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Lean on Me

David Jackson knows just how much the stock market’s cascading losses have shaken some investors. The financial planner with Waddell & Reed Financial Services in Kansas City, Missouri, recently held a marathon discussion with a longstanding client. “She was convinced we were going into a depression,” he recalls. “She left me totally wiped out. I told her, ‘I’ve never seen this fatalistic side of you before!’”

Planning Ahead

Retirement wasn’t on Steven Taylor’s radar until this past July, when the State of Maryland Office of Corrections changed its retirement policy. Employees are no longer required to work 30...

Paper Chase

When Smith, Baptiste, and the original management team came up with the business plan for World Pac, they had product and service diversification as a part of the strategic plan from the start. “We said, ‘OK, our core is paper and packaging products, but what other synergistic things can we get into that support those industries?’” Baptiste says.

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