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It May Be Time for a Financial Checkup
It’s never a bad time to speak with your financial advisor about changes in your situation.
What Is a 1035 Exchange?
1035 exchanges provide a way to trade-in an annuity contract or life insurance policy without triggering a tax liability.
Six Most Overlooked Tax Deductions
Six overlooked tax deductions to help manage your tax bill.
Fallen Tree Damage—Who Pays?
Your liability for damages that occur when a tree on your property falls on your neighbor’s property is not clear cut.
Do Your Kids Know The Value of a Silver Spoon?
You taught them how to read and how to ride a bike, but have you taught your children how to manage money?
The ABCs of Zero Coupon Bonds
Understanding some basic concepts may help you assess whether zero-coupon bonds have a place in your portfolio.
Insurance Needs Assessment: When You're Newly Married
Marriage changes everything, including your insurance needs.
Please Leave Home Without It
Concerns over identity theft continue to grow, especially with data breaches at major companies and financial institutions.
Volunteering in Retirement
For many, retirement includes contributing their time and talents to an organization in need.
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Home Mortgage Deduction
Use this calculator to assess the potential benefits of a home mortgage deduction.
What's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
Saving for Retirement
This calculator can help you estimate how much you may need to save for retirement.
My Retirement Savings
Estimate how long your retirement savings may last using various monthly cash flow rates.
How Much Home Can I Afford?
With a few simple inputs you can estimate how much of a mortgage you may be able to obtain.
Paying Off a Credit Card
Enter various payment options and determine how long it may take to pay off a credit card.
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Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
Retirement Plan Distributions
There are a number of ways to withdraw money from a qualified retirement plan.
Your Cash Flow Statement
A presentation about managing money: using it, saving it, and even getting credit.
Long-Term-Care Protection Strategies
The chances of needing long-term care, its cost, and strategies for covering that cost.
Keys to Investing for Retirement
There are some key concepts to understand when investing for retirement
5 Smart Investing Strategies
There are some smart strategies that may help you pursue your investment objectives
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Surprise! You’ve Got Money!
Here’s a quick guide to checking to see if you have unclaimed money.
Social Security: By the Numbers
Here are five facts about Social Security that might surprise you.
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?
What Smart Investors Know
Smart investors take the time to separate emotion from fact.
Tuning Your Social Security Benefit
When should you take your Social Security benefit?
The Other Sure Thing
Though we don’t like to think about it, all of us will make an exit sometime. Are you prepared?