Look Beyond Your Financials Retirement is supposed to be fun, right? It’s the prize for your hard work and dedication to your job, family, community, and more. Then why might the idea of or your actual retirement sometimes feel a little bit terrible? You and various members of our team have worked together and done …
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Financial Planning for Retirees
Successful financial panning for retirees is often looked at as the goal of financial planning. However, the planning process does not end there. In fact, once you retire, there are many key events that a good plan should address and unique sets of challenges that go with them. Just today, we had a client comment …
3 Key Principles – Planning for Retirement
We get it. Finances can sometimes feel stressful and complicated. Life is a series of events – some simple, others complex. Planning for retirement is one of the more complex. That’s why we are dedicating a portion of our newsletter to specifically address some of the most pressing retirement planning related topics and concerns for …
Secure Act 2.0 (Webinar)
The SECURE 2.0 Act is now law. The legislation provides a slate of changes that could help strengthen the retirement system—and Americans’ financial readiness for retirement. The law builds on earlier legislation that increased the age at which retirees must take required minimum distributions (RMDs) and allowed workplace saving plans to offer annuities, capping …
Episode 10: Medicare Open Enrollment
Advisor Jill Carr talks with Jamie Segerstrom, a Medicare and Retirement Specialist, about the ins and outs of Medicare and open enrollment. Medicare comes with lots of options, so take a listen to the podcast and find out if any adjustments to your plans might be in order. Jamie Segerstrom became interested in helping other …
Episode 9: Thinking About Downsizing Your Home?
Thinking about downsizing your home when you retire or become an empty nesters? What are the things you should know about the current real estate market? How should you prepare for this kind of housing transition? Jill talks to Kristy Cantleberry, a realtor, about the ins and outs of getting your home ready for sale …
Episode 3: The Secure Act 2.0 & Proposed Changes
The Secure Act 2.0 (HR 2954 Securing a Strong Retirement) has passed in the House and is currently up for discussion in the Senate’s Committee on Finance. If it becomes law, what will it mean for small business owners? The Secure Act 2.0 could spell changes for employers, with changes how 401Ks are administered for full …
Your Financial Review Meeting
Today’s post is a guest blog post from Kim Waldman, who is our Chief Operating Officer at Stephens Wealth Management Group. So, you want to make the most of your financial review meeting, but you aren’t sure how? I totally understand and was in that place myself just a few years back. Following are a …
Tax Refund/Stimulus check?
8 Smart, Adulty things you can do with your Tax Refund/Stimulus check So, you are getting a tax refund. What do you do with it? It’s still COVID times, so many people don’t want to eat out or travel, and you probably shouldn’t just blow it, so here are some things to consider doing with …