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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Oct 21, 20195 min read
Don't be scared by sequence-of-return risk
My husband was out walking a couple of evenings ago when he passed a cyclist on a tandem bike in our neighborhood. The cyclist, full of...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Oct 15, 20195 min read
When "Worst Comes First."
My son’s Little League team won their game last Sunday. (If you do Little League, you will know about “Fall Ball”). Despite a...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Oct 2, 20196 min read
Train, talk it through then try the run.
The father of one of my son’s schoolmates approached me on a field trip. He mentioned that he was thinking, maybe, of attending one of...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Sep 17, 20196 min read
Because We're "All About That Basis!"
By her own account, Meghan Trainor’s song “All About That Base”, makes a statement that a woman with a large, well, “base” can still be...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Sep 12, 20196 min read
All your basis are belong to IRS!
In an attempt to catch me up in the ongoing video game revolution that I have mostly missed, my husband has educated me about certain...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Sep 4, 20196 min read
Acing the Tax Preseason
My niece requested for her birthday a gift certificate from a certain clothing store she “frequents”. The quote marks are because she...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Aug 27, 20196 min read
BPQ-whY? It's crucial to obtain and review your Benefits Planning Query.
My family and I are currently enjoying The Inbestigators (indicating the best investigators) as our evening escapism. The Australian TV...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Aug 19, 20195 min read
Are We There Yet?
Last week, my family and I took a trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. We drove. (This, by the way, accounts for the missed blog last...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jul 31, 20195 min read
Navigate Special Needs Planning Obstacles with a Good Coach
This past Sunday, my eleven-year-old son competed in his first ever parkour competition. For those of you who don’t know—like me a year...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jul 23, 20195 min read
Giving should not be taxing!
For seven years, I ran a small, faith-based social-service agency in the near-west suburbs of Chicago. It is first and foremost a...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jul 17, 20196 min read
Opportunity cost = the price of the choice you did not make
We give our eleven-year-old son an allowance so that he can learn the value of money, mainly by coming up against the cold, hard, adult...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jul 9, 20195 min read
Please Mind the Gap!
For my first professional career, I worked as a stock market analyst in Hong Kong and, later, Shanghai. For those of you who have never...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jun 25, 20196 min read
Get Smart About Annuities in Special Needs Planning
Among Saturday Night Live’s (SNL’s) parody ads is one for “Alexa Silver”. You can watch the whole thing here. (Note: language and humor...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jun 18, 20195 min read
No Magic Number!
I was math-phobic in primary school. Perhaps that is an embarrassing admission for someone, who now makes her living running numbers. ...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
Jun 12, 20196 min read
"B" is for "Basic Budget."
Sesame Street, the longtime children’s educational show, turns 50 this year. Count Von Count introduced a recent radio segment, which...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
May 30, 20195 min read
Employing People With Disabilities: a Critical Mission
I’m a big fan of Star Trek. One of the things I find most attractive about the fictional futuristic setting of all the series is how...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
May 23, 20195 min read
Putting Disability in Perspective
In one FoxTrot cartoon sequence, Jason (the annoyingly and excessively nerdy little brother) hands his older sister Paige a coded message....
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
May 15, 20194 min read
Not So Special Needs
It’s not new, but I really like this video: in which young adults with Down syndrome question whether or not they really have “special”...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
May 7, 20195 min read
Jean Vanier truly appreciated friends with disabilities
Rather than discuss an aspect of special needs planning, my blog this week will pay homage to a man named Jean Vanier (1928-2019), who...
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Alexandra Baig, CFP®
May 2, 20195 min read
Set up siblings for success!
If you have siblings, or if you are a parent to more than one child, you know that pretty much all siblings have a love-hate relationship....
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