Party of 4 – Estate Planning Basics to Celebrate
Break out the cake, ice cream, and party hats because it’s time to celebrate National Estate Planning Week!
Three Categories of Risk for Retirement Income
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
Risks can often feel much different to retirees. The overarching risk for retirees is that something takes place that results in a permanently lower standard of living. Retirement researcher, Wade Pfau, has identified three major categories of risk for one’s income in retirement.
Happy 401(k) Day! Yes, It’s a Holiday!
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
Happy National 401(k) Day! As we take today to celebrate 401k’s, it’s important to consider the increasing challenges employees in our country face when it comes to retirement readiness.
Selling a Business Is Just as Tough as Owning One
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
Owning and operating a business is a tough task. Selling a business is equally difficult. If you’re a business owner, the odds are that you haven’t put together a plan to do this. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Spending That Can Wreck Retirement
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
In more than a decade of working with clients, I’ve discovered that one thing tends to do more damage to financial plans than any other.
Can You Ever Have Enough?
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
There is always more stuff to do or buy. There are always more “what if’s” for which to account. It’s a rare creature who has found contentment in what they already have, a person who no longer searches for the next thing or feels empty because of what they do not have.
Spring Clean Your Financial Plan
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
You can’t have spring without spring cleaning. As you tackle your home, yard, and other spaces this year, your financial plan might also need to be spruced up. Here are a few tips to clean up your financial plan this spring.
Don’t Borrow from Your Future Self
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
While each person has different long-term goals, a common future desire that exists for most people is retirement. There's a day coming when you won't want to, or can’t, work anymore, and your income will need to be replaced. This is a huge “future self” liability that has to be considered.
Three Ways to Make Saving Automatic
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
Here are some ideas and tools you can use to help make your saving automatic, the biggest key to growing your savings.
Webinar: ThanksGIVING
Category: Financial Planning » Charitable Giving
Available on demand now, our ThanksGIVING webinar on charitable giving tactics. In this 30 minute webinar, we cover tips on giving, regardless of the amount, satisfying a required minimum distribution, and some of the top questions from our audience.
Game Saving Plays for 2021 Financial Planning
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
Once the proverbial game clock expires on December 31st, our financial decisions are, for the most part, locked in. There’s no going back. Here are some suggestions to consider for your savings and/or to mitigate the tax bite for 2021.
Sequence of Return Risk
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
The first few years of market return during your retirement, could have a large impact on your portfolio and lifestyle. Ross Polking dives into the Sequence of Return Risk and why you should be aware of it.
Planning and Puppies 101
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
I bought a puppy back in April, and it has been one of the most challenging things of my adult life. Training a new puppy is hard work and takes a lot of intentionality and thought. The same can be said about building a financial plan. I have a few tips that might help others avoid my mistakes.
Mega Backdoor Roth IRAs: What You Should Know
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
A mega backdoor Roth is a great option to quickly build a tax-free bucket of money for individuals who have maxed out other retirement savings vehicles, still have surplus to be invested, and have a 401(k) plan that allows for this strategy. Consider this an additional tool in your toolbox.
Alphabet Soup
Category: Financial Planning » Charitable Giving
Many industries use acronyms. Financial services are no different: QCD, RMD, DAF, and IRA to name a few. They each have their own rules and guidelines. We enjoy working with clients on a daily basis to help make sense of these terms.
Webinar: Creating Your Paycheck in Retirement
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
Joe Bantz and Jason Brown discuss strategies for tapping into your portfolio during retirement.
Don’t Leave Your Last Round to Chance
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
I certainly would argue that building a business is more than just a dice game, but both involve risk. How you fill out your scoresheet in Yahtzee is a good example of what business owners might decide to do with their business profits.
Planning for Retirement? Practice Could Make Perfect
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
Retirement isn’t a reward you one day receive at random. It’s not something you jump into without a thought in mind. You work up to this day with purpose, precision, and dedication.
What Can You Do Before the 2021 Tax Deadline?
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
As you wait for those semi-warm days of spring, there are a few things you can do between now and April 15th connected to your 2020 tax return.
What Can You Do Before the 2021 Tax Deadline?
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
Even though the 2020 calendar year ended, it doesn't mean the tax year has completely ended. There are a handful of items to consider before the April, 15th tax filing deadline.
Are You Really Ready to Exit Your Business?
Category: Financial Planning » Retirement Planning
It’s one thing to turn in the office keys and ride off into the sunset as a former W-2 employee, but what about those who started and built businesses?