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How Trump Accounts Can Shape Long-Term Wealth
How Trump Accounts Can Shape Long-Term Wealth By Joe Anderson, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth “What may have historically been a 40-year compounding period can now extend much longer. The difference is not incremental. It reshapes what is...
How Financial Plans Are Designed to Endure Life’s Transitions
How Financial Plans Are Designed to Endure Life’s Transitions By Scott Hefty, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth Financial planning does not remove change, but it provides the structure to move through it with clarity and direction. There...
The Role of Flexibility in Long-Term Wealth Planning
The Role of Flexibility in Long-Term Wealth Planning By Joe Anderson, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth When flexibility is designed into a plan, families gain the ability to adapt as life evolves without losing direction. Change becomes...
Conservative Investing vs. Conservative Planning
Conservative Investing vs. Conservative Planning By Scott Hefty, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth In reality, conservatism is not simply about owning less volatile investments. It is about designing a financial structure capable of...
The Quiet Role of Protection Planning in Long-Term Wealth Strategy
The Quiet Role of Protection Planning in Long-Term Wealth Strategy By Scott Hefty, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth When structured intentionally and coordinated across the full plan, protection planning does more than transfer risk. It...
Why Financial Efficiency Requires Coordination
Why Financial Efficiency Requires Coordination By Joe Anderson, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth When a plan is coordinated, families are better equipped to navigate uncertainty with confidence and to think not in quarters or years, but in...
What to Revisit When Interest Rates Shift (Without Rewriting Your Plan)
What to Revisit When Interest Rates Shift (Without Rewriting Your Plan) By Joe Anderson, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth What often surprises families most is realizing they didn’t need to react emotionally at all. Market volatility is...
What Falling Interest Rates Mean for Long-Term Investors
What Falling Interest Rates Mean for Long-Term Investors By Scott Hefty, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth When planning across decades, short-term interest rate movements tend to have a limited impact on long-term outcomes. Financial success...
Year-End Financial Planning: 15 Wealth Strategies for High-Net-Worth Families
Year-End Financial Planning: 15 Wealth Strategies for High-Net-Worth Families By Joe Anderson, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth Whether you're in your prime earning years, managing inherited wealth or stewarding a legacy across generations,...
Demystifying Annuities: A Clear Guide for Modern Investors
Demystifying Annuities: A Clear Guide for Modern Investors By Scott Hefty, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth Annuities are not for everyone. For the right person, in the right situation, with the right structure and a strong company behind it,...
$1,000 for babies? Here’s what to know about the new ‘Trump accounts’
$1,000 for babies? Here's what to know about the new 'Trump accounts' Joe Anderson, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth, explained to Houston Chronicle: "Ideally, the next generation has retirement style dollars they’ve allowed to grow an...
How to Transition From HENRY to HNWI: Strategies to Take Your Net Worth to the Next Level
How to Transition From HENRY to HNWI: Strategies to Take Your Net Worth to the Next Level Scott Hefty, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth, explained to The Wall Street Journal: “At the end of the day, wealth is going to be built by taking...
Gold as a Strategic Asset: Principles for the Thoughtful Investor
Gold as a Strategic Asset: Principles for the Thoughtful Investor By Scott Hefty, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth Gold can be a useful tool for diversification when guided by discipline and perspective. Its value lies not in speculation or...
Navigating Sudden Wealth: Inherited, Won or Earned, Your First Steps after Life-Changing Money
Navigating Sudden Wealth: Inherited, Won or Earned, Your First Steps after Life-Changing Money By Scott Hefty, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth Whether you've received a substantial inheritance, sold a business, received an unexpected payout...
From a Friend’s Memorial to Fundraising Event: The Super C Foundation Hosts 2025 Collin Campbell Memorial Tournament
From a Friend’s Memorial to Fundraising Event: The Super C Foundation Hosts 2025 Collin Campbell Memorial Tournament By: Marisa Vallbona, APR, Fellow PRSA, Founder/President CIM Inc PR Bobbie Anderson, chief operating officer and founding partner...
Joe Anderson Earns Prestigious Certified Tax Specialist Designation from The Institute of Business & Finance
Joe Anderson Earns Prestigious Certified Tax Specialist Designation from The Institute of Business & Finance By: Marisa Vallbona, APR, Fellow PRSA, Founder/President CIM Inc PR Joe Anderson, a senior wealth manager and founding partner at Serae...
Buying Gold as an Investment: What to Watch For
Buying Gold as an Investment: What to Watch For Scott Hefty, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth, explained to Kiplinger: "Gold-backed ETFs can be a way to efficiently create diversification within an overall investment account, allowing you to...
Retiring Soon? How to Deal With Uncertainty
Retiring Soon? How to Deal With Uncertainty Scott Hefty, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth, explained to The Wall Street Journal: “What we can do is steer the ship in a direction, and yes, different winds or currents are going to push us one...
A CEO’s Guide to The Next Talent War Advantage
A CEO’s Guide to The Next Talent War Advantage Written by Joe Anderson, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth Today’s young talent is strapped with crushing debt and rising housing costs and is looking for better employment incentives. Smart CEOs...
From Five Figures to Six: How to Build Wealth on Any Salary
From Five Figures to Six: How to Build Wealth on Any Salary By Scott Hefty, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth Building a six-figure net worth on a five-figure salary may seem unreachable, but it is possible when time is leveraged and the right...
The government wants to give newborns $1,000. That could grow to nearly half a million by retirement age.
The government wants to give newborns $1,000. That could grow to nearly half a million by retirement age. Joe Anderson, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth, explained to Houston Chronicle: “ ‘It is a staggering figure,’ said Joe Anderson, senior...
How a ‘Trump Account’ Could Grow to $22 Million by Retirement
How a ‘Trump Account’ Could Grow to $22 Million by Retirement Joe Anderson, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth, explained to 401K Specialist: “While some individuals may prefer more flexibility, the rules are in place because the government is...
Americans See 5 Major Threats To Retirement
Americans See 5 Major Threats To Retirement Scott Hefty, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth, explained to Newsweek: "The survey answers don't surprise me. What I do find encouraging is how the top answer was 'my financial decisions,'" he...
Understanding How $1,000 “Trump Accounts” Could Grow from Nearly Half a Million Dollars to $22 Million
Understanding How $1,000 “Trump Accounts” Could Grow from Nearly Half a Million Dollars to $22 Million By Scott Hefty, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth IMPORTANT NOTE: Because past performance is not always indicative of future results, these...
How to build a six-figure net worth on a five-figure salary
How to build a six-figure net worth on a five-figure salary Scott Hefty, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth, explained to Yahoo Finance: “[Having] debt is like swimming upstream, and the interest rate you’re paying is the speed of the current,”...
Trump Baby Accounts Could Create Generation of Millionaire Retirees
Trump Baby Accounts Could Create Generation of Millionaire Retirees Scott Hefty, Senior Wealth Manager and Founding Partner at Serae Wealth, explained to Newsweek: “Currently, the Trump account functions similarly to a traditional retirement account. It offers...