Alexandra Baig, CFP®Oct 21, 20195 minDon't be scared by sequence-of-return riskMy 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 ...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Oct 15, 20195 minWhen "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 last-minu...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Oct 2, 20196 minTrain, 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 m...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Sep 17, 20196 minBecause 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 s...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Sep 12, 20196 minAll 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 gam...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Sep 4, 20196 minAcing the Tax PreseasonMy niece requested for her birthday a gift certificate from a certain clothing store she “frequents”. The quote marks are because she pr...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Aug 27, 20196 minBPQ-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...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Aug 19, 20195 minAre 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 w...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Jul 31, 20195 minNavigate Special Needs Planning Obstacles with a Good CoachThis 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 ...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Jul 23, 20195 minGiving 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 commun...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Jul 17, 20196 minOpportunity cost = the price of the choice you did not makeWe 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 f...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Jul 9, 20195 minPlease 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 ...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Jun 25, 20196 minGet Smart About Annuities in Special Needs PlanningAmong Saturday Night Live’s (SNL’s) parody ads is one for “Alexa Silver”. You can watch the whole thing here. (Note: language and humor ...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Jun 18, 20195 minNo Magic Number!I was math-phobic in primary school. Perhaps that is an embarrassing admission for someone, who now makes her living running numbers. B...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®Jun 12, 20196 min"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 lo...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®May 30, 20195 minEmploying People With Disabilities: a Critical MissionI’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 eve...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®May 23, 20195 minPutting Disability in PerspectiveIn one FoxTrot cartoon sequence, Jason (the annoyingly and excessively nerdy little brother) hands his older sister Paige a coded message...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®May 15, 20194 minNot So Special NeedsIt’s not new, but I really like this video: in which young adults with Down syndrome question whether or not they really have “special” n...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®May 7, 20195 minJean Vanier truly appreciated friends with disabilitiesRather than discuss an aspect of special needs planning, my blog this week will pay homage to a man named Jean Vanier (1928-2019), who ha...
Alexandra Baig, CFP®May 2, 20195 minSet 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...