With everything that goes on in our daily lives, it’s easy to forget about our retirement plan accounts which are setup to automatically help save for the future. Below are a few questions to consider to ensure your retirement accounts are up to date. Have you created personalized login credentials to view your retirement account? […]
Today more than ever, it is important to monitor your financial activity and credit reports. Fraudsters are continually finding new ways to steal data and make fraudulent purchases. Thankfully, there’s a few simple – and best of all, free – ways to help keep yourself secure. Leverage Technology Most banks, credit cards and lenders allow […]
Overview Bill Love, of RTD Financial, and Rob Croner, of CCI Consulting, explore the following: How to get in touch with your own financial reality (02:56) Can you afford to stop working? Can you pivot to a new career? (06:11) How to sustain assets for the years to come (08:22) Finding your identity in retirement […]
Medicare has been around since 1965 and although it has grown topsy-turvy thanks to multiple Congresses, the program can be easily understood once you remove all the distracting information. Usually, once people are on Medicare, they’re left wondering what was all the fuss about? The apparent complexity arises from the alphabet soup of descriptive letters […]
As we head into the anniversary of the start of quarantine, many of us are looking forward to life returning to “normal”. We miss seeing friends and family, eating out at restaurants, and of course traveling! Although planning vacations is half the fun, we’re ready to go from planning to actually taking the vacations! Planning […]
Joining finances represents a critical juncture for financial decision making that has a lasting impact on a couple’s future financial position and impacts the future stress and tension money can have on a relationship. Here are considerations for couples combining finances . Sharing a Macro Perspective (Seeing the Same Big Picture): Money. It’s one of […]
Before you clear off your dining room table, putting away those tax documents, take this opportunity to organize your financial records. Whether you prefer a tabbed binder or a digital folder, taking the time to pull together and annually update your financial information will be beneficial in the long run. Not only will it make […]
On December 20th, a significant piece of retirement planning legislation was quietly passed into law, incorporated into the spending and tax extenders bill. The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement (SECURE) Act is focused on aiding Americans’ ability to save for retirement. It seeks to address flaws in the system which have contributed to the […]
Last year I wrote about a new regulation introduced by the Department of Labor (DOL) referred to as The Fiduciary Rule. In its simplest form, the rule was to require every financial advisor to act in their clients’ best interest. The rule pertained only to retirement plan participants and IRA investors, although the intent was […]