Millennial's now make up a large part of the workforce, being one of the biggest generations ever and their spending habits have the power to change our future. Our world is advancing at rapidly and it has majorly impacted one group of consumers: Millennials. Not only do they have more progressive values and opinions, but millennial [...]
Our President, Phil Ratcliff and the rebel team attended the Morningstar Investment Conference (#MICUS), held in Chicago from May 8- May 10. It is one of the largest conferences in the investing industry where professionals come together and discuss topics relevant to their careers. Watch the Broadcast Keynotes and other Notable Speakers Conversations and presentations [...]
Last week we talked with the new director of a nonprofit organization putting in the extra steps to provide funds for research with the fight for cancer. History Established in 1982, Ohio Cancer Research was founded on a common goal-underwriting cancer research in Ohio. Three doctors, Dr. James Neiddhart, Dr.Grant Varian, and Dr. David Yohn [...]
Last week we talked face to face with the Columbus Managing Director, Toni Cunningham of Per Scholas, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing IT job training to individuals that need it the most. Building Tech In The Nonprofit Space Per Scholas is a national nonprofit organization that was formed in the Bronx, New York [...]
Advancing Ohio Entrepreneurship Last week we talked face to face with the CEO of VentureOhio, a venture capital company with an approach to increase capital to everyone that is ready to do the next big thing. For Ohio, from Ohio. CEO Falon Donohue “I certainly did not expect this path to end up [...]
A happy of screen printing transforming into one of the top screen printing shops in North America. Zachary Traxler, CEO of Traxler Printing, started screen-printing as a hobby in his basement. His father, owner of a “California Myth” T-Shirt Shop, Surf Ohio helped drive Zach's passion into his businesses today. After not getting the success [...]
Luck or Skill? There’s an ancient question in the investment markets, which is affecting the marketplace in a variety of ways: is an active manager’s investment performance the result of luck or skill? The layperson’s answer would be obvious: anybody who has expertise and works hard at something should, eventually, produce results superior to what […]
Student loan debt is one of the fastest rising debts of this generation. Americans currently owe a combined of $1.34 trillion on their student loans. On average, college undergrads are paying 28% more for college than a decade ago, and 65% more than 20 years ago. To mitigate this, it’s important that if you or [...]
Sometimes the popularity of a particular investment is driven by unexpected forces. One example, is the so-called SALT (state and local tax) limitation that was imposed in the recent tax legislation, which basically says that you can only deduct $10,000 on your federal tax return for state taxes, including state income and local property […]
We’ve been hearing for years that the Social Security trust fund will run out of money in 2034, and a close reading of the Social Security Administration’s Trustee Report projections ( https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TRSUM/ ) show what this would mean. The Estimates By that time, based on estimates of the number of people earning an income […]
