Monthly Archives: September 2016

I will never forget the purchase of our first home. The year was 2006, my wife and I were recently married and we began to look at purchasing a home for us and our soon-to-be additional family members!  We found a home in Ankeny we liked and, the next thing you know, we had ourselves a house.  I distinctly remember the interest rate on that home back in 2006 was...

For the last 21 years, Foster Group has been a member of a national network of investment advisory firms, all of whom serve clients in a fiduciary capacity.  The consortium, Zero Alpha Group, was founded in 1995 in recognition of their alignment in vision and goals and their collective desire to work collaboratively.  Today, Foster Group continues to be an active member of ZAG in many ways and our...

Interest rates have been at historic lows for a number of years now and it often leads physicians to ask what they should do with their surplus cash-flow to create the most wealth. Should you accelerate the payoff of student loans and mortgage debt or should you invest the surplus because borrowed dollars are so cheap that, in some cases, the return on the invested dollars could be higher than...