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Higher interest rates are bad and good

By Mike Switzer

Published January 17, 2023 at 5:30 AM EST

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Rising interest rates have obviously created challenges for home buyers and other borrowers. However, for investors this situation is creating an opportunity that has not been seen in decades. Mike Switzer interviews Roy Janse, a certified financial planner at Goldfinch Wealth Management in Greenville, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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