Roth IRA Contributions [Video]

STEPHEN SMALENBERGER, EA ® So no matter what you read, what you listen to, you probably have heard max out your 401K. Put away money into retirement accounts. Max out maybe even your Roth IRA contributions. That’s all good advice, if you take it completely blind. But how many times have we taken advice blind, only to find after the fact that…

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Skills That Are Always In Demand [Video]

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How often do you daydream in your head a job that you think would be really cool? Or maybe you dreamed about being a professional athlete? And maybe some of you had the skills that you could have done that. But you just missed an opportunity, or didn’t quite make the cut. There are things…

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Summer School

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Summer School School is out for the year and your summer fun has probably already started! Remember before school ended that the teachers were telling you to keep reading or practicing something over the summer? There are statistics that show how important it is for kids to continue reading every day even during the summer…

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It’s Not Typical: This Recent Financial High

Are you riding this week’s financial high? Remember these second chances we’ve discussed that you’re being given to make any allocation changes necessary to adjust your risk for volatility you don’t like to see. And maybe you’ve seen the past few days of gains the market has continued in. With the market near it’s high,…

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