Do You Know Your High-Net-Worth Personality?

One of the best ways to make smart decisions about your wealth is to work with professionals who are able to connect with you and relate to you. You want to surround yourself with experts who know you well enough to really “get” what you want your money to accomplish and why. In fact, we’ve […]

Financial Planning for a Special Needs Child

 Raising children and grandchildren is challenging in the best of circumstances. But when a child has special needs or a disability, the hurdles can look more like mountains and the potholes can feel more like bottomless pits.  That’s especially true when it comes to paying for the many expenses that can accompany raising a special […]

Why Advisors Are Rethinking The 4% Rule

In this article from Financial Advisor Magazine, “Why Advisors Are Rethinking The 4% Rule,” Marissa Beyer of Fidato Wealth asks, “What happens if the stock market has a great one-to-two-year period and the account balance goes up—does the distribution amount get recalculated? What if the opposite happens, and the account value goes down? The rule […]

A Wall Around Your Wealth: The Importance of Asset Protection

 Success can come with a major downside: It can make you a potential magnet for lawsuits—including frivolous and unfounded ones—and other attacks that can wreak havoc on your financial health and stability.  Indeed, you may very well know someone in your life who has been sued. Maybe it was you!  That means you’ve got to […]

Transferring Values—Not Just Wealth—to Your Heirs

 Many of us have thought about how to best transfer our wealth to our heirs someday. Unfortunately, we see that parents and grandparents with significant assets often don’t spend enough time on passing along the values that helped them build, grow and maintain that wealth.  The resulting “values vacuum” can potentially cause some big problems […]

Big Wealth Mistakes the Super Rich Don’t Make

 No one is perfect—not even the smartest or most famous among us. But some people veer closer to perfection than others.  Take the self-made Super Rich—a group we define as those with a net worth of $500 million or more that they earned through efforts such as starting a business. These extremely wealthy individuals aren’t […]

Working With the Right Advisor

 These days, too many successful, wealthy individuals and families are simply not getting the advice that’s most appropriate to help them achieve their key financial goals.  There are a number of reasons for this. But one main culprit is that, overall, there are a relatively small number of financial advisors we would describe as extremely […]

What is Wealth Planning, Really?

It can be all too easy to focus on just one aspect of your financial life—and in doing so, miss opportunities as well as incur unnecessary risk.  That’s where wealth planning comes in. Wealth planning is all about examining your full financial picture—not simply investments, although they’re included, but also your advanced needs. These might […]

Fidato Wealth Announces Two-Night Retirement Planning Course

To further their commitment to provide objective financial education to Northeast Ohio area residents, Fidato Wealth, an independently owned and operated fiduciary financial advisory firm located in Middleburg Heights, announced a continuing education course, scheduled to begin later this month. The interactive session, titled Retirement Planning Today®, will be taught over two nights, with sessions at […]