Your Financial Future
Today’s economic environment presents many challenges. But along with these challenges comes opportunities and potential rewards for those who can identify long-term trends.
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Helpful Content
Put It in a Letter
A letter of instruction provides additional and more personal information regarding your estate.
Your Emergency Fund: How Much Is Enough?
Having an emergency fund may help alleviate the stress and worry associated with a financial crisis.
Red Flags for Tax Auditors
Here are six flags that may make your tax return prime for an IRS audit.
Estimating the Cost of College
This worksheet can help you estimate the costs of a four-year college program.
Variable Universal Life Insurance
Variable Universal Life is permanent insurance in which the policyholder directs how premiums are invested.
Apps That Help Achieve Goals
If you find it hard to attain personal life goals, there’s an app for that!
Asset Allocation
Consider how your assets are allocated and if that allocation is consistent with your time frame and risk tolerance.
Revising Estate Strategy Assumptions
Estate tax exemptions rules appear to be stabilizing, prompting many to reconsider conventional estate strategies.
Countering Counterfeit Currency
Combating counterfeiting remains core to preserving the integrity of the nation’s money.
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Potential Income from an IRA
Estimate your monthly and annual income from various IRA types.
Estimate Your RMD
Help determine the required minimum distribution from an IRA or other qualified retirement plan.
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.
Disability Income
This calculator estimates your chances of becoming disabled and your potential need for disability insurance.
Assess Your Life Insurance Needs
This calculator estimates how much life insurance you would need to meet your family's needs if you were to die prematurely.
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.
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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.
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
Protecting Those Who Matter Most
The importance of life insurance, how it works, and how much coverage you need.
Keys to Investing for Retirement
There are some key concepts to understand when investing for retirement
Managing Your Lifestyle
Using smart management to get more of what you want and free up assets to invest.
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Should I Invest In REITs?
Are Real Estate Investment Trusts right for your portfolio?
When Do You Need a Will?
When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.
Making Your Tax Bracket Work
Have you explored all your options when it comes to managing your taxable income?
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
What Smart Investors Know
Smart investors take the time to separate emotion from fact.
The Real Cost of a Vacation Home
What if instead of buying that vacation home, you invested the money?