Markets and Investing

As we start moving towards those expensive holiday months, it’s important to start finding ways to save our pennies.  Don’t lock yourself in the house just yet. We have some creative and fun ways you and your family can get out and enjoy the...

Summer is winding down. I can feel it in the air and see it in the daylight shadows. In many ways, this summer has been the nicest I’ve had in years. The weather in the upper Midwest was nearly perfect, my college kids were both working jobs that...

The Biden Administration recently announcedthat the federal government will cancel up to $20,000 of federal student loans per person. Millions of Americans will be recipients of the student loan debt relief; unfortunately, this creates an...

For Horizon Bank, educating high school students across Northwest Indiana about finances and banking is an important part of their mission. In an effort to get more involved with financial literacy and educating the region’s youth about banking,...

Eighteen organizations will receive grants from NIPSCO to help fund their  safety education and training projects throughout Northern Indiana. This year, NIPSCO has  granted a total of $68,000. Over the past five years since this grant...

One of my favorite Warren Buffet quotes is, “the light on Wall Street can at any time go from green to red without pausing at yellow.” With this in mind, I always enjoy hearing the end of day “market minute” reports on any given media outlet...

Back-to-school season means shopping, whether your children learn at home or head to school in person. Before determining what students may need for the year, set a budget. Planning ahead as much as possible will help keep expenses to a...

Recently an investment property sold in our area that never hit the market. I came to learn that it was not listed on any databases and that is the reason I never knew about it. At the same time, we had a 1031 exchange client looking for the...

With the rising prices of gas and seemingly everything else, restaurants, travel companies, rideshares, and other businesses are tacking on new fees to the basic costs of their services. Businesses are feeling inflation impacts just as the...

My wife, Tracy, and I took a short vacation, celebrating our anniversary, to Utah last week. The trip was planned around an invitation we received to the Ford Performance Driving School in Park City. The invite was included when we purchased her new...