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  • Are You Making the Most of Your HSA?
    A health savings account, or HSA, is one of the most flexible and valuable savings accounts available to U. S. citizens. Used properly, an HSA can save you a lot of money on taxes and ensure you're prepared to handle an emergency medical bill or medical expenses in retirement. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people
  • How small businesses can help employees prepare for retirement
    Employees' retirement plans took a hit as the pandemic forced workers to focus on immediate financial concerns rather than long-term savings, but for
  • Five Tips for Becoming a Financially Successful Couple
    Having helped hundreds of couples retire, while also recently celebrating five years of marriage, we’ve learned a thing or two about navigating
  • 5 Strategies for 40-Somethings Who Are Way Behind on Retirement Savings
    There are a lot of scary retirement charts that tell you how much you should have saved for retirement. One commonly cited figure by Fidelity Investments says that by the time you're 40, you should have three times your annual income set aside. But let's face it: That number is laughably unrealistic for a lot of people
  • 8 Steps To Take If You Lose Your Job Because Of Coronavirus
    These are crazy times that we are living in as the current epidemic is shaking the world. We’ve now seen jobless claims top 30 million over the last six weeks – many of them due to the novel coronavirus. In case you’re keeping track, that’s more layoffs than jobs created since the Great Recession. Perhaps you’re newly
  • 5 smart pieces of money advice financial planners will tell you for free
    If there's anyone you should turn to for honest and objective money advice, it's a financial planner. Certified financial planners have a fiduciary
  • Bucket Budgeting: An Easy Way To Manage Cash Flow
    Like dieting or exercise, budgeting requires consistency to produce results. But budgeting can be difficult to make into a habit, as it can feel
  • A good credit score matters. Here’s how to build and improve yours
    Thanks to record-high inflation and rising interest rates, it’s becoming tougher to keep debt at reasonable levels and maintain good credit. In fact,
  • What To Do With Excess Funds In Your Child’s 529 Plan—A Good Problem To Have
    What do you do with "extra" funds in your child's 529 Education Savings Plan after they've finished college, or gone in a different professional direction?