The First 90 Days as Trustee: What Actually Happens After a Parent Dies
Most families create trusts. Far fewer prepare the human being who will actually have to run one after death. By Vaughn L. Woods, CFP®,
What If Everything Goes Right?
The most dangerous word in finance right now isn’t “recession” — it’s “impossible.” Oil at $77, a new Fed chair, falling mortgage rates, and America
A Brief History of How We All Became Efficiency Freaks
By Vaughn Woods, CFP®, MBA I recently left the training ground for multi-generational dialogue. Instead, I found myself standing in my kitchen, screaming—“REPRESENTATIVE!”—into my telephone.
They’re Not Selling Because Something’s Wrong. They’re Selling Because You’re Buying.
By Vaughn L. Woods, CFP®, MBA | Vaughn Woods Financial Group, Inc. When markets sell off sharply on no apparent news — when your portfolio
The Art of Patient Capital: Why We’re Holding More Cash — and Why It’s Working for You
By Vaughn L. Woods, CFP®, MBA Founder and Owner, Vaughn Woods Financial Group, Inc. In investing, patience is not passivity. It is strategy. Right now,
The Price of Meaning: What Every AI Answer Actually Costs
By Vaughn L. Woods, CFP®, MBA Senior Portfolio Manager | Vaughn Woods Financial Group, Inc. Executive Summary Every time someone asks an artificial intelligence
Inference Vectors and Finance
Or: Why Your Brain Is a Terrible Stock Picker Let’s talk about how you think. Not what you think — but how your brain actually
Trustee Education: Why Families Need to Learn the Job Before They Inherit It
By Vaughn L. Woods, CFP®, MBA Founder and Owner, Vaughn Woods Financial Group, Inc. Most people agree to serve as successor trustee because they want
The Word I Underlined in 2007 — and Why It Now Runs the Machines
By Vaughn L. Woods, CFP®, MBA Founder & Senior Portfolio Manager, Vaughn Woods Financial Group, Inc. Where the research began. Geisel Library, UC San Diego,
What Children Know About War That America’s AI Is Still Learning
By Vaughn Woods, CFP®, MBA, Senior Portfolio Manager, Vaughn Woods Financial Group, Inc. Artificial intelligence is one of the most powerful tools the United States
Fifty Years of Financial Fads: What the Industry Never Told You
By Vaughn L. Woods, CFP®, MBA | Founder & Senior Portfolio Manager, Vaughn Woods Financial Group, Inc “Plans fail for lack of counsel, but
Hope Is an Economic Variable
Oil Prices, Birth Rates, and the Quiet Variable Nobody’s Pricing In By Vaughn Woods, CFP®, MBA Vaughn Woods Financial | April 10, 2026 The