News About Us

About the Firm

"Pru-Bache Buys Sullivan Group: Partners Diverge", Business Journal, 1986

"Better Your Business: Benchmark It", Business Week Special Report

"Best of Sacramento — FVB&E is #3",  Sacramento News & Review, 1999

Financial Planning

"Helping Entrepreneurs Plan Their Endgame",  Sacramento Bee, 1999

"Making a Financial Plan to Reflect Your Values",  Sacramento Bee, 2001

"Keeping Your Life (or at least your checkbook) in Balance",  Sacramento Magazine, 2003

"Start Early to Manage Finances",  Sacramento Bee, 2000

"It's Not Too Late to Get Prepared for Retirement",  Sacramento Bee, 2000

"Financial Makeover: Ready for Takeoff", Sylvia Porters' Personal Finance Magazine, 1988

Estate Planning

"A New Wrinkle in Estate Planning",  Profit Magazine, 2000

"Getting to the Green",  Sacramento Bee, 1998

"The IRS Wants You (to be in charge of your assets)"

Investment Management

"Planners Consider Mergers",  Sacramento Bee, 1998

Economic Outlook

"For Burned Investors, It's Time to Start Over", Jack Sirard, Sacramento Bee, January 2004

"Past Suggests a Real Estate Rebound", Sacramento Bee, 1986

Debt Management

"15-Year Loan?", Sacramento Bee, 2001

"'Tis the Season to Overspend", Sacramento Bee

Planning for Women

"Taking Control", Sacramento Bee, 1995

Elfrena Foord

"Elfrena Foord: Queen of the Financial Planners", Sacramento Business Journal, 1987

"Elfrena Foord Gets Personal about Financial Planning", Comstock's Business Magazine, 2000

"Thirty Powerful Women", Sacramento Magazine, 2003 "The Best 200 Financial Planners in the Nation" ,  Money Magazine

"Chamber of Commerce Selects Elfrena Foord", Sacramento Business Journal, 1998

Client Service

Acknowledgement Letter to Chuck Ebersole, Success Profiles, 1997