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Vita Nova’s Mallets And Martinis

Scheduled For March 25

Proceeds To Benefit Homeless About Vita Nova

Vita Nova is a safe bridge to independence for former
Youth In Palm Beach County foster care, LGBTQ, and other homeless youth through
supportive housing, education, employment, and life skills
Vita Nova will host the Sixth Annual Mallets & Martinis training. Vita Nova Inc, located in West Palm Beach, Fla.,
on Saturday, March 25, at the National Croquet Center in is comprised of three components: the Spot, Housing (The
West Palm Beach. The nonprofit’s signature fundraising event Village), and Independent Living.
will raise money to support the homeless youth Vita Nova Vita Nova means “new life” in Latin and was founded by
serves in Palm Beach County. Father Leo Armbrust, a man who believed that foster youth
Beginning at 6 p.m. guests of Mallets & Martinis will deserved a better quality of care. Through the efforts of the Vita
experience an exhilarating evening under the palms featuring Nova team members, its volunteers, and its benefactors, older
croquet, martinis, and live music. Guests, who are encouraged foster and homeless youth are allowed to lead lives characterized
to wear “Chic Croquet Whites,” will also have the opportunity by independence, self-determination, and personal responsibility.
after dinner to bid on amazing live auction items and dance To learn more about Vita Nova or to donate, visit
the night away. Chairs: Yvonne and Ed Varona vitanovainc.org or call (561) 689-0035.
Serving over 400 youth in Palm Beach County, Vita
Nova is a safe bridge to independence for former foster
housing, education, employment, and life skills training. Financial Focus
care, LGBTQ, and other homeless youth through supportive

Working to eliminate homelessness for youth ages 18 to
25 years old in Palm Beach County, Vita Nova acts as an Should Investors “Go It Having a financial professional help you gain a clear
advocate and support system for homeless young adults. idea of your retirement income picture can certainly be
All proceeds from this event will go towards Vita Nova’s Alone”? reassuring. But there may be other reasons why “going
Housing Program and Independent Living Services. it alone” as an investor might not be desirable.
Chairpersons of the event are Yvonne and Ed Varona. By Sally Sima Stahl For example, when the financial markets are down,
Sponsors to date include FPL, MorseLife Health System, If you’re going to enjoy as was the case for much of 2022, some investors make
decisions based on short-term volatility, such as selling
DEX Imaging, HSS Florida, Donor Chip Williams, Searcy a comfortable retirement, investments to “cut their losses,” even if these same
Law- Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., you should know, among investments still have solid business fundamentals
Sunshine Health, and M Law-Mrachek Fitzgerald Rose other things, how much and good prospects for growth. But if you work with a
Konopka Thomas & Weiss, PA. and Palm Beach Illustrated. money you’ll need. And financial professional, you might decide to stick with
Tickets to Mallets & Martinis are $225 each. To learn you may have a much these investments, especially if they’re still appropriate
better chance of knowing
more, become a sponsor and/or purchase tickets, visit this if you get some for your long-term strategy. Other times, of course, the
vitanovainc.org/Mallets-Martinis or call (561) 472-4809. professional help. advice may be different – but it will always be advice
Consider these findings based on your goals, needs and time horizon.
Furthermore, if you’re investing on your own, you
from a 2021 study by
Season Is Here! Dalbar, a financial services may always be measuring your results against the major
market indexes, such as the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones
market research firm:
• Investors who worked with a financial advisor were Industrial Average. But in reality, your portfolio should
Along with season comes the increased three times more likely to estimate what they would have contain a wide range of investments, some of which aren’t
temptation to utilize the golf courses as a park/ saved at retirement than “do-it-yourself” investors. contained in these indexes, so you might not be assessing
your performance appropriately. A financial professional
playground, but we must ask you to refrain • More than two-thirds of investors with a financial can help you develop your own, more meaningful
advisor were satisfied with the amount they would have
from any non-golf related access. saved at retirement, compared to about 27 percent of the benchmarks that can show the progress you’re actually
making toward your goals.
Maintenance is performed on all the courses do-it-yourselfers. In some areas of life, going it alone can be exciting –
during the year, so there is equipment and work How do financial professionals help their clients in but when it comes to investing for your future, you may
these ways?
being done. In addition, it is a time when there First, consider the issue of determining how much benefit from some company on the journey.
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