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A Case study in Cash Reserves
Every investor should evaluate their cash reserves before selecting an investment/s. Integrating your cash and investments together into a financial plan can be as simple or complex as your life requires. Let’s look at three different investors at varies life...
Finding Your Why: An Exercise to Clarify Priorities in Turbulent Times
There’s a sea of information for investors to sort through today. Our opinions and experiences shape how we handle money. As ideas become organized in our head, we establish a foundation from where decisions can be made. Over time, we manage new information and...
How To Control Your Cash Flow (So That It Doesn’t Control You)
Regardless of your age, cash flow determines your choices. Everyday decisions such as what we spend, where we live, and the destination of our next vacation are all cash flow based. Cash flow arrives from various sources including full-time employment, a side...
Understanding the Difference Between Risk and Volatility
Let’s clear up the confusion between risk and volatility when investing. Risks are real and consistently evolving. This requires an investor to periodically re-assess their exposure and comfort level. Examples include liquidity risk which is failing to set aside...
What is Your Definition of Enough? Quantifying Your Health and Wealth
Managing financial decisions are just as important as maintaining your health. Both require you to be intentional with your time and resources. Our happiness with our current dollars and fitness can often be tied to who we compare ourselves to. It’s natural, at the...
Pretax vs. After Tax vs. Roth – What’s Best for Your Retirement?
Tax diversification plays a key role in retiring successfully and staying successfully retired. Investors who embrace this approach while accumulating their wealth will have more choices at retirement. A challenge all investors face is the ever-changing tax...
Six changes arriving in 2023 to 401k, IRA, and 529 plan
SECURE 2.0 was signed into law December 29, 2022. Employer retirement plan, IRA, and 529 education plan changes are creating more choices for investors. Integrating these updates into your financial plan may allow you to make better, less reactive decisions...
Financial Planning Lessons from Your Grocery List
A grocery list and financial planning may have more in common than you think. Both are created with purpose by outlining necessities with some degree of time sensitivity. Both allow you to get more done instead of organizing items in your head. Consider these tips...
Suggested Reading
Try a new approach to your goal setting this January, read this book; Atomic Habits, An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear. New year’s resolutions are good, but often lose their stickiness as life gets busy. Many have a...
Strategies
In two weeks, a new year begins. What financial strategies can assist investors in getting closer to what they want? Knowing what you want to accomplish and when before investing a dollar is valuable. The difficulty is many don’t have the answers they need when...
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