One of the greatest sources of stress concerns your finances. And so a great way to decrease financial stress is to get your life organized. With tax time right around the corner, this is a great time to sort through those old files and clear out the ones that you don’t need. Here are four [...]
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
‘Twas the night before Christmas, in the Crimmins’ house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The girls were all hanging out in their beds, With iPods loudly playing music in their heads. And all [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
What are you thankful for? The holidays are here with the official kick off of Thanksgiving. I have always enjoyed the day to spend time with family and cook , bake and cook some more. Every family has certain traditions that makes the day so special. We traditionally spend the day (and days after) at [...]
Help your Children with their School Work: Khan Academy
As fall is in the air in Bergen County, New Jersey and the tri-state region, it can only mean two things: the return of football and the return of school. In this post, we want to pass along a website that we were exposed to recently which is quite astonishing for schoolchildren and adults of [...]
Series – “What Financial Terms Mean – Bond Yields
Continuing on with the series to help explain financial terms in ways that are hopefully more understandable, this post will deal with bond yields. (See the earlier post on - What is a bond?) As the National Football League (NFL) is ending summer training for their season opener in early September, we will begin this [...]
Series – “What Financial Terms Mean” – Bonds
This is the continuation of the series “What Financial Terms Mean?” In the last series post we described what it means to own a stock or equity in a company. This post will answer the question “What do the terms “fixed income” or “bonds” mean?” When you purchase a bond from a company or a [...]
Series – “What do financial terms mean?” Stocks
This post – Stocks Recently, I was at the doctor’s office for a chest cold which turned out to be bronchitis. After the doctor did his diagnosis, he told me that he was going to prescribe a medication that would solve the problem. He gave the names of the two medications which for this non-medical [...]
Why You Should be Optimistic about the Future?
Optimism in the future. That is one of our three principles that we follow here at Crimmins Wealth Management, LLC. Without the belief that 1) the world continues to get better and 2) that improvement will benefit those who are owners of companies, it is hard to be an investor. However any rational look of [...]
5 Behavioral Biases and the Investment Implications
We have consistently written about the significant role people have on their own investment performance. I decided in this post to add a video to mix up the delivery, but not the message. The attached video in from our partner Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) and as we are a strong advocate for investing by capturing exposure to [...]
Happy Independence Day!
Independence Day is the celebration of our country’s birthday! The Declaration of Independence was a historical moment and one that is cherished and celebrated with picnics, barbeques, fireworks, hot dogs and apple pie! It is a great day to wear red, white and blue and to proudly wave the American flag. It is to [...]
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About Dan & Maureen
Dan and Maureen founded Crimmins Wealth Management, a fee-only independent financial advisory firm, to work with individuals and their families to help clarify and plan for their futures by helping them relate money to their lives.
