Stay connected. Explore the human side of financial planning.
Our quarterly newsletter brings together professional insights and personal stories that showcase how financial decisions shape life's most important moments. We provide financial tips and market updates, along with the stories from our firm and community. Join us in celebrating milestones, staying in the loop, and gaining wisdom from our real experiences helping families like yours.
2026 First Quarter Edition
In this issue, we cover:
- Living a Life of Impact and Making a Difference
- 3 Ways to Capitalize on a Market Downturn
- Expanding Our Expertise: Two Team Members Achieve CEPA Certification
- In Remembrance
- Client Spotlightes
- HFG Out and About!
2025 Fourth Quarter Edition
In this issue, we cover:
- Designing Your Life – While Working and In Retirement
- Designing Your Life in Retirement: Why Business Owners Must Plan with the End in Mind
- Opportunities Beyond the Balance Sheet (OBBB)
- Client Spotlight
- HFG Out and About!
2025 Third Quarter Edition
In this issue, we cover:
- Health and Wealth: Two Investments that Matter Most
- Year-End Tax Planning: A Checklist for All
- Die with Zero
- Client Spotlight
- Intern Spotlights
- Fun & Team Highlights
2025 Second Quarter Edition
In this issue, we cover:
- Your License to Celebrate: Using Your Wealth to Live Joyfully
- Our Very Own HFG Graduates!
- Graduation Spotlights!
- Client Spotlight: Stuart Goemmer
- Client Spotlight: Cindy Lotz
- Fun & Team Highlights
- AI – and Why It Matters to You
- Congratulations!
2025 First Quarter Edition
In this issue, we cover:
- Trust: The Key Aspect in Healthy, Loving Long-Term Relationships
- We Love Referrals! The Heart of Trusting Relationships
- Navigating Medicare with Confidence
- A Very Special Delivery
- Trust in a Seamless Client Service Team While Mallory is Away
- Building and Maintaining the Trust of Our Community for Over 40 Years
- The Cornerstone of Our Trustworthy Relationship: Understanding Our Fiduciary Duty
- HFG Out and About
2024 Fourth Quarter Edition
In this issue, we cover:
- Create a Life of Meaning Relationships
- Retirement Spotlight
- Building bonds on the water
- Relationships that span generations and change lives
- HFG Pets
- HFG Celebrations
- Team-Building
- Building Stronger Bonds: Nurturing Successful Relationships with Business Partners
2024 Third Quarter Edition
In this issue, we cover:
- Adaptability is a Must in Fast Paced Digital Age of the 21st Century
- HFG’s Commitment to Smart Growth
- Client Spotlights
- Act Now to Save Later: Strategies to Optimize the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Before It Expires
- Retirement Spotlight
- HFG Milestones and Beginnings
2024 Second Quarter Edition
In this issue, we cover:
- Create a Life of Meaning
- The Role of the Investment Committee in Financial Planning
- Understanding Certified Financial Planners and Their Importance
- Commitment to Expertise
- My Spring Break Abroad
- Finding Expertise During and After Retirement
- One Pan Healthy Roasted Chicken and Veggies
- Client Spotlights
- HFG Out and About
2024 First Quarter Edition
In this issue, we cover:
- Harford Financial Group: Be Our Guest!
- Clients for Life: Kathy and James Bageant
- Hospitality in the Neighborhood
- Fairwell to Diane Kurek
- Hospitality at Harford Financial Group
- The Importance of Hospitality and What It Means to Us
2023 Fourth Quarter Edition
In this issue, we cover:
- Teamwork: The Key to a Winning Organization
- Reflections of my First Spartan Race
- It Takes a Village...
- Bench and Barbeque: Harford Family House Event at Snap Fitness
- Client Spotlight: John Kindley, The Heart of a Team
- Recipe Corner
- Everyone's Team
2023 Third Quarter Edition
In this issue, we cover:
- A Life of Gratitude
- Welcome to John and Meghan
- A Mindset of Gratitude is the Key to Successful Retirement
- A Recipe of Love
- Gratitude and Giving: How Charitable Giving and Estate Planning Can Make a Lasting Impact
- Medicare Myths
- Gratitude is the Road to Giving, Serving, and Building a Sense of Community
- What Does Gratitude Mean to Me?
2023 Second Quarter Edition
In this issue, we cover:
- A Whole New World
- Things Aren’t Always What They Seem: How to Spot an Online Scam
- Welcome, Bryan Angelilli
- The Best Dirt Cake Recipe
- Shift Your Perspective to Cash Flow, Not Balance Sheet and Account Values
- Reliable Retirement Income
- Helpful Tips for Parents of College Freshman Living on Campus
- Market Volatility: Friend or Foe? It Depends on Your Perspective
- Congratulations to Ava Freeland!
- Sometimes All a Dream Needs is Perspective: Once Man’s Journey from Finance to Nursing
2023 First Quarter Edition
In this issue, we cover:
- HFG: An Organization of Education
- The Celebration of Learning
- Introducing Bryce Harrison, Certified Financial Planner™
- The Evolution of Retirement Income
- Chocolate Avocado Pudding
- Learning Their Way to the Top
2022 Fourth Quarter Edition
In this issue, we cover:
- Thank You and Well Wishes to Paul Smeton
- Honored
- Client Spotlight: The Pursuit of Happiness
- Client Spotlight: Diana Eisenhour
- Grandmom's Vinegar Cake
- 25 Acts of Christmas Kindness
2022 Third Quarter Edition
In this issue, we cover:
- The Heart of It All
- Is Your Money Being Used to Improve Your Life
- Living Lives of Faith, Service, and Happiness
- The Ins and Outs of Qualified Charitable Donations
- Careful Planning For Your Tomorrows
- Remembering Isobel
2022 Second Quarter Edition
In this issue, we cover:
- When the Cat Licks the Wall
- Client Spotlight: Joe and Terry Smith
- When a Planner Goes on an Unplanned Snowboarding Trip
- Plan for the Unexpected
- Diane's Dish: Pineapple Upside Down Cake
- HFG and Their Family
- New Webinar Available
2022 First Quarter Edition
In this issue, we cover:
- Breaking News - Best of Harford
- Finding Meaning and Purpose in Retirement
- The Road I’m On
- Client Spotlight: Bill and Kay Marshall
- It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
- Donna’s Dish - Hot Milk Cake
- A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes
- The Secrets of Diane’s Vegetable Garden