What to Do with Remaining 529 Funds
Personal Planning 09/04/2024

Children sometimes thwart our best-laid plans but having extra money in a 529 college-savings plan is a pretty good outcome. Families can end up with leftover college funds for a variety of reasons..

Would You Watch a Boring Movie?
Financial Wellness 08/28/2024

In 2023, Columbia Pictures released Dumb Money – a real life underdog story set in the world of investing.1 The movie follows the exploits of an average guy who invests his life savings in the stock..

What's Your Retirement Personality?
Financial Wellness 08/21/2024

According to research by Drs. Alejandro Murguia and Wade Pfau, there are four main ways people nearing retirement think about money. 1 1. Time-Segmentation Approach The “time-segmentation” approach..

Retirement Planning Checklist: 1 Year Until Retirement
Personal Planning 08/14/2024

When retirement is only a year away, it’s hard to not get excited and start daydreaming of your retirement adventures. But even if you’re convinced you’ve saved enough to retire in a year, you’ve..

Retirement Planning Checklist: 5 Years Until Retirement
News 08/07/2024

The five years before retirement can be critical to your planning. While you can almost see the finish line, there’s still time to revisit and readjust your plan, if needed, refine your goals, and..

Retirement Planning Checklist
Personal Planning 07/31/2024

Kiplinger.com reports that depending on where you are in your journey to retirement, smart retirement planning looks different. Ideally, you should your retirement planning checklist on your first..

Certain Traits that May Lead to More Retirement Savings
Personal Planning 07/24/2024

According to a recent survey by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Syntonig, a behavioral research team concluded people who wind up with more retirement savings tend to share four behavioral..

New Bitcoin ETFs Recently Hit the Market — Are They Worth Buying?
Wealth Management 07/17/2024

The new Bitcoin ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) now make it possible to get exposure to the cryptocurrency by proxy through funds that are traded like stocks on various US Stock Exchanges. Previously..

Tax Planning for Annuities
Personal Planning 07/10/2024

Favorable tax treatment is one of the main reasons for buying an annuity. But what exactly are the tax benefits? And are there any drawbacks? It’s important to know the answers to these questions..