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Planning for your future requires a long-term approach. Our seminars and workshops help clients see the bigger picture.
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U.S. Personal Savings Rate
What can be learned from the savings rate?
Budgeting After a Divorce
Divorce is the second most stressful time in a person's life. Here's some tips to get through it.
Retirement Traps to Avoid
Beware of these traps that could upend your retirement.
Don’t Be Your Own Worst Enemy
Emotional biases can adversely impact financial decision making. Here’s a few to be mindful of.
How Financial Professionals Are Compensated
Read this overview to learn how financial advisors are compensated.
Money that Buys Good Health is Never Ill Spent
It's important to make sure your retirement strategy anticipates health-care expenses.
Earnings for All Seasons
Earnings season can move markets. What is it and why is it important?
What If You Get Audited?
The chances of an IRS audit aren't that high. And being audited does not necessarily imply that the IRS suspects wrongdoing.
Types of Stock Market Analysis
Most stock market analysis falls into three broad groups: Fundamental, technical, and sentimental. Here’s a look at each.
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What's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
Bi-Weekly Payments
This calculator estimates the savings from paying a mortgage bi-weekly instead of monthly.
Doubling Your Money
This calculator demonstrates the power of compound interest.
Comparing Mortgage Terms
Estimate the total cost in today's dollars of various mortgage alternatives.
Capital Gains Tax Estimator
Use this calculator to estimate your capital gains tax.
My Retirement Savings
Estimate how long your retirement savings may last using various monthly cash flow rates.
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Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
5 Smart Investing Strategies
There are some smart strategies that may help you pursue your investment objectives
Managing Your Lifestyle
Using smart management to get more of what you want and free up assets to invest.
5 Smart Investing Principles
Principles that can help create a portfolio designed to pursue investment goals.
An Inside Look at Retirement Living
A number of questions and concerns need to be addressed to help you better prepare for retirement living.
Investment Strategies for Retirement
Investment tools and strategies that can enable you to pursue your retirement goals.
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What Our Kids Can Teach us About Saving Money
Would you guess that Millennials are effectively saving for retirement? Well, they are.
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Lifestyle inflation can be the enemy of wealth building. What could happen if you invested instead of buying more stuff?
Estate Management 101
A will may be only one of the documents you need—and one factor to consider—when it comes to managing your estate.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
Saving for College 101
Here’s a crash course on saving for college.
Encore Careers: Push Your Boundaries
Ready for retirement? Find out why many are considering encore careers and push your boundaries into something more, here.