Blake Smith - July 8, 2026 Hello everyone. Blake Smith at Financial Partners here, excited to bring you this month's video. I'm going to talk about what's been on a lot of folks' minds. I've been getting a lot of questions over the last several months from parents, grandparents, about Trump accounts. So, first and foremost, what is a Trump account? A Trump account is a long-term retirement savings vehicle that comes packed with many rules and restrictions. Ultimately, it's a

Jun 2, 2026 Greetings, everyone. This is Bob Kramer giving you your June economic update. One of the subjects that we have always emphasize with our clients is that of diversification. Now, Webster's dictionary defines diversification as a strategy that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio in an attempt to reduce overall risk. So, we're all about managing risk and we have spent many hours on this subject making sure that our clients are well diversified and

May 4, 2026 Greetings everyone. This is Bob Kramer giving you your May economic update with Financial Partners. So, we're past May Day, May 1st on Friday, and the markets have acted pretty pretty good so far this year. Just wanted to let you know the S&P 500 right now is sitting at about 5.6% to the positive. The Dow around 3%. MSCI, which is a Morgan Stanley International Composite, is about 2 and 1/2% and then the ones that are really rocking right now are the emerging mark

Apr 9, 2026 Yeah! Hello everyone. Blake Smith at Financial Partners here bringing you your April 2026 economic update. It was exactly 1 month ago that we did one of these videos and the conflict that Iran had just broken out at that point. And as we discussed in that video, we had several weeks of a lot of volatility. As I'm sitting here on Wednesday, first week of April, we're seeing a big uplift in the markets due to a potential ceasefire that was signed by all sides last n

Mar 5, 2026 Hello everyone. Blake Smith with Financial Partners bringing you your March 2026 financial and economic update. And I'm going to dive right in. What's on everybody's minds? We got breaking news over the weekend that the United States and Israel were launching combat operations against Iran and that ever since that news broke, there's been a lot of investors on edge in this first week of March. And rightfully so, headlines like these caused a lot of chaos in the ma

Bob Kramer - February 2, 2026 Greetings everyone. This is Bob Kramer giving you your February economic update with Financial Partners. So we're starting the new year. January is come and gone and one of the things I like to share with people is a little book called the stock market almanac in every year whether come out in the electronic or or paper form. The almanac does give stock market data and it goes way back to 1950. Since 1950, if the stock market performed favorably

Blake Smith - January 13, 2026 Hello everyone. Blake Smith at Financial Partners here. Very excited to start off the new year with you and doing one of these videos. We're going to do several of these of course throughout the year. We're going to be digging in on topics as the economy evolves, as markets evolve, as tax and estate law evolves. We'll be there with you every step of the way uh to provide updates. But I did want to zoom out a little bit to start the year and just

Blake Smith - December 8, 2025 Hello everyone, Blake Smith at Financial Partners here. Very excited to wrap up the year with this video as we close out 2025 and get closer to the Christmas and holiday season. First and foremost, I just want to thank all of you. You know, we appreciate all of our clients and their families and the lives that we get to touch in a positive way. Without all of you, we we could not do what we do. So, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for ano