In a recent post, Steve Starnes, MBA, CFP® reminisced about watching the Indy 500 as a youth, and how much he enjoyed revisiting its well-established rituals when it aired once again this summer. Likewise, Grand Wealth Management has long offered well-established principles, policies, and processes for our clients to “take for granted,” year after year. In this timely piece, Steve shares three ways our steadfast processes have added value to clients’ best investment practices in a year otherwise fraught with uncertainty.

This summer, Steve Starnes, MBA, CFP® was invited to serve as a guest instructor in an undergraduate business ethics class. He enjoyed the experience, and the questions students asked about sustainable investing. What is it? Can it “work” as an investment strategy? Can environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) ratings help make the world a better place? Inspired by his classroom conversation, Steve covered sustainable investing in a recent Grand Rapids Business Journal article.

Did you take a Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) from your IRA earlier this year? If so, to help with the financial fall-out from COVID-19, the IRS is allowing you to reverse your 2020 RMD distribution … but you must act by August 31. In a July 28th Grand Rapids Business Journal column, Anastasia Wiese, JD, CFP® describes how the RMD “put-back” works, and whether to consider taking advantage of the opportunity.