The Story of an Orange

Money is not Math. Math is not money. 

If you were given 4 oranges today and 4 oranges tomorrow, the math says you’ll have 8 oranges a year from now. Sound familiar?

That is what traditional financial planning sounds like.

But we all know that 4 oranges today and 4 oranges tomorrow, a year from now, are going to be 0.

How come?
Perhaps someone gets hungry and steals one.
Maybe you get hungry and eat one.
You try to protect them… but despite your very best efforts, natural processes erode them away anyway.

So here’s the real question:
Does money work like math — where 4 dollars today + 4 dollars tomorrow always equals 8 dollars in a year? Or does money work more like these oranges — where 4 dollars today and 4 dollars tomorrow might leave you with far less than you expected… because of all the wealth-eroding factors eating away at it?

That’s exactly why, at our firm, we don’t just rely on math alone when making recommendations.

We help you make smarter money decisions by understanding the real world we live in — and protecting you from the wealth-eroding factors that attack your money every single day.