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Inflation and Your Portfolio
Even low inflation rates can pose a threat to investment returns.
The Half Million Dollar Baby
The true cost of raising a child may be far more than you expect.
Understanding the Alternate Valuation Date
Executors can value the estate on the date of death, or on its six-month anniversary —the “Alternate Valuation Date."
Insurance Needs Assessment: When You're Newly Married
Marriage changes everything, including your insurance needs.
Choosing a Business Structure
Entrepreneurs all face the same question, “Which business structure should I adopt?”
Insuring Your Business With a Buy/Sell Agreement
It may help your business be better prepared in the event of the death of a principal or key employee.
Bitcoin 101
Bitcoin has emerged as a digital currency that exists virtually, making it different in fundamental ways.
Red Flags for Tax Auditors
Here are six flags that may make your tax return prime for an IRS audit.
What If You Get Audited?
The chances of an IRS audit aren't that high. And being audited does not necessarily imply that the IRS suspects wrongdoing.
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Doubling Your Money
This calculator demonstrates the power of compound interest.
Impact of Taxes and Inflation
Estimate the potential impact taxes and inflation can have on the purchasing power of an investment.
What Is My Current Cash Flow?
Assess whether you are running “in the black” or “in the red” each month.
Inflation & Retirement
Estimate how much income may be needed at retirement to maintain your standard of living.
What Is the Dividend Yield?
This calculator helps determine your pre-tax and after-tax dividend yield on a particular stock.
Lifetime of Earnings
Estimate how much you have the potential to earn during your working years.
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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.
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.
Keys to Investing for Retirement
There are some key concepts to understand when investing for retirement
Tax Management Strategies
Learn more about taxes, tax-favored investing, and tax strategies.
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Retirement Redefined
Around the country, attitudes about retirement are shifting.
Interest Rates: How Low Can They Go?
The question used to be, “How low can interest rates go?” Now it's, “How long can rates remain at their historic low levels?”
The Real Cost of a Vacation Home
What if instead of buying that vacation home, you invested the money?
Coaches
Coaches have helped you your whole life, in ways big and small. We’d like to be one of them.
Should I Invest in Gold?
Learning more about gold and its history may help you decide whether it has a place in your portfolio.
Do You Feel Lucky?
Recent changes in estate tax laws could affect the strategy you have in place.