529 Education Savings Plans are a meaningful topic for parents, grandparents, and anyone else who wants to help a student they know with the cost of higher education. To help you learn more about these accounts and the tax-advantaged savings opportunity they provide, we have gathered the free resources below: Two-Page PDF: 529 College Savings …Read More
Depending on how close you are to your planned retirement date, the above question will be either frighteningly urgent, or so far in the distance that you won’t be able to focus on it for any length of time at all. But what I have noticed most about this question now that I am in …Read More
Financial Planning answers many significant life questions. For example: How much do I need to save for my daughter’s education? Can I afford to buy a home? When can I retire? In my 27 years as a Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®), the answers to those questions and others produce highly emotional and strategic impacts. Knowing …Read More
The three biggest financial commitments that most people will make in their lifetimes are buying a home, raising children, and retiring. Of the three, the cost of raising children might be the most surprising. While the cost of a home is easily found on websites such as Zillow.com, the cost of raising children is hidden …Read More
If you read financial planning textbooks, you might be left with the impression that people report to the financial planner’s office to begin the planning process as soon as they land their first job. However, that’s not how it usually happens. Instead, people need a sense of urgency to get started. This often comes after …Read More
Most of you know by now that, as of January, I began cutting back my hours at Bell and moving into a career transition most commonly known as “Semi-Retirement.” I have to say, it has been smoothing out a bit since the first quarter of the year, which is good news. Don’t get me wrong, …Read More
At a 2010 lecture discussing the financial crisis of 2007-2009 – Navigating the New Normal in Industrialized Countries – Mohamed El-Erian (now chief economic advisor at Allianz) said, “The crisis was not a mere flesh wound. The crisis cut to the bone.” Once you start cutting bone, you change the structure of whatever is being …Read More
