Your Financial Future
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Helpful Content
A Bucket Plan to Go with Your Bucket List
Longer, healthier living can put greater stress on retirement assets; the bucket approach may be one answer.
Eight Mistakes That Can Upend Your Retirement
There are common mistakes you can avoid when saving for retirement.
Creative Ways to Motivate Your Employees
Five creative (and inexpensive) ideas for motivating your employees.
A House Divided
By understanding a few key concepts during a divorce, you may be able to avoid common pitfalls.
What to Look for in a Long-Term Care Policy
Here’s a list of 10 questions to ask that may help you better understand the costs and benefits of long-term-care insurance.
What Do Your Taxes Pay For?
Here's a breakdown of how the federal government spends your tax money.
Required Reading: The Economic Report of the President
The Economic Report of the President can help identify the forces driving — or dragging — the economy.
Four Great, Unexpected Places to Raise a Family
Here are 4 great, and sometimes unexpected, places to raise a family.
Insuring Your Second Home
There are unique risks of owning a second home and obtaining the proper coverage may protect you from financial risk.
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What Is My Current Cash Flow?
Assess whether you are running “in the black” or “in the red” each month.
Interested in a Fuel Efficient Car?
Estimate how many months it may take to recover the out-of-pocket costs when buying a more efficient vehicle.
Historical Inflation
This calculator shows how inflation over the years has impacted purchasing power.
Capital Gains Tax Estimator
Use this calculator to estimate your capital gains tax.
Doubling Your Money
This calculator demonstrates the power of compound interest.
What Is My Risk Tolerance?
This questionnaire will help determine your tolerance for investment risk.
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Managing Your Lifestyle
Using smart management to get more of what you want and free up assets to invest.
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
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.
5 Smart Investing Principles
Principles that can help create a portfolio designed to pursue investment goals.
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Acres of Diamonds
In life it often happens that the answers to our most pressing questions are right in our own backyards.
What Smart Investors Know
Smart investors take the time to separate emotion from fact.
Events on Wall Street
Can successful investors predict changes in the markets? Some can but others miss the market’s signals.
What Can a Million Dollars Buy You?
$1 million in a diversified portfolio could help finance part of your retirement.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations? Here are three tips.
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