselves—Through Market Volatility

First, advisors need to manage their own emotions.

Carl Richards: The Case for ‘Deeply Human’ Financial Advice

The author and advisor to financial advisors discusses some of his favorite money-related sketches, the ‘fake advice industry,’ and how to have better conversations about money.

Why Financial Advice Is Growing More Valuable Than Ever

Investors increasingly need an advisor who can help them make sense of today’s complex investing landscape.

Integrating Wellness Into Financial Advice

Financial advisors can create value for clients by incorporating psychological and physiological metrics.

Why I Have a Financial Planner

Even dedicated DIYers might benefit from a second opinion.

5 Ways Simplicity Beats Complexity in Investing

Clients can have confidence in investment plans they understand.

6 Questions for Financial Planner Victor Orozco

For Hispanic Heritage Month, a look at the financial challenges facing America’s largest minority group.

Nick Murray: ‘The Investor Is Hardwired to Be His Own Worst Enemy’

The advisor to advisors discusses setting plans, dismisses algorithms over humans, and showcases the highest value service that advisors provide.

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