A Minute With Modus - Top Tax Tips You've filed your taxes and are done for another year. Feels great, right? Well, now is the time to get thinking about next year's taxes and some strategies to employ right now as you look ahead to next year's tax filing. In this video, Maggie Swanson
1Q 2021 Commentary
1Q21 Update Market Update What a difference a year makes! It’s hard to believe that, exactly one year from its low on March 23, 2020, the S&P 500 was up a staggering 81%. Over the course of the past 12 months, we’ve gone from virus to vaccine. From
Q1 2021: Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
When someone we love goes through something we just cannot fix, the sentiment always seems to be “I just wish there were something I could do.” A few years ago, I watched helplessly as my dear friend Heidi Gusenius endured a fight against AML, a type of Leukemia. In fact, this was her second
Modus Advisors Welcomes Cathy Hayes
To our clients and friends, We are delighted to announce that Cathy Hayes has joined the Modus Advisors Team! Cathy brings years of client service work to her role as Administrative Assistant. She truly loves serving clients. Cathy is eager to start forming client relationships and to keep the
Future Focused
Most, if not all, of us are happy to have 2020 in the rearview mirror. The coronavirus, racial tension and riots, and a hotly contested election pushed us all to the brink. A return to “normal,” whatever that looks like, would be welcome in 2021! Unprecedented Times I’m often asked if we’re in
New Website!
We are excited to introduce our new website that is found at the same address, www.modusadvisors.com. Diane York, Client Relationship and Marketing Manager at Modus, headed up the project. We were very pleased to work with Lighthouse Media for the videos and Luminfire for the website design. On
3Q 2020 Commentary
3Q20 Update Market Update In a year chock full of “unprecedenteds” and “historics” and “never befores,” another one of those history-making moments of 2020 quietly happened during the third quarter. Despite the ongoing pandemic, continued high unemployment, mostly deserted
Staying Invested
Over the past weeks, we have explored stock market returns under both Democratic and Republican presidencies as well as during divided and unified administrations. We’ve also looked at the media’s predictive fallibility and the importance of staying in the market. What does all this mean for the
Divided vs. Unified Government
The presidency isn’t the only position up for election in November. National, state, and local positions are on the ballot as well. To accomplish what the president wants, he needs the support of some of these officials. Without that support, we oftentimes have gridlock, where nothing seems to get
