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Five “Red Lights” of Retirement Planning

As you near retirement, it’s natural to start checking off the list of ducks you’ve put in a row to prepare for retirement. There are tools everywhere that will give you your “Retirement Checklist” or...

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The Top 4 Free Budgeting Apps

These days, people literally hold their finances in their hands. Whether it’s making purchases, accepting small business payments, or simply checking account balances, personal wealth has gone mobile....

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Optimizing Your Social Security Payout

In 2014, social security benefits made up 39% of the income of the elderly (on average), totaling nearly $863 billion**. As more and more baby boomers approach retirement age, that total will increase...

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Budgeting for Charitable Giving Can Increase Your Happiness

Tithing, or giving 10 percent of one's income or crops to a religious entity, is an ancient practice. In fact, the word "tithe" comes from a derivative of the number 10. Even if you aren't religious,...

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Borrowing From Your 401(k): A Financial Sin

When we put money into our retirement accounts we do so for a specific purpose: retirement. All the money you have funneled into your 401(k) is supposed to buy you that dream retirement lifestyle you...

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Building Your Nest Egg

There are many different approaches you may take for planning ahead for your retirement, and building your nest egg takes time, patience and above all, strategy. Let’s go over the main financial...

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Retirement Rules: The Guide

It’s easy to look at retirement as a long-term vacation. After decades of working it certainly comes as a welcome break, but one of the biggest problems most retirees find themselves faced with is...

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Considerations when Choosing Your Executor

While no one would likely characterize drafting a will as an exciting task, it certainly is an essential one. After all, over the course of your life you've built a unique legacy — one that is marked...

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Market Timing: Risk vs. Reward

For first-time investors, putting money into the stock market may seem like an intimidating task. You may be asking yourself, what happens if you put your money in at the wrong time? How do you know...

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Fast Forward: How Retirement is Changing

Predicting the future is a rough sort of business to find yourself in, particularly with a world that’s begun changing more and more rapidly with every passing day. Unfortunately a lot of people on all...

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The Cost of Your Family Tree

Planning your finances for retirement is a challenge and it seems to only become more challenging as time moves on. When people look at the roadblocks in the way of their retirement, fingers are often...

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Realistic Retirement: Leveraging expectations with reality.

Our culture builds a certain degree of optimism around the concept of retirement—people “can’t wait to retire” and it’s a constant goal to be financially stable enough to do so. A lot of recent and...

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3 Steps to Prevent and Avoid Fights Over Estates

A death in the family is traumatic and stressful, and something which all affected must come to terms with in their own way and in their own time. Unfortunately, it’s also usually the time during which...

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Longevity Rules: Why long-term retirement planning is more important for women

Retirement planning is one of the most important guarantees an individual can make to ensure that their retirement goes smoothly and with as few interruptions as possible. However, women are having to...

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Estate Planning: Who Takes Care of Your Pet when You Can't?

Fido or Kitty has been your constant companion for years. He's been there to share your triumphs and comforted you when you're feeling blue. He's as precious to you as any human friend or relative. But...

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Retirement Planning At Any Age

We hear it every day: “I should have started saving sooner”, “I wish I would have known this when I was young”, “If only I could go back in time.”  As people approach retirement they often look back at...

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Five “Red Lights” of Retirement Planning

As you near retirement, it’s natural to start checking off the list of ducks you’ve put in a row to prepare for retirement.  There are tools everywhere that will give you your “Retirement Checklist” or...

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Image may be NSFW.
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The Top 4 Free Budgeting Apps

These days, people literally hold their finances in their hands. Whether it’s making purchases, accepting small business payments, or simply checking account balances, personal wealth has gone mobile....

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Optimizing Your Social Security Payout

In 2014, social security benefits made up 39% of the income of the elderly (on average), totaling nearly $863 billion**.  As more and more baby boomers approach retirement age, that total will increase...

View Article

Budgeting for Charitable Giving Can Increase Your Happiness

Tithing, or giving 10 percent of one's income or crops to a religious entity, is an ancient practice. In fact, the word "tithe" comes from a derivative of the number 10. Even if you aren't religious,...

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