Everyone pictures retirement differently. For some, it’s the opportunity to travel the world and experience new things. For others, it’s helping with the grandkids and staying close to home. No matter how you picture your…
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In a dynamic financial environment filled with fanciful terms like IPO and arbitrage, it’s easy for the more plain-vanilla variety of investments to be overlooked or even forgotten. Such is the case with municipal bonds…
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Most hard-working Americans grimace at the thought of April 15th each and every year. No one likes to pay taxes, and yet, despite the constant bickering coming from our nation’s capital, our tax code perpetually…
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Turn on a business report on any given day, and you’re likely to hear about the daily undulations of the stock market. While keeping track of stock appreciation is vital to any portfolio, it’s not…
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At first glance, your account statement might look like it’s written in a foreign language. With terminologies like large-cap, small-cap, emerging markets, and fixed income, it can feel like a mysterious veil surrounds even simple…
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Do you find yourself behind the eight ball when reviewing your retirement plan? Have you been living paycheck-to-paycheck, raising a family, or working on getting a business off the ground? The first thing you need…
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Whether it’s called a 401(k), 403(b), 457(d), or any other variety of employer-sponsored retirement plans, most people are aware of the basics involved in investing for their retirement through a workplace plan. However, given our…
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Some old sayings stand the test of time, and for a good reason – they never lose relevance, no matter how much society evolves. In other words, when your parents told you to be aware…
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In 1974, a remarkable set of legislation called ERISA was passed that completely overhauled America’s pension and retirement framework. One of the more transformative components of ERISA has turned out to be the Individual Retirement…
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Have you ever devoted so much time and effort into planning a party that you lost sight of what the party was even for in the first place? Like it or not, such things simply…
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