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A Bucket Plan to Go with Your Bucket List
A bucket plan can help you be better prepared for a comfortable retirement.
When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
Making Sense Of A Home Warranty
Understanding the value of a home warranty.
The Economic Journey of Your Morning Coffee
Few contemplate the complex journey that brought their coffee from farm to kitchen table.
How to Appeal Your Property Taxes
For homeowners who think their property taxes are too high, there are ways to appeal.
Tips for Finding Care for Your Special-Needs Child
The care of special-needs children continues into their adult years, and may survive the passing of their parents.
Understanding the Alternate Valuation Date
Executors can value the estate on the date of death, or on its six-month anniversary —the “Alternate Valuation Date."
A Brief Guide To Condo Insurance
Important items to consider when purchasing condo insurance.
Assess Life Insurance Needs
How to help determine life insurance needs to provide for your family after you pass away.
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Saving for Retirement
This calculator can help you estimate how much you may need to save for retirement.
Comparing Mortgage Terms
Estimate the total cost in today's dollars of various mortgage alternatives.
What's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
A Look at Systematic Withdrawals
This calculator may help you estimate how long funds may last given regular withdrawals.
Roth 401(k) vs. Traditional 401(k)
This calculator compares employee contributions to a Roth 401(k) and a traditional 401(k).
How Compound Interest Works
Use this calculator to better see the potential impact of compound interest on an asset.
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An Inside Look at Retirement Living
A number of questions and concerns need to be addressed to help you better prepare for retirement living.
Protecting Those Who Matter Most
The importance of life insurance, how it works, and how much coverage you need.
Keys to Investing for Retirement
There are some key concepts to understand when investing for retirement
5 Smart Investing Principles
Principles that can help create a portfolio designed to pursue investment goals.
Managing Your Lifestyle
Using smart management to get more of what you want and free up assets to invest.
Long-Term-Care Protection Strategies
The chances of needing long-term care, its cost, and strategies for covering that cost.
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Should You Invest in Exchange Traded Funds?
There are hundreds of ETFs available. Should you invest in them?
Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
Tuning Your Social Security Benefit
When should you take your Social Security benefit?
To Buy or Not to Buy
The decision whether to buy or rent a home may have long-term implications.
The Power of Compound Interest
Learn how to harness the power of compound interest for your investments.
A Fruitful Retirement: Social Security Benefit
Taking your Social Security benefits at the right time may help maximize your benefit.