About Alan Thomson

Alan is a Lead Advisor with Resource Planning Group. See more

Financial Healing

Not long ago, our family sat in an office speaking with a doctor whose team had saved my son's life a few months earlier. Since the rescue surgery, Jacob (now 15) has had a couple of follow-up surgeries and endured quite a bit.  On the good side of a rough few months, Jacob’s surgeon hit [...]

Low Rates and High Valuations Have You Down? Don’t Worry…Plan Right!

Since the advent of the Great Financial Crisis in 2008, catalyzed by successive rounds of quantitative easing and ever more stimulative monetary policy from the Federal Reserve, we have found ourselves in an environment of extremely low interest rates.  In this environment, fixed-income investors and savers seeking stable income streams have been punished, receiving ever [...]

The Other Side of the Giving Coin

December.  We began with a plan to post a technical article about risk management considerations: market risk, goal risk, liquidity risk; how an investor might balance each of these through their investing career – truly fun stuff.  December, though, calls for something a little different. We know December as the month of giving. We tell [...]

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