What You and Yours Need to Know About Student Loan Repayments During the Pandemic

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Millions of student loan borrowers across the country are facing difficulty making payments on their loans as the Coronavirus pandemic continues. You personally may not be encountering this problem, but maybe your children or grandchildren are. Alternatively, you may have cosigned on your children or grandchildren’s student loans and as a cosigner you will be […]

CEO Spotlight: Greg Heller, CEO of HCR Wealth Advisors

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What’s the story behind how you became a financial advisor and got to where you are?When I was in college, I really enjoyed corporate finance classes and classes on economics. I took a masters class (upper division) that focused on stocks, bonds, and the markets (NYSE, NASDAQ). From there, I became interested in how companies are financed […]

How To Pick Stocks- Carl Aschenbrenner, HCR Wealth Advisors

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There are several ways to approach stock picking. In this article, I’ll summarize them, what the important issues are, what works, and why you should consider enlisting the help of your friendly neighborhood financial professional who might have a CFA. The first important thing to realize is that if you are deciding to pick stocks, you are […]

HCR Wealth Advisors Highlights Seven Industries that Could Thrive After the Pandemic

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The prognosticators are hardened in their positions: some say the markets are headed toward cataclysmic losses, and others say we are poised for a V-shaped recovery. They can’t both be right. And the truth could land anywhere in between. Regardless, anyone with a 401(k), IRA, mutual fund, or other exposure to the stock market will […]

“Unprecedented”

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In the first quarter of this year, the stock market saw an unprecedented decline – in terms of the speed and magnitude with which it took place.  In the aftermath and ensuing months, the market then staged an unprecedented rebound from the lows.  This was accompanied by an unprecedented amount of stimulus, from both the Fed and […]

HCR Wealth Advisors Helps Explain the Alphabet Soup of Economic Recovery

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If there’s one thing every investor has an opinion about, it’s what shape the economic recovery will take. So, what is ‘shape?’ An economy goes into recession when it reaches a peak of activity and ends when the economy reaches its trough. At that point, the recovery begins. When economists plot out an economy’s future […]

HCR Wealth Advisors is the Right Financial Team for Your Divorce Proceedings

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Finding the actual number of marriages that result in divorce is no easy task. Every organization or agency that tries has so many caveats that the statistics are questionable. But, the American Psychological Association says it’s somewhere around 40–50%. Whatever the number of divorces it is, the only one that counts is yours. If that’s […]