Business & Strategy

What If? Don’t Wait Until Tomorrow Because There May Not Be One

We throw out lines like “you could get hit by a bus tomorrow” fairly frequently as matter of fact. We rarely take anything seriously...

The Business Owner’s Guide to Succession Planning

As a small-business owner, you have a lot on your plate. However, managing your company’s day-to-day operations and keeping up with...

Q&A with Scott Coopersmith, SDA President & Founder

Before we jump right in, tell us a little about yourself… I was raised in rural Sullivan County, N.Y., a region of the Catskill Mountains...

SDA Wealth Strategies Glossary

SDA Wealth Strategies – your full service financial partner. Our website describes us as your Financial Conductor. If you have ANYTHING...

Dealing with Time-Sensitive Obligations While Grieving for Your Spouse/Partner

You can never prepare yourself for your spouse or partner’s death. Their passing leads to a period of unimaginable grief, and that’s...

Q&A with Gus Scacco, Chief Investment Officer at Hudson Valley Investment Advisors, Inc.

The news was as sweet – for us anyway– as the first crack of the bat in spring training or the sound of Clarence Clemons’ sax solo in...

Knock Knock

Even though the world around us is chaotic – to paraphrase Lin-Manuel Miranda – you can’t “throw away your shot.” So even though there’s...

Lessons Learned and We’re Still Learning from Covid

In the immortal words of Alanis Morrisette, “you live, you learn.” OK, someone else said it first, but it’s true. We’ve been amid this...

Relationships are Everything — It Sounds Hokey, But It’s True…

Relationships are imperative to our very existence and well-being. Whether it’s romantic, business, or friendship, it’s essential. For...

Top Three Financial Strategies for Planning Your Divorce

When you are going through a divorce it is normal to feel as if you are “off your game” and experience something we call, brain fog! It...

Why I Became a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst®

No one marries expecting to divorce, yet nationally nearly half of all marriages end in divorce. Divorce is often a traumatic time for...