Full disclosure: Dick Wagner and I were friends. We were colleagues and collaborators. And as he was for so many, Dick was a mentor to me. Long before I ever knew Dick Wagner, I knew of Dick Wagner. Everyone did – you couldn’t attend Retreat without quickly learning who Dick was. But until our paths crossed
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TranscriptionJoseph: Okay. I will give my perception, my perspective of what the book is about. The book … a little bit of the history of financial planning and, I guess, to me a conceptual framework of how financial timing has evolved, what was delivered. So the way I read it was, you start from people
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This is part of our “….Like a CFP” series on this site. This was originally posted in the Journal of Financial Planning in 2000. FPA Phoenix posted it in 2017. ArticleTen years ago, in the January 1990 issue of this journal, Dick Wagner, J.D., CFP, wrote his seminal essay, “To Think…Like A CFP.” I had just received
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Yes, I’m starting this Finology in Our Lives series with a fair amount of complex philosophy – but stay with me! These ideas are fundamental to Finology & our work at What is Finology?, and they might expand your understanding of money in our lives. Don’t worry, I’ll bring it back. Up next is an analysis of
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