How a financial plan can help investors think long term during times of economic uncertainty

By Mike Switzer

Published April 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM EDT

Mike Switzer, host of the South Carolina Business Review

If there’s one thing most of us would agree on right now is that there is a significant amount of economic uncertainty in our country right now. Which is why our next guest says that it's important to be thinking long term and that means having a financial plan with a long-term perspective. Mike Switzer interviews Peter Pigeon, a certified financial planner with Hobbs Group Advisors in Columbia, S.C.

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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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