How to Stay Committed to Your Financial Goals

Reading Time: 2 minutes Setting healthy financial goals is critical. Even more important is staying committed to those financial goals. Keeping yourself committed to your goals may be difficult, especially when times may be financially tough. But by staying on track...

Retirement Plans and Estate Planning

Reading Time: 3 minutes When you die, what will happen to your retirement plan benefits? In general, your retirement plan benefits pass to the beneficiaries you designate on the plan beneficiary designation form. Your benefits will generally be subject to estate tax...

Creating a Business Plan for Small Businesses

Reading Time: 2 minutes Your business plan is an important part of creating a business and a critical tool for drawing in lenders and investors. If you’re thinking about launching a small business or if you want to take your small business in a new direction, a...

Retirement Planning: To Roth or Not to Roth

Reading Time: 2 minutes When saving for retirement, it often makes sense to contribute to employer-sponsored retirement plans to take advantage of any available employer match opportunities. However, not everyone has access to an employer-sponsored plan. Even if you...

Are You Accounting For Capital Gains In Your Return?

Reading Time: 2 minutes An issue that is overlooked by many people is the tax piece of a portfolio. Very few advisors will discuss an after-tax return because they will have to account for the inefficiencies that we see impact many client’s portfolios. What are the...

Estate Planning for Your Digital Assets

Reading Time: 4 minutes What will happen to your Facebook account when you die? What about all your photos shared on social media, your texts with loved ones, or documents on cloud-storage systems? In just the two-year period from 2012 to 2014, humans produced more...