Trilogy Financial acquires two firms, $160 million in AUM

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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Ferrero, global confectionary giant, has brought on Cheryll Forsatz in the newly created role of VP, PR and corporate communications. Forsatz joins Ferrero from Ketchum, where she was a senior VP with responsibility for the agency’s external communications. Before that, she served as director of communications for McDonald’s New York Metro Region and was also a senior VP at MWW PR. At Ferrero, she will lead PR and corporate communications plans and strategies for its product portfolio (which includes Ferrero Rocher, Nutella, Tic Tac and Kinder Joy) as well as for the Ferrero corporate brand.

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