Author: gstc

A grocery store for the children. It started as a dairy farm: Clover Farms Dairy in Norwalk, Connecticut, to be precise. Even at that point, it was no ordinary milk delivery service. Their trucks had plastic cows on the front that mooed for the children. This small differentiator has become larger and larger. In 1969,…

Inspiration can be found everyday when we notice people treating each other as with respect, and smiles can be found whenever expectations are surpassed. It doesn’t need to be a big expectation either – A simple gesture often creates joy that snowballs into inspiration that allows people to become better people. Everyday happens everyday, but…

One of the conventional pieces of investment advice attributed to Peter Lynch is: invest in what you know. The advice may have been paraphrased from his book, Beating the Street, in which he provides a number of principles for investing. Principle #14: “If you like the store, chances are you’ll love the stock”. This observation…

All trust companies, including Garden State, are held to the “fiduciary standard”, but we don’t hold the monopoly on fiduciary services. In May, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) removed the word “fiduciary” from the mandated language registered investment advisors (RIAs) use in their customer relationship summary concluding the word is “legal jargon”.  Based on…

Last year, many speculated on why Aretha Franklin did not have estate plans in place though she likely knew her end was quickly approaching from pancreatic cancer. The family and her attorney believed there was no will, so the disposition of her complex estate was going to be handled based on the laws of intestacy.…

Before seeing the tremendous debut of Avengers: Endgame (earning over $350 million domestically in ticket sales on opening weekend), many wondered if we were in the endgame for movie theatres. Now some are wondering how it was even possible to take in that much, and where the extra capacity came from. Fun trivia about how…

Losing a beloved pet can be one of the more difficult experiences a person goes through in their lives, but it can be just as hard for the pet to lose their beloved human companion. We are the caretakers of our pets, and caretakers need to create contingency plans for what will happen if they…