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You may have read that the last day of 2013 is scheduled to be the last day for an estimated 57 different tax deductions--unless the U.S. Congress turns its attention away from the next potential government shutdown and extends some or all of them. All of these deductions will be available to the 2013 tax return that you file by April 15.

Grunden Financial Advisory, Inc. is pleased to announce Eugene Fama has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. Professor Fama's groundbreaking work on asset pricing and markets provides the foundation for our investment philosophy and his work also inspired the founding of Dimensional Fund Advisors.

For some of us, it’s hard to give up on the idea that investing should be exciting. Picking stocks can be fun, after all, and there’s nothing like getting your timing right and bragging about it later with friends.

Markets recently have had a rocky time as investors in aggregate reassess prospects for monetary policy stimulus in the US. Is this something to worry about?

The world’s most closely watched central bank unsettled financial markets by flagging that it may start to scale back its bond purchases later this year.

Trying to correctly time your entry point to the market is never easy. Just ask the experts.

In early February, strategists at a global investment bank were becoming alarmed at political events in Europe, the sequestration “crisis” in the US Congress, and what they saw as an unseemly rush into equities.

The investment community lost one of its more colorful characters last week with the passing of Martin F. Zweig, a prominent market pundit, author, and chairman of Zweig-DiMenna Associates LLC, a New York investment firm. His death also marks the close of another chapter in the long-running debate on the virtues of market timing.

Throughout 2012, nervous investors did not have to look hard for reasons to avoid the financial markets. The daily headlines provided abundant gloom to feed their doubts, but investors who acted on impulse could have missed a potential opportunity to participate in strong returns across the global financial markets.

Throughout 2012, nervous investors did not have to look hard for reasons to avoid the financial markets. The daily headlines provided abundant gloom to feed their doubts, but investors who acted on impulse could have missed a potential opportunity to participate in strong returns across the global financial markets.

Ashley recently participated in a webinar hosted by Bryan Baas, Director of Oversight and Control at TD Ameritrade Institutional over how to protect clients against e-mail fraud. She learned cutting edge information that we are passing on to you.

The fiscal cliff represents a combination of government spending cuts (especially in the military through sequestration) and tax hikes set to take effect in January. Congress brings the nation to this point after their inability to forge a deficit reduction deal over the summer of 2011.