Doug Horn

Would you like a response to a financial question? Send your question to Doug Horn, 115 W. Broadway, Maryville, TN 37801. Be sure to mark your envelope Money Matters. Doug Horn, CFP, is an area financial planner with more than 24 years financial experience and founder of Quality Financial Concepts, located in downtown Maryville.

• Creating income from real estate assets Published 3/15/2010 at 10:52 a.m. 0 comments

  During a prior article discussing retirement income, I mentioned REITs (real estate investment trusts) as a possible source of income. During the past 25 plus years of assisting clients with their investments and taxes, I have had a number of ...

• Dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s of estate planning Published 3/8/2010 at 10:31 a.m. 0 comments

  Estate Planning has been the topic of many of my weekly articles. Whether it is high on the priority list or not, the financial impact of a missing or out-of-date estate plan can be considerable. Just because an estate plan ...

• Creating sources of income Published 3/1/2010 at 10:08 a.m. 0 comments

  Whether you are retired or thinking about retirement soon, the creation of income will most likely be on the top of the list. Now that the paycheck is gone and social security is not filling the gap, retirees must create ...

• The A, B, C’s of mutual funds Published 2/22/2010 at 10:04 a.m. 0 comments

  With mutual funds so prevalent in investor’s portfolio today, it is amazing how many are not aware of the differences in share classes. While there are share classes other than, A, B, and C these are the most common, although ...

• Flying high or about to crash -- Revisited Published 2/15/2010 at 11:39 a.m. 0 comments

  It has been a little over a year since I first wrote “Flying High or About to Crash.” Clearly, last January the economy and investor were in a different state of mind than they are today. At that time, the ...

• Is financial planning like going to the dentist? Published 2/1/2010 at 10:32 a.m. 0 comments

  As I was wrapping up for the week and getting ready to head home for what the weather people are saying will be a long weekend of staying inside due to a massive storm, I looked back at my first ...

• The new tailwinds of regulations and its potential impact Published 1/25/2010 at 2:13 p.m. 0 comments

  The current administration wants to move forward with changes in the regulations governing many of the country’s financial institutions, as stated by President Obama Thursday of last week. While I believe anything can be improved, I also believe something as ...

• Estate planning rules - anybody’s guess Published 1/19/2010 at 11:08 a.m. 0 comments

  At the last meeting of the East Tennessee Financial Planning Association Chapter, members were updated on current estate planning issues by Anne M. McKinney, Esquire, a recognized Knoxville legal authority on estate taxes. Per the IRS’s web site, this tax ...

• 2010: Resolutions Published 1/11/2010 at 12:48 p.m. 0 comments

  Seems the hottest topic today is whether this is “two thousand and ten,” or “twenty-ten.” My response is “twenty-ten.” While this seems uncomfortable to say for many, most likely this is because we are accustomed to saying eighteen or nineteen ...

• 2009 - Year in review Published 12/28/2009 at 2:15 p.m. 0 comments

  For almost the first quarter of 2009, everyone was wondering just how bad it will get. Shopping for the luxury items just about came to a standstill. The number of cars being sold slowed to a pace not seen in ...

• Three overlooked areas for estate planning consideration Published 12/21/2009 at 12:55 p.m. 0 comments

  As the close of another year approaches, this may be the ideal time to make sure all estate planning documents are in order and everything has been included. Estate Planning has been my topic for several weeks, and there seems ...

• Designing the best possible fit Published 12/14/2009 at 10:19 a.m. 0 comments

  A topic that is almost avoided equally as much as estate planning is the discussion of how a family will care for an elderly parent when they can no longer care for themselves. I can almost hear the pages of ...

• The topic that should be discussed… but rarely is Published 12/7/2009 at 11:14 a.m. 0 comments

  Estate planning seems to be such a feared topic that it is probably discussed less frequently than many of the ailments individuals often suffer. In a social setting, I am more likely to hear about somebody’s hernia than the fact ...

• Correction, recovery, inflation…what is ahead? Published 11/30/2009 at 10:28 a.m. 0 comments

  Today, headlines will include speculation about the direction of the market and the economy responding to each move in the markets, or release of new economic data. Be sure to remember headlines should not dictate investment policy. Each investor is ...

• If it sounds too good to be true… Published 11/25/2009 at 2:02 p.m. 0 comments

  I hope everyone reading this column is aware current interest rates are not only low, they are almost nonexistent. When the annual interest rate on a savings account is 0.2 percent and that is not 2 percent, but 2 tenths ...

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