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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) provides some useful tips to avoid Coronavirus-related scams, including testing and vaccine scams:

Baron Financial Team Answers Questions About “Your Personal Economy"SM. To practice mindfulness when making investment decisions, we should: 1. Gather all the facts – not just those at our fingertips 2. Consider all the possible outcomes – not just ones we hope for 3. Consult with your advisor At Baron Financial Group, we always advise our clients to control the controllable and most importantly, keep emotions out of investing. Here is how we help our clients:

Protecting our personal identity in today’s digital world is of paramount importance. Creating a safe password is essential to that process of protecting our personal identifiable information (PII). How do we keep hackers from gaining access to our emails, our financial account information and even our medical records?

Victor Cannillo is quoted on this topic in an article in NJMoneyHelp.com by Karin Price Mueller, originally published on March 31, 2021. A reader with 14 years and $270k left on their 20-year mortgage and currently keeping those funds in an online bank earning 0.40%, posed the question, “Is there a better place to keep this money and earn some kind of yield without too much risk?” Baron Financial Group’s Wealth Management Principal, Victor Cannillo, offered this advice:

You may presume that the political landscape will affect your portfolio. But in actuality, data demonstrates there is no correlation between political party in power and stock market performance. View our video to learn what history has taught us over the past 85 plus years:

Baron Financial Team Answers Questions About “Your Personal EconomySM” Here are 5 simple tips that can help create an effective spending plan: WATCH OUR VIDEO HERE TO LEARN MORE:

Wall Street forecasts lack persistence. Their shelf life may only be a few weeks or months at best. 2020 was a great example; once COVID hit, existing forecasts became worthless. And this happens just about every year – excuses abound as to why the “experts” got it wrong…again. Forecasts are alluring because they provide an illusion of certainty. And our brain wants certainty. The problem is that we are looking for certainty in the wrong place. Our forecast is persistent because...

The power of foresight is desirable but limiting. Even if you could know a future event for certain, it would still be difficult to predict market movements based on that event. For example, say at the beginning of the year I would have told you that...

Baron Financial Team Answers Questions About “Your Personal Economy” As we approach November 3rd, bombarded with election commentary and commercials, you might be asking yourself:

Anthony Benante, a CFA® charterholder with Baron Financial Group, is quoted in an article on NJMoneyHelp.com by Karin Price Mueller, originally published on October 2, 2020. When asked about market volatility and what it means for your portfolio, Anthony said:

Victor Cannillo is quoted on this topic in an article on NJMoneyHelp.com by Karin Price Mueller, originally published on July 30, 2020. A 90-second read by Victor Cannillo: If you are a grandparent who has set up a college-savings plan for your grandchild, you may be concerned as to how it could affect their financial aid eligibility. Here are some things to consider.

We are proud to have presented a Baron Financial Scholarship for the past 10 years to two Fair Lawn High School Class graduates each year who are continuing their education in a business program. We are honored to help these deserving students further their education!