You may want to exploit these strategic opportunities. Will the Bush-era tax cuts expire next year? We may not have an answer to that question for several months. After the November elections, you could see them extended once again. Nothing is certain: with the daunting financing...
WEEKLY QUOTE“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” - Soren Kierkegaard WEEKLY TIP If you’re shopping for a homeowner policy, feel free to ask for a discount. If you can demonstrate that you are taking steps to reduce risk, you may be...
WEEKLY QUOTE“Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.” - Edward Steichen WEEKLY TIP Most people save too little for retirement. Consider bumping your retirement plan contribution up to 10%-15% of your pay if you can. WEEKLY RIDDLE A common English word refers to...
WEEKLY QUOTE“Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” - Sara Blakely WEEKLY TIP Each day brings breaking news; beware of abruptly altering your long-range financial strategy in response. WEEKLY RIDDLE You have been...
WEEKLY QUOTE“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” - John D. Rockefeller WEEKLY TIP If you are 60 now, there is a reasonable chance that you may live into your eighties or nineties. So with longevity in mind, plan retirement with wealth...
WEEKLY QUOTE“Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it is many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.” - Scott Berkun WEEKLY TIP Sometimes filing separately can reduce a married couple’s federal tax burden. If one spouse has large itemized deductions or if both spouses...
If you are injured or ill, it could help you keep afloat financially. If you can’t work and pay your bills, how are you going to cope? Let’s say an injury or illness prevents you from doing your job. How do you deal with the lost...
Two-thirds of us have no financial plan. 64% of Americans have no financial strategy at all. That’s right – no plan whatsoever to build wealth or keep it. That finding comes from the 2009 National Consumer Survey on Personal Finance conducted by the Certified Financial Planner...
While the idea of retirement has changed, certain financial assumptions haven’t. We’ve all heard about the “new retirement”, the mix of work and play that many of us assume we will have in our lives one day. We do not expect “retirement” to be all leisure....
Two-thirds of us have no financial plan for retirement. 64% of Americans have no retirement financial strategy at all. That’s right – no plan whatsoever to build wealth or keep it . That finding comes from the 2009 National Consumer Survey on Personal Finance conducted by...