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Message from Capital Financial 

Services, LLC

As the coronavirus has emerged and spread, we wanted to share with you how Capital Financial Services, LLC is responding, and how we are prepared to keep our employees informed, safe and healthy.

 

Since the outbreak, our primary concern is to sustain the service we provide to our valued clients while protecting the health of our employees.

 

We will continue to make the necessary adjustments to our operations, and have enacted the following precautionary measures:

  • One person will be in the office daily meeting the New York state mandated requirements to reduce outside personnel.  Our telephone lines are open for your calls.
  • We’ve enabled employees to work from home and provide our services with no disruption.

We will carefully monitor these events in the days and weeks ahead and make any necessary adjustments to these steps.

 

The Federal government has moved the deadline for filing and paying your taxes until July 15th. We are substantially ahead of last year in processing tax returns for our clients, and we expect no problem in completing our normal tax return processing for our clients.

 

In addition, our portfolio managers are monitoring market developments and implementing ideas backed by research, experience and a long-term approach. While we understand that market volatility is uncomfortable, it is not unexpected. We ask that you reach out to us if you have questions or concerns.

 

As always, we thank you for choosing Capital Financial Services, LLC and thank you for your continued confidence in our services.

 

We hope that you and your family remain safe and healthy.

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You are not like everyone else. Neither are we. As a strictly fee-only firm, we don't earn commissions from financial product sales. In fact we don't sell any financial products at all. We provide clear and competent financial planning services, focusing on middle-class clients, along with investment management and tax preparation services. Although we're located in Upstate New York, we have clients all over the country and even overseas. Our client's accounts are held at TD Ameritrade, and we manage those investment portfolios using individual securities, mainly publicly traded stocks and bonds. For more than two decades, our mission has been serving our clients, while maintaining our fiduciary responsibility as a member of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA); acting on their behalf, as we would for ourselves. Our team consists of competent industry professionals including a Certified Financial Planner and an Enrolled Agent. We ask you to enjoy the information located here, to visit often for updates, to share what you find valuable with friends, and to contact us as we would like to talk with you.

 

 

 

 

The Ultimate Key to Financial Success!

 

Actually the Ultimate Key is quite well known and not much of a secret,

and yet many people conduct their lives as if they don't understand this truth. An excellent explanation appears here in this quote, from David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens.

 

"My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr. Micawber, "you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and — and in short you are forever floored. As I am!"

 

If you only understand, and follow, this one principle, you will succeed financially.

 

 

- William C. Jerome, CFP®