Understanding Your Financial Environment
You face unique challenges as you and your business grow and evolve. Taking the mystery out of preparing for today and tomorrow allows you to enjoy the journey toward reaching your goals rather than dread the uncertainties. By gaining insight into your individual situation, we make sense of complex financial situations and create solutions that will empower you to move confidently into the future.
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A Team Approach
Using a team approach provides a broad perspective of solutions to help you reach your goals.
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In The Know
Staying current and connected to resources allows you to experience confidence in your financial decisions.
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Comprehensive Care
Creating a comprehensive plan ensures continuous progress toward your particular goals.
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Insurance Needs Assessment: For Empty Nesters and Retirees
Do your insurance needs stay the same when the nest empties?
Revising Estate Strategy Assumptions
Estate tax exemptions rules appear to be stabilizing, prompting many to reconsider conventional estate strategies.
A Home Insurance Claim: To File Or Not To File
Learn when it may not make sense to file a claim on your home insurance.
Planning for the Expected
You can plan ahead to protect yourself and your family against the financial consequences of deteriorating health.
Insurance Needs Assessment: For Empty Nesters and Retirees
Do your insurance needs stay the same when the nest empties?
Universal Life Insurance
Universal life insurance is permanent insurance with a flexible premium. Here's how it works.
Yours, Mine and Ours: Estate Strategies for Second Marriages
Second marriages are a trigger event to revisit any existing estate strategies.
You May Need to Make Estimated Tax Payments If…
Have income that isn’t subject to tax withholding? Or insufficient withholdings? You may have to pay estimated taxes.
Countering Counterfeit Currency
Combating counterfeiting remains core to preserving the integrity of the nation’s money.
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Lifetime of Earnings
Estimate how much you have the potential to earn during your working years.
A Look at Systematic Withdrawals
This calculator may help you estimate how long funds may last given regular withdrawals.
Long-Term-Care Needs
Determine your potential long-term care needs and how long your current assets might last.
Comparing Investments
This calculator compares the net gain of a taxable investment versus a tax-favored one.
Taxable vs. Tax-Deferred Savings
Use this calculator to compare the future value of investments with different tax consequences.
Annuity Comparison
This calculator compares a hypothetical fixed annuity with an account where the interest is taxed each year.
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Long-Term-Care Protection Strategies
The chances of needing long-term care, its cost, and strategies for covering that cost.
Managing Your Lifestyle
Using smart management to get more of what you want and free up assets to invest.
Protecting Those Who Matter Most
The importance of life insurance, how it works, and how much coverage you need.
Retirement Plan Distributions
There are a number of ways to withdraw money from a qualified retirement plan.
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
Tax Management Strategies
Learn more about taxes, tax-favored investing, and tax strategies.
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Bursting the Bubble
Tulips were the first, but they won’t be the last. What forms a “bubble” and what causes them to burst?
Preparing For the Ultimate Vacation
Make your retirement as exciting as your next vacation.
Inflation and Your Portfolio
Even low inflation rates can pose a threat to investment returns.
Tuning Your Social Security Benefit
When should you take your Social Security benefit?
Consider These 3 Things Before Driving Off the Lot
There are a few things to consider when buying or leasing your next vehicle.
The Real Cost of a Vacation Home
What if instead of buying that vacation home, you invested the money?