• Should You Hire a Financial Manager? Human or Robot?

    There’s nothing like a raging pandemic to bring home the reality that your mortality is not just a theoretical possibility.  Not unlike the effect of knowing one will hang on the morrow, the current situation has motivated me to give some serious thought to what happens when I’m gone.  While I’m quite comfortable managing our finances, my wife’s ability to find an excuse whenever I try to sit down and go over things makes me realize that she doesn’t share my zest for this financial stuff.  So what would happen if I were no longer around to monitor our far-flung accounts, rebalance things periodically, and hunt for the best CD…