News and Updates

October 13, 2026

1% of a $5 Million Portfolio: Evan Mills on Paying for Advice by Its Value

Full Article Link: https://www.marketwatch.com/picks/we-have-over-1m-and-our-financial-adviser-charged-us-1-on-that-and-didnt-meet-with-us-for-2-years-now-were-just-2-months-from-retirement-help-9a9cde05 Quote from Evan Mills “The biggest question is, if you’re paying 1% AUM, that’s $50,000 on a $5 million portfolio. Are you getting $50,000 worth of […]

October 13, 2026

400 Acres, Three Siblings, and One Brother Who Needs the Land to Make a Living

Divide 400 acres three ways and you get 133 acres apiece. That sounds tidy until you notice that one sibling farms for a living, one wants to cash out, and […]

October 12, 2026

The 351 Conversion Breakdown, a 400-Acre Farm Legacy Fight, and Patterns After Seven Years

Transcript Intro Stephan Shipe: Welcome back to the Scholar Wealth Podcast. This week we begin with a listener sitting on a concentrated single stock position from a 2015 acquisition who […]

October 8, 2026

Sports Team ETFs and the Question of What Produces the Return

Full Article Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/sports-team-etfs-prediction-markets-futures-gambling.html Quote from Evan Mills “For avid sports gamblers and sports fanatics, their team can already break their heart with a loss. Now there’s a way it […]

October 7, 2026

Why I Now Think of Gold as Insurance, Not an Investment

The standard knock on gold is that it does not yield anything. No dividends, no coupons, no earnings. For most of my career, if I saw a large gold position […]

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