The leaves are changing color, the days are getting shorter and the acorns are falling signaling that autumn is here. It's hard to believe how quickly time passes.

Thank you to all who attended the two Study Groups this year.  The rest of 2018 got away from us, so we won't be scheduling any more this year; however, there are still opportunities to connect with your peers. As of this writing we have two more monthly meetings, with plenty of time before and after each meeting to network, and a possible November mixer for those who prefer to mingle after work.

Another great way to connect with others while learning is to attend a conference, preferably in a cool location. I had the recent pleasure of attending my first Bob Veres Insider Forum at the end of September near San Diego.  For those of you who want to expand your knowledge and listen to people who are at the forefront of our profession - true thought leaders - you have to go! We heard from Harold Evensky, Deena Katz, Joel Bruckenstein, and Wade Pfau and more. The topics this year included technology, investments, operations and practice management, among others. Some of the questions were: how do we run an efficient practice so that we can spend more time helping our clients? What role will technology play in all this, how will the business of financial planning and investment management change going forward, and what do millennials really want? We got the answers to all of the above and more. I only wish that I could have cloned myself so that I could have listened to more presentations.