Estimated read time: 3 minutes By Philip Alford, CFP® 401(k) Plans: What’s In it for The Business Owner? Why Starting an Employer Sponsored Plan May Make Sense for Your Business Looking for a way to attract and retain great talent? What about more ways to add value...
Passive Income: Myth or Fact? By: Cliff Taylor, CFP® Estimated read time: 3 minutes 5 Reasons Passive Income is Not What It Seems We have all heard and read articles claiming that one can double or triple their money by taking advantage of passive income streams....
Estimated Read Time: 2-3 Minutes A good professional provides important guidance and insight through the years. What kind of role can a financial professional play for an investor? The answer: a very important one. While the value of such a relationship is hard to...
Estimated read time: 3 mins Turn your intent into a commitment In personal finance, as with most areas of life, goals help us to grow and achieve more. Here are a couple reasons why we think each family should have financial goals put in place. Goals give you focus To...
Estimated Read Time: 3 Minutes What are the keys in planning to grow wealthy together? When you marry, your financial life changes – and your approach to managing your money may change as well. To succeed as a couple, you need to also succeed financially. The good...
Estimated read time: 3 Minutes Behaviors worth changing for a more promising future. Do bad money habits constrain your financial progress? Many people fall into the same financial behavior patterns year after year. If you sometimes succumb to these financial...
Estimated read time: 2-3 mins Think about these matters before you leave work for the last time. Retirement planning is not entirely financial. Your degree of happiness in your “second act” may depend on some factors you cannot quantify. Here are a few of those...
Estimated read time: 1-2 minutes Why should you periodically review beneficiary designations? Your beneficiary choices may need to change with the times. When did you open your first IRA? When did you buy your life insurance policy? Are you still living in the same...
Are you about to buy life insurance? Shop carefully. Make your choice with insight from someone who understands the ins-and-outs of life insurance, as it may help you avoid some of these all-too-common missteps. Buying the first policy you see. Anyone interested in...
Estimated Read Time: 2-3 Minutes When you ask millennial's, what is your number one financial goal in life, most will answer, "To be a millionaire" or something similarly vague and lofty. What most millennials fail to understand is that it can be hard to become a...
A local auto dealership named Bill Gatton does their ads on TV about trading with them and ends with a question, "Why in the world would you not?" We ask that as we think of BRI? What is BRI? BRI stands for Biblically Responsible Investing. BRI is investing that...
Estimated read time: 3-4 mins What kind of retirement do you think you'll have? Your outlook may influence your financial outcome. Qualitatively speaking, what if the success or failure of your retirement begins with your perception of retirement? A whole field of...
Estimated Read Time: 3-4 Minutes If you itemize, you should note the reduced medical deduction threshold for 2018. This year, you can deduct qualified medical expenses exceeding 7.5% of your adjusted gross income. Next year, the threshold for the medical...
Estimated Read Time: 2-3 Minutes As you approach retirement, it may be time to pay more attention to investment risk. If you are an experienced investor, you have probably fine-tuned your portfolio through the years in response to market cycles or in pursuit of a...
Estimated Read Time: 2-3 Minutes These private income contracts do have potential flaws. It may not be good to have too many (or any) of your eggs in an annuity basket. Here are some important factors for you to consider. Fundamentally, an annuity contract means...