How are Nebraska’s biggest public companies performing in the Stock Market?
Halfway through 2017, only two of Nebraska’s big publicly traded companies have outpaced the broader stock market. Ag-irrigation and road infrastructure company Lindsay Corp. has more than doubled the almost 9 percent gain in Standard & Poor’s 500 index so far this year. And Omaha-based …
Protect against the fastest-growing crime: cyber attacks
Cyber theft is the fastest-growing crime in the U.S., and cost the global economy more than $450 billion in 2016, with more than 2 billion person records stolen.
A Cancer Scare Didn’t Doom This Couple’s Retirement
It isn’t every day that a couple can choose to step away from the workplace earlier than anticipated. But that’s exactly what Mark, 64, and Holly Batchelder, 58, of Omaha, Nebraska, did.
Carson Wealth’s New Strategy to Capture Assets
Carson Wealth Management, one of the industry’s most influential planning firms with more than $8 billion in client assets under management and advisement, is luring in big clients and small ones, too. The strategic shift amounts to nothing less than a sea change pushed by the furious …
Area Financial Experts’ Predictions for 2017
Director of Research, Brett Carson, is quoted in this Omaha World Herald article regarding the market in 2017. Omaha’s money managers and investing pros expect the Standard & Poor’s 500 to rise about 8 percent this year, boosted in part by tax and regulatory policies expected to be busi …
InvestmentNews Icons & Innovators
For Ron Carson, founder and CEO of Carson Wealth Management Group, growing up on a farm in Nebraska provided the source of his innovative spirit. “We were always innovating,” he said. “I watched my dad do things [in farming] that were not conventional. People would make fun of him, but he w …
There Are Four Market Risks
Investors may be focused on the election and the possibility of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike, but there are bigger risks to the market, financial advisor Ron Carson told CNBC on Thursday. Specifically, he believes there are four major disruptors investors need to be prepared for, th …
How to Control Money Worries and Start Really Living
When my daughter and I took a six-day rafting trip down the Grand Canyon with 12 other people last summer, one of our companions was Gerry Abrams, the producer of “Houdini” and more than 70 other films. He is also the father of J.J. Abrams, director of “Star Wars: The Forc …
Elders and Equities: How Much Stock Should Retirees Own?
How old are you, and how much stock do you have in your investment portfolio? Ron Carson is quoted in this CNBC article.
How Farm Life Helped Ron Carson Become Nebraska’s Best Wealth Advisor
Ron Carson may not have realized it as a kid growing up on a farm in Tekamah, Nebraska, but harvesting corn, soybeans, alfalfa and wheat was the perfect precursor to a career in wealth management. Full Article on Forbes
Brexit Bedlam: What Advisers Are Telling Clients
“We invest a lot of time upfront with our clients to gauge their risk tolerance and position them accordingly, so unless their risk profile has changed, we would encourage them to not be reactionary. Brexit could mark the beginning of the end of the EU
