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A Primer on Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
Irrevocable life insurance trusts can be important tools that may accomplish a number of estate objectives.
What Smart Investors Know
Smart investors take the time to separate emotion from fact.
Protecting Your Home Against Flood Loss
Protect yourself against the damage that your homeowners policy doesn’t cover.
Budgeting After a Divorce
Divorce is the second most stressful time in a person's life. Here's some tips to get through it.
TIPS for Inflation
If you are concerned about inflation and expect short-term interest rates may increase, TIPS could be worth considering.
Making Sense Of A Home Warranty
Understanding the value of a home warranty.
Will Power
Preparing for the eventual distribution of your assets may not sound enticing. But a will puts the power in your hands.
A Look at Diversification
Diversification is an investment principle designed to manage risk, but it can't prevent against a loss.
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."
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What's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
Historical Inflation
This calculator shows how inflation over the years has impacted purchasing power.
Comparing Mortgage Terms
Estimate the total cost in today's dollars of various mortgage alternatives.
How Compound Interest Works
Use this calculator to better see the potential impact of compound interest on an asset.
Comparing Investments
This calculator compares the net gain of a taxable investment versus a tax-favored one.
Long-Term-Care Needs
Determine your potential long-term care needs and how long your current assets might last.
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5 Smart Investing Strategies
There are some smart strategies that may help you pursue your investment objectives
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
Investment Strategies for Retirement
Investment tools and strategies that can enable you to pursue your retirement goals.
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.
Protecting Those Who Matter Most
The importance of life insurance, how it works, and how much coverage you need.
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The Real Cost of a Vacation Home
What if instead of buying that vacation home, you invested the money?
Jane Bond: Scaling the Ladder
Agent Jane Bond is on the case, uncovering the mystery of bond laddering.
Bridging the Confidence Gap
In the world of finance, the effects of the "confidence gap" can be especially apparent.
Should You Invest in Exchange Traded Funds?
There are hundreds of ETFs available. Should you invest in them?
From Boats to Brokers
From the Dutch East India Company to Wall Street, the stock market has a long and storied history.
Coaches
Coaches have helped you your whole life, in ways big and small. We’d like to be one of them.