Financial Planning

Your Destination Matters: Aligning Your Finances with Your Future Goals

Your Destination Matters: Aligning Your Finances with Your Future Goals

It can be tough to plan your financial future in a world filled with obstacles and opportunities. But the terrain only worsens in the absence of well-crafted goals. If you don’t know how much money you’ll need, when, and why, you end up chasing after the latest fads (buying high) or fleeing market risks (selling low).

Golden Opportunities: Taking Advantage of the 2024 Changes to Retirement and Savings Rules

Golden Opportunities: Taking Advantage of the 2024 Changes to Retirement and Savings Rules

As the SECURE Act 2.0's provisions gradually come into effect, this landmark retirement legislation brings about a series of significant changes in 2024. From adjustments in tax brackets and retirement contribution limits to shifts in estate and gift tax exemptions, we offer a clear overview of the key updates in this article.

The 529 to Roth IRA Rollover Opportunity in 2024

The 529 to Roth IRA Rollover Opportunity in 2024

Thanks to updates in the SECURE 2.0 Act concerning retirement and education savings, 2024 brings the newfound flexibility to repurpose unused 529 funds for retirement savings—an option that wasn’t previously available.

4 Financial Best Practices for Year End 2023

4 Financial Best Practices for Year End 2023

If your wealth were a garden, which actions would deserve your attention? Here are our four favorite items worth tending to as 2024 approaches… plus a thoughtful reflection on how to make the most of the remaining year.  

Maximize Your Savings: A Guide to Mid-Year Tax Planning in 8 Steps

Maximize Your Savings: A Guide to Mid-Year Tax Planning in 8 Steps

As the year reaches its midpoint, it's an opportune time for mid-year tax planning to potentially reduce your tax liability, maximize your retirement income, and enhance your overall financial well-being. In this 8-step guide, we explore key strategies and considerations to get you started.

Banking on Safety: How Your Assets Are Protected During Times of Uncertainty

Banking on Safety: How Your Assets Are Protected During Times of Uncertainty

It’s hard, and often counterproductive to comment about breaking news while it’s still moving through the proverbial grinder, which is why we usually don’t do so. However, it’s worth commenting on the recent banking turmoil, and how this applies to your investments to aide in rational decision-making.

4 Ways to Apply the 80/20 Rule to Your Financial Pursuits

4 Ways to Apply the 80/20 Rule to Your Financial Pursuits

Following the Pareto Principle (commonly known as the 80/20 rule) which suggests that 80% of an outcome is often the result of just 20% of the effort you put into it—Here are 4 financial best practices that pack a lot of value per “pound.”

Six Financial Best Practices for Year-End 2022

Six Financial Best Practices for Year-End 2022

To say the least, there’s been plenty of political, financial, and economic action this year—from rising interest rates, to elevated inflation, to ongoing market turmoil. How will all the excitement translate into annual performance in our investment portfolios? While we wait to find out, here are six action items worth tending to before 2022 is a wrap.

9 Steps to Regaining Confidence in Your Financial Future, Both During and After Divorce.

9 Steps to Regaining Confidence in Your Financial Future, Both During and After Divorce.

Divorce is one of the most difficult life transitions to navigate — and for those who did not handle the finances in their marriage, it can be difficult know where to begin.

Investing in I Bonds: Making Lemonade Out of Inflationary Lemons

Investing in I Bonds: Making Lemonade Out of Inflationary Lemons

Is rising inflation souring your financial plans? Outside of your core portfolio, there is a potentially sweet deal for turning some of inflation’s lemons into lemonade. We’re talking about U.S. Series I Saving Bonds (“I Bonds”).

Healing What Hurts: The Essential Role of a Financial Therapist

Healing What Hurts: The Essential Role of a Financial Therapist

As financial advisors, we help people attain financial independence. Usually, our personalized planning conversations are enough to help them establish a healthy, happy relationship with their money. However sometimes, we uncover bigger pain points we need to move past before we can move on.

It’s Time to Get Reacquainted with Survivorship Life Insurance

It’s Time to Get Reacquainted with Survivorship Life Insurance

With the $3.5 trillion dollar infrastructure bill facing a reconciliation vote, high income earners and the ultra wealthy are clearly in the crosshairs of tax hikes, putting the need for estate liquidity back on the forefront of transfer tax planning.

Is Inflation Haunting Your Financial Dreams? Part 1: What We Know

Is Inflation Haunting Your Financial Dreams? Part 1: What We Know

Has the specter of inflation got you spooked? Recent headlines are filled with sightings. In this two-part series, let’s take a closer look at what to make of all the commentary, and what you can do about it as an investor.