Author: Jon Beyrer

Jon Beyrer, EA, CFP® is a partner of Blankinship & Foster LLC and is the firm’s Chief Compliance Officer. As a lead advisor, he focuses on helping families achieve their goals with sound wealth planning. In the community, Jon serves on several boards and is co-founder of the Professional Alliance for Children, a legal/financial charity for families of ill children. He has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Journal of Financial Planning. Jon lives in San Diego with his family.

A happy, healthy retirement can last many years, and if you’re like most retirees, you want to live self-sufficiently in your own home for as many of those years as possible. As time goes on, keeping up with daily choresREAD MORE

2017 may be the year a fiduciary standard finally takes center stage in the personal financial advice profession. The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Fiduciary Duty Rule, scheduled to be implemented on June 9th, expands the “Investment Advice Fiduciary” definition underREAD MORE

2017 promises to be a very interesting year. What will the Donald Trump presidency and the Republican majority in Congress mean for your taxes and your investments? No one can say for sure. But that’s why it’s so important toREAD MORE

This is the time of year Social Security recipients find out how much their retirement benefits will increase (or not increase), and also how much next year’s Medicare Part B premiums will increase. Based on recent experience, Social Security benefitsREAD MORE

During a long drive through the beautiful Sierra Nevada mountains it occurred to me that while most of the trip may be long stretches on the same road, missing a planned exit for a different direction can derail your wholeREAD MORE