Tactical year-end financial moves to help improve your financial situation

In today’s Marietta Daily Journal, Bil Lako, CFP®, explains that if you own stocks or mutual funds, there are some moves at year-end that might help your financial situation. Read the Article This article is for demonstrative and academic purposes and is meant to provide valuable background information on particular investments, NOT a recommendation to buy.…

Managing the Failure Points

By: Tim O’Pry | Chief Security Officer Over the years (decades), I have been asked for tips on everything from starting a business to the perfunctory cocktail question of, “What do you do?”. Regardless of the question, the answer is the same: I manage failure points. That answer tends to end most casual cocktail conversation…

Will You Get a Refund or Owe for 2018?

Your refund is the amount that your pre-payments (withheld income tax, estimated tax payments, and certain credits) exceed your tax liability, and if the pre-payment also got reduced, you could be in for an unpleasant surprise at tax time. So, why would the pre-payments, particularly withholding, be less? Simply because the current W-4 form on…