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.

It’s no secret that Southern California homes are very expensive. Young families can face some heart wrenching decisions: Should they stretch to buy a home here, move out of the area for a home they can better afford, or putREAD MORE

With Valentine’s Day just a couple days away, it seems timely to talk of l’amour—or more specifically, about marriage and love in retirement. Is Retirement Hazardous to Marriage and Love? The divorce rate among baby boomers has nearly doubled inREAD MORE

After years of “patches”, “extensions” and other temporary maneuvers, Congress has finally made Qualified Charitable IRA Distributions permanent. With the benefit of this permanence, you can now plan ahead to take advantage of the great tax planning opportunities this strategyREAD MORE

While we’ve been busy with the holidays, it appears thieves from around the world have been busy devising new ways to steal from people. Here are some of the latest ill-begotten schemes we’ve heard about, and suggestions for how youREAD MORE

When it comes to health insurance, we can always count on changes. Medicare health and drug plans are no exception. While Part A and Part B of Medicare stay pretty much the same, supplemental “Medi-gap” and prescription drug plans canREAD MORE