Managed Futures Investing

What is man­aged futures? In 2013, Asset Strate­gies will inter­view peo­ple in the finan­cial field to get answers to your ques­tions. Our first inter­view is with Bob Wor­thing­ton, Pres­i­dent of Hat­teras Funds. Hi, I’m Shel­don Har­ber, Pres­i­dent of Asset Strate­gies and today we have the plea­sure of speak­ing with Bob Wor­thing­ton of Hat­teras Funds, based in Raleigh, […]

2013 Income Taxes

A new year means imme­di­ate atten­tion on income taxes which are due in just two-and-a-half months. We’re back with our first arti­cle of 2013.   Are you miss­ing 2013 IRS tax instruc­tion? Don’t worry – just about every­one is miss­ing them. The debate over the Fis­cal Cliff which wasn’t resolved until after the first of the year […]

Fiscal Cliff Financial Planning Part 2

Before the year ends, you can pre­pare with fis­cal cliff finan­cial plan­ning. In Part 1, I talked about tax plan­ning for the fis­cal cliff. This year is dif­fer­ent than past years because tax experts are pre­dict­ing cap­i­tal gain taxes will go up and there­fore, it might be best for you to take your gain this year and post­pone your […]

Asset Strategies Expanding to Alton

FINANCIAL PLANNING FIRM ASSET STRATEGIES, INC. EXPANDS TO MADISON COUNTY, IL. New office in Alton brings com­pany total to three CREVE COEUR, MO. — May 7, 2013 — Asset Strate­gies, Inc. in Creve Coeur, one of the old­est inde­pen­dent finan­cial plan­ning firms in St. Louis, is expand­ing to Metro East. Charles R. West of Alton has reached […]

The Affordable Health Care Act

The Afford­able Health Care Act deci­sion by the United States Supreme Court autho­rizes Con­gress to man­date health care insur­ance for you if it votes to cre­ate a new tax. Good news for par­ents about afford­able health care: You’ll be able to keep your chil­dren on your cur­rent health plan until they’re 26 and health cov­er­age is portable. Here’s […]

Will Washington Control Oil Speculation?

Pres­i­dent Barack Obama wants to to reg­u­late the oil indus­try crack­ing down on oil spec­u­la­tion. We all feel the pain as gas prices flirt with $4 per gal­lon, and nobody seems to know exactly why prices fluc­tu­ate so much. Are the big oil com­pa­nies manip­u­lat­ing the mar­kets? Does China’s grow­ing thirst for fos­sil fuels drive up […]