Understanding Today’s Financial Environment
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Helpful Content
Are Alternative Investments Right for You?
With alternative investments, it’s critical to sort through the complexity.
Home Mortgage Deduction
Use this calculator to assess the potential benefits of a home mortgage deduction.
Inflation & Retirement
Estimate how much income may be needed at retirement to maintain your standard of living.
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.
What to Look for in an Extended-Care Policy
Here’s a list of 8 questions to ask that may help you better understand the costs and benefits of extended-care insurance.
Insuring Your Business Against Cyber Liability
90% of small businesses in the U.S. don't protect their data from cyber attacks. Is your business at risk?
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."
Tax & Estate Strategies for Married LGBTQ+ Couples
Learn how to maximize your tax and estate strategy as a married member of the LGBTQ+ community.
U.S. Personal Savings Rate
What can be learned from the savings rate?
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Should I Pay Off Debt or Invest?
This calculator will help determine whether you should invest funds or pay down debt.
Lifetime of Earnings
Estimate how much you have the potential to earn during your working years.
Taxable vs. Tax-Deferred Savings
Use this calculator to compare the future value of investments with different tax consequences.
Federal Income Tax
Use this calculator to estimate your income tax liability along with average and marginal tax rates.
Disability Income
This calculator estimates your chances of becoming disabled and your potential need for disability insurance.
Should I Buy or Lease an Auto?
This calculator compares the financial impact of leasing versus buying an automobile.
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Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
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.
Long-Term-Care Protection Strategies
The chances of needing long-term care, its cost, and strategies for covering that cost.
An Inside Look at Retirement Living
A number of questions and concerns need to be addressed to help you better prepare for retirement living.
Your Cash Flow Statement
A presentation about managing money: using it, saving it, and even getting credit.
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Retirement Accounts When You Change Your Job
This video discusses issues related to your retirement accounts when you move on from your job.
Working With A Financial Professional
A financial professional is an invaluable resource to help you untangle the complexities of whatever life throws at you.
Coaches
Coaches have helped you your whole life, in ways big and small. We'd like to be one of them.
The Latte Lie and Other Myths
Check out this video to begin separating fact from fiction.
Risk Tolerance: What’s Your Style?
Learn about what risk tolerance really means in this helpful and insightful video.
It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
All about how missing the best market days (or the worst!) might affect your portfolio.