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Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
Social Security Benefits: How Much Will I Receive
Calculating your potential Social Security benefit is a three-step process.
When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
Stop Wasting Money
One way to find money is to examine your current spending habits and eliminate money wasters.
Assess Life Insurance Needs
How to help determine life insurance needs to provide for your family after you pass away.
Spotting Credit Trouble
The wise use of credit is a critical skill. These 10 questions will help you assess your skill level.
Problems with Probate
Probate can be a completely public process, or it can be managed to include as little information as possible.
Please Leave Home Without It
Concerns over identity theft continue to grow, especially with data breaches at major companies and financial institutions.
Will Power
Preparing for the eventual distribution of your assets may not sound enticing. But a will puts the power in your hands.
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Inflation & Retirement
Estimate how much income may be needed at retirement to maintain your standard of living.
What Is My Current Net Worth?
Use this calculator to estimate your net worth by adding up your assets and subtracting your liabilities.
My Retirement Savings
Estimate how long your retirement savings may last using various monthly cash flow rates.
What Is My Life Expectancy?
Estimate how many years you may need retirement assets or how long to provide income to a surviving spouse or children.
Tax Freedom Day
Assess how many days you'll work to pay your federal tax liability.
Paying Off a Credit Card
Enter various payment options and determine how long it may take to pay off a credit card.
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Retirement Plan Distributions
There are a number of ways to withdraw money from a qualified retirement plan.
Keys to Investing for Retirement
There are some key concepts to understand when investing for retirement
An Inside Look at Retirement Living
A number of questions and concerns need to be addressed to help you better prepare for retirement living.
Protecting Those Who Matter Most
The importance of life insurance, how it works, and how much coverage you need.
Managing Your Lifestyle
Using smart management to get more of what you want and free up assets to invest.
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
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Events on Wall Street
Can successful investors predict changes in the markets? Some can but others miss the market’s signals.
To Buy or Not to Buy
The decision whether to buy or rent a home may have long-term implications.
Should You Invest in Exchange Traded Funds?
There are hundreds of ETFs available. Should you invest in them?
Can Election Results Predict the Market?
How do the markets usually react to elections? Was the 2016 election any different?
The Other Sure Thing
Though we don’t like to think about it, all of us will make an exit sometime. Are you prepared?
The Richest Man in Babylon
In good times and bad, consistently saving a percentage of your income is a sound financial practice.