Celebrating the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program

Mindy recently took a little time to have some fun with fellow Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program (HEMP) participants at a "casino night" the program's organizers threw on April 19. While HEMP is a business mentoring program, the participants are usually hard at work and don't often just get to mingle and network in a fun…

The Supremes

The United States Supreme Court recently heard arguments regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act… also known as Obamacare (you can read all 906 pages of it at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr3590enr/pdf/BILLS-111hr3590enr.pdf). At issue is whether it is constitutional to enact a law forcing every citizen to purchase health insurance… or pay a fine/tax/penalty if they don’t.…

Eric Clark, CFP® Joins BCWM as Wealth Advisor

Contributing as a member of a high-performance team is important to Eric Clark, who joined BCWM as a Wealth Advisor this March. After all, as a varsity baseball player for the University of Central Missouri Mules, he helped take his team all the way to the 1997 Division II College World Series in Montgomery, Ala.…

Beware the Ides? Not this March

I’m a little late posting my Investment Commentary for March. I've been waiting for something to write about. I have become used to disaster and excitement. The world has become eerily quiet and uneventful. No dictatorships have been overthrown lately, Syria notwithstanding (they’re working on it). Occupy Wall Street has become “Go Back Home and Occupy Mom…

Class Warfare? The Speech Obama should have Delivered

When President Obama was running for election four years ago, part of his campaign theme had to do with the unification of America. You know, bring everyone together as patriotic Americans against common enemies and for common causes. Ironically, his attempts to increase taxes on “the wealthy” have not resembled anything remotely similar to unification…