(As seen in the Spring 2024 Newsletter) As nature blooms with the promise of Spring, it’s the perfect time to step outside, rejuvenate our routines, and embrace the beauty around us. Moreover, this season of renewal offers fresh perspectives not just in our personal lives but also in how we approach our financial futures together.Rejuvenate Your Routine With Spring Wellness …
Our Strategic Planning Group Spring 2024 Newsletter is here! Enjoy articles from our CEO and President, Ryan Craner, as well as from advisors, John Park, Tom Craner, and Alex Craner. They each have some great insight with enhancing client services at Strategic Planning Group and investing in current conditions. Are you feeling that Spring fever? Communications Director, Heather Cunningham, promotes …
Strategic Planning Group’s newest Fall 2022 Newsletter is here! Enjoy articles from our CEO and President, Ryan Craner, as well as from advisors, John Park, Tom Craner, and Alex Craner. Who is in the mood for some trivia? Test your knowledge and see how you do. Strategic Planning Group is growing. We are always excited to add more members to …
Amidst all the chaos of the news cycle and the challenges we face today, behind the scenes there is actual magic happening in this country every single day. We live in a time and place of unprecedented innovation, development, and progress that stand to offer a future worth investing in. In 2014, a company named Plenty founded their first vertical …
In today’s world there are many amazing things happening. Technology and innovation have brought humanity forward in ways that have yet to be counted. The broad benefit of cell phones, the internet, and other incredible tech has ushered in a new age of international commerce, jobs, social connection, and general progress. Yet, as we are well aware, with new solutions …
Perhaps my title is a little over simplified. After all, politics affect policy, policy affects the economy, the economy affects the markets. I suppose markets do indirectly, somewhat, care about politics; but not quite the way most people think. A common sentiment I get from clients is the assumption that the markets will react directly and favorably to their party …
We are almost through 2022 and what an eventful year! A few months ago we officially entered the “technical” definition of a bear market and also officially entered the “technical” definition of a recession. As we have already advised you in past Ryan Reports, try not to be too triggered or fearful of the technical definitions of “recession” and “bear …
What is Asset Allocation? The idea of investing money is a foggy subject for many. This is because there is little understanding about how investments are chosen in a given account. The series of investments that one chooses for their investment portfolio is called an asset allocation.A portfolio’s asset allocation may consist of one or two positions, or hundreds or …
Throughout the world’s cultures and religions, the concept of balance is one of the most prominent. From the metaphysical yin and yang in eastern beliefs to the more corporeal day and night in Judeo-Christian theology, balance is prominent for a good reason. The brilliant scholars and philosophers of humanity’s past understood that there exists a balance in all things. We …
By Ryan Craner Over the past few years several Strategic Planning Group clients have contacted me requesting a SOS (Second Opinion Service) regarding proposals pitched to them or their extended family or friends by various insurance sales organizations in Utah. These pitches are coming via self-proclaimed “gurus” on the radio, at dinner seminars, and more. Once I examined the sales proposals, …
