Curious about this hot retirement trend? While it can lead to an early retirement, it does require careful planning, savvy saving and investing habits, and potentially big sacrifices.
If you are 70½ or older and must begin taking annual required minimum distributions, you can use a qualified charitable distribution (QCD) to donate from your IRA and get a tax break, whether you itemize or not.
In this episode of Planning Priorities, Associate Peter Lynch warns about the financial missteps of parenthood and how you can avoid them with a little planning. This article is for demonstrative and academic purposes and is meant to provide valuable background information on particular investments, NOT a recommendation to buy. The investments referenced within this…
If you haven’t given your retirement plan a thorough review within the last 12 months, now may be a good time to do so.
In today’s Marietta Daily Journal, Bil Lako, CFP® explains why he gave a set of clients the advice to consider a cash-out refinance right before they retired.
In this week’s case study, our Experts discuss the desire to pay off one’s house, a common want among those about to retire. They take a look at the math and the psychology behind this “sleep better at night” scenario and then apply the Ten Year Rule to this common situation.
In a 2019 Gallup poll, 25% of Americans age 50 to 64, and 23% of those age 65 and older, said health care costs were their top financial concern. Should you consider an HSA?
A recent survey found that more than half of retirees have retirement planning regrets. Unfortunately, many of these retirees had to cut back on their lifestyles to compensate for financial shortfalls.1 Considering their most common regrets may help you avoid making the same mistakes. Not Saving Enough More than one-third of retirees wish they had…
If you’re retired or close to retiring, then you’ve probably got nothing to worry about — your Social Security benefits will likely be paid to you in the amount you’ve planned on (at least that’s what most of the politicians say). But what about the rest of us? The Media Onslaught Watching the news, listening…
In today’s Marietta Daily Journal, Bil Lako, CFP® explains to those worried about politics affecting the markets that the economic backdrop already in place when impeachment talks begin generally will prevail.
