Retirement

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How a Financial Advisor Helps You Make Progress[Video]

[Video]How a Financial Advisor Helps You Make Progress|   Can you think of someone that has helped you make progress in the past? We all have those people who have helped us grow at some point in our lives. As financial planners that is what we hope to do as well for you.

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Asset Location [Video]

[Video]Asset Location| Today we are going to talk about one of the silent killers of investment performance, taxes.  Taxes are a fact of life and we can’t avoid them forever.  However, we can be strategic about when incurred so that it doesn’t negatively affect our finances any more than necessary.

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Investment Portfolio Rebalancing : Passive vs. Active [Video]

[Video] Investment Portfolio Rebalancing: Passive V.S. Active | One of the most important parts of investing your money for long-term goals such as retirement is to make sure you are rebalancing your portfolios often so they are on track and you are not taking on too much risk or too little risk with your investments.

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Recent SECURE Act Changes In 2020 [Video]

In the last few weeks of 2019, the President signed into a new law the SECURE act. It has quite a few changes for retirees and pre retirees. And we figured this would be worthwhile to bring Steve on and talk through what some of those changes are and what folks need to be looking…

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Income Affects Medicare [Video]

As you near age 65 it’s very common you may be thinking about retiring. And something that comes with that is your health insurance because it was provided, usually by your employer.  And now you are thinking, “How am I going to pay for health, health costs, and health insurance?” This is where Medicare Part…

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Does It Pay To Switch Jobs?

Does It Pay To Switch Jobs? Is it better off from a career standpoint staying at one company long-term or switching jobs occasionally?

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