Social Media and Investing

Social Media and Investing – Understanding Your Accounts The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy previously issued this Investor Bulletin to provide investors with tips they should consider when establishing an account on a social media website. Investors’ use of Facebook, X, and other social media websites as an

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Want to Fool an AI Deepfake?

Want to Foil an AI Deepfake? Tell It to Draw a Smiley Face Faced with an onslaught of increasingly sophisticated deepfake scams, some companies are turning to low-tech tactics to foil artificial intelligence-powered audio and video impostors. The tactics, including verbal passphrases, off-topic questions and hand-drawn signs, offer a rare

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AI-Powered Fake Websites

Cybercriminals Use AI to Create Fake Websites That Look Just Like the Real Thing When Joann Fabrics filed for bankruptcy for the second time within a year this January, scammers seized the opportunity. Within days, a flurry of impostor websites appeared with URLs like “joannlosangeles.com,” “jo-annclosingonsale.shop” and “joanndiscount.shop”— all designed

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Ignoring the Right Things

Quick question: What do you usually find yourself reading? News summaries, headlines, and quick bits to keep yourself updated? Or longer reads like books and articles? We’re ever more inundated with information that’s eager to capture our attention. We click because we want to stay up to speed and avoid

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Floating Above the Turmoil

Imagine there are 100 miles between you and a goal. A place you want to get to. But the land in between is chock full of canyons, crevasses, and crumbling cliffs. You have two choices of how you could get there. You could find a way on foot, sliding into

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How Are You Lying to Yourself About Money

Do you think you’re telling yourself the truth about money? We may think we know the facts about our finances. But our beliefs can often overshadow the facts. Our wishes, hopes, and fears can tip the scales away from the truth. This makes it easier for us to believe what

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A “How To” Estate Plan for Your Digital Assets

The last two posts introduced what digital assets are, the importance of planning for them, as well as some obstacles that exist.  Please take a moment to read them HERE.  In this final post we will explore a few solutions that have been developed to help with planning for digital

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How important are your digital assets to you?

In the last post we explored what digital assets are and how important they are in day to day life.  If you would like a refresher you can view that blog post here. Now that we know what digital assets are, how is management of digital assets different than the management

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