General Advice – Page 4 – Argent Advisors

Workers Worry About Money Today, Not Retirement Tomorrow

Financial Planning, Financial Wellness, General Advice, Retirement / By Byron Moore

What causes the average Joe stress at work? Work, right? Or maybe something about work – a bad boss, poor working conditions, toxic co-workers or maybe just Facebook being blocked on their work computer (“dang IT guys!”). Each year international accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) sponsors an Employee Financial Wellness Survey. Their 2020 survey asked employees, […]

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Failure … the Path to Success

General Advice, Goals / By Byron Moore

As the class of 2020 Zooms across the stage to collect their virtual diplomas, may I offer some advice as you set off to find your pathway to success? Fail. Often. I didn’t say “be a failure.” Nor did I ask you to enjoy the experience of failing. But if you want to find the

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Are You Prepared to Live to 100?

Financial Planning, General Advice, Retirement / By Byron Moore

What would happen if you lived to be 100? When Wayne was contemplating his retirement from public service, he didn’t want to retire from life. He was looking for an older man who had lived the last portion of his life in an exemplary way. Wayne was 61 at the time. Who looks for a

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Coaches for the Win

General Advice, Goals / By Byron Moore

“Moore, if your brains was dynamite, you couldn’t make a humming bird sneeze!” They don’t make ‘em like Coach Shaw anymore. He “drafted” me for his high school basketball team off my ninth-grade playground. The only thing I had going for me was being over six feet tall and attending a small high school blessed

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Which Job Do You Want?

Financial Advice, General Advice, Insurance / By Byron Moore

The interviews are over. You’ve managed to make it through the gauntlet and emerge on the other side, ready to claim that new job. All that remains is for them to make the offer and you to accept. “We are pleased to be able to make you a job offer to become part of the

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What is Wealth?

Coronavirus, Financial Advice, Financial Planning, General Advice / By Byron Moore

What is wealth? Where does it come from? And is it easily destroyed? These are not academic questions unrelated to our daily if Coronavirus-interrupted lives. In fact, your answer to these questions will drive how you respond during and after the worldwide pandemic. Is wealth the sum of all the money in all the banks

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Freedom from Fear

Coronavirus, Financial Advice, General Advice, Retirement / By Byron Moore

Freedom. It’s one of those things we as Americans prize very, very highly. In fact, Americans prize freedom above almost all else. In the past, we have proven that we will even die to ensure freedom for those we love. But we find ourselves living in a time when that precious gift – freedom –

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Lessons from a Crisis

Financial Advice, Financial Planning, General Advice, Market Turbulence / By Byron Moore

It isn’t the first time and it certainly won’t be the last. But we find ourselves in the midst of a worldwide health crisis – the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Among the many ripple effects of the disease, and the world’s desperate attempts to contain it has been a significant impact on financial markets. Markets don’t like

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No Substitute for Being There in Person

General Advice / By Byron Moore

Sometimes there’s just no substitute for being there in person. Can you imagine sending an employee, who reports to you at work, to your daughter’s school Christmas play? “Your father would have been here, but he had a super important conference call he had to take…” Delegation is a necessary skill and focusing on the

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What’s Got You Stuck?

General Advice / By Byron Moore

What’s got you stuck? Consultant Bobb Beihl tells of a time he was behind the scenes of an Arizona circus and started chatting with a man who trains animals for Hollywood movies. “How is it that you can stake down a ten-ton elephant with the same size stake that you use for this little fellow?”

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