LPL Retains $2 Billion Firm Affiliated With NPC

Trilogy Financial has added Ginger Silverman, founder and president of Aha! Unlimited Consulting and vice president of marketing, brands and campaigns at Behr Paint, to its board of directors. Silverman has also led communications initiatives for companies including Prudential, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Homebase and Lindora Medical Weight Control. “Ginger’s leadership, communications excellence and commitment to innovation aligns seamlessly with Trilogy’s core values,” said Jeff Motske, president and CEO of Trilogy Financial.

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No matter how much you and your partner have in common, investing will uncover differences. Maybe one likes playing it safe while the other relishes risk-taking. One wants to invest every available penny, while the other yearns to live it up now. Or perhaps you disagree on when to retire.

Differences are inevitable, says Kathleen Burns Kingsbury, founder of KBK Wealth Connection in Waitsfield, Vermont. “That’s the nature of a partnership.”

But some couples don’t discover their differences until they fester into conflicts. You can avoid discord by bringing financial topics into the open, finding common ground and compromising.

“Learning how to talk about and work through conflict will make you stronger partners,” says Kingsbury, author of “Breaking Money Silence: How to Shatter Money Taboos, Talk More Openly About Finances, and Live a Richer Life.”

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