DARIUS RAULINAITIS & LAURA NORRIS FINANCIAL PLANNERS Darius Raulinaitis (First Vice President – Portfolio Manager) is a Chartered Financial Analyst and member of the Portfolio Management Group at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.  His partner, Laura Norris (Financial Adviser) is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and Financial Planning Specialist.  Their strengths bring together asset management and planning for the [...]

12/12/2011 Existing Home Sales Beat Expectations: Americans bought previously owned homes at a much higher level than economists had forecasted. Economists had forecasted that October Existing Home Sales would decline -2.20%.  But they actually improved by +1.3%.  The National Association of Realtors reported that the annualized rate of sales is 4.97 million units which was [...]

Julian Hebron from Mortgage News Daily advises consumers to shop for “the best mortgage advisor” because doing so will get you the best mortgage rate. Julian goes onto say: Here’s what happens when shoppers focused only on rate get quoted by a good loan agent: Loan agent quotes a rate only after they’ve analyzed the client’s entire [...]