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Last year, BARR Financial Services, LLC marked its 25th anniversary by celebrating with clients, staff and family. At the event, Kirk Barr Young, founder and president of the firm, expressed his gratitude to the people that he calls the BARR Financial Family. He told them the concept of family drives all client relationships, and that he measures his firm’s success on the quality of those relationships.

OPPORTUNITY LOST AND FOUND The financial and estate planning industries are at a crossroads. Eroding trust is one of many challenges that make it all the more difficult for Advisors to

A few weeks after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, he was asked about pharmaceuticals prices. With typical rhetorical gusto, he declared, “Pharmaceutical

When properties are in distress, or builders are in default, traditional banks simply can’t provide the kind of financing needed to keep projects alive.

Successful companies find the right people for the right jobs. But, the most successful companies find the right jobs for the right people. Many businesses — especially startups — know the

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be in the eye of a hurricane? Have you ever wondered how others have navigated significant organizational crises or the traits they relied on to lead

The Great Recession may be over, but seven years later we can still see the deep scars and unhealed wounds it left on the global economy. In an attempt to prevent an unpleasant revisit to the

We are having a hard time finding high-quality companies at attractive valuations. For us, this is not an academic frustration. We are constantly looking for new stocks by running stock screens

One CEO shares how what he’s learned from the tennis court to the boardroom in order to succeed in business. While top executives may work in every industry, they are not all the same and

One CEO shares why he gives back and others should as well. There is a spending frenzy that takes place every November, with people shopping for deals and collectively spending billions.

Helping clients take better control of their financial future. Few would-be investors could probably define the term “fiduciary.” And that is why so many get pulled into weak investment

Creating Wealth and Building opportunities. As efforts by the federal Department of Labor to create a uniform fiduciary standard make their way through the financial services industry,