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Like gardening or working out, tax planning is one of those activities where you get out of it what you put into it. Plenty of us have a weight bench gathering dust in the garage that hasn’t gotten us into any better shape, or a plot in the backyard that just won’t grow anything because …
Continue Reading! Healthcare And Retirement Planning
Published by Christina Hester Snyder, Associate Partner and Wealth Advisor When thinking about retirement planning, it is easy to get lost in investment math. Percentages, rates, yields, earnings, and returns are words you hear again and again until they lose all meaning.
The Basics Of Long-Term Care And How To Plan For It
Published by Mark Ring, Managing Partner, Founding Partner, and Wealth Advisor You’ve spent decades carefully planning and saving. You’ve made sacrifices, you’ve invested, and you’ve done everything within your power to secure a strong financial future in retirement. But maybe you ha …
5 Things to Watch in the First Quarter of 2021
Have you found yourself officing in a room with a bunk bed? Do you realize you’re going to the store in your pajamas and never leaving your car? Does going to the movies mean going to the living room to turn on the TV? Quarantine changed the world almost overnight, and the adjustment is so …
17 Things You Need to Know About the New Stimulus Package
Congress passed the new $900 billion economic relief and spending bill on Monday. While most of the focus has been on a second round of relief payments to most Americans, there is plenty more in the 5,000-plus pages of the stimulus package.
How to Make Sense of Retirement and Estate Finance
Retirement is far off until it isn’t. This chapter of life can sneak up on just about anyone, and we do ourselves a favor to be as prepared as we can. Like anything involving the government, finances can be confusing, with different tax treatments, contribution limits, beneficiary rules and more.
Estate Planning for the Family Farm and Your Legacy
As a financial advisor who’s spent her career in the midwest, I’ve worked with more farm families than I can count. From buying new expensive equipment to riding out the drought years, there can be millions in play even on small family operations. Estate planning – splitting up the land bet …