Justin Wagner, AIF®, Client Relationship Manager – Retirement Services for Henssler Financial, illustrates how a pre-tax contribution to your 401(k) for your retirement will affect your take home paycheck.
Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, teams up with Managing Associate D.J. Barker, CWS®, and Senior Financial Planner Adam Stadalius, CFP®, to help a retired couple realize that they’re not in financial trouble just because inflation and interest rates have skyrocketed since they left the workforce. They explain how a financial plan works to accommodate economic changes.
The annual Retirement Confidence Survey found that workers’ confidence took a substantial hit: Just 20% of respondents felt very confident they will be able to afford a comfortable retirement.
Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, is joined by Tax Manager Jessie Thomas, CPA, and Managing Associate D.J. Barker, CWS®, to help a couple who tried to do a back-door Roth IRA on their own. Jessie and D.J. cover the nuances of a back-door Roth and some pitfalls investors can make when reporting it on their tax forms.
A sound retirement plan should be based on your particular circumstances; however, once you’re retired, your income plan should strive to address four basic objectives.
Jim Crone, CLU®, CFS®, Director of Insurance Planning, and Associate Giuliana Barbagelata, CFP® join Chief Investment Officer, Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, to provide some guidance to a C-suite executive who is considering a job that is offering a nonqualified deferred compensation plan. Jim explains how they work and the risks while Giuliana discusses their role in one’s retirement planning.
Big news for individuals born in 1951! The IRS announced that traditional IRA owners who will attain age 72 in 2023 will have to take their first required minimum distribution (RMD) by April 1, 2025, rather than April 1, 2024.
Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, Managing Associate D.J. Barker, CWS®, and Senior Financial Planner Adam Stadalius, CFP®, cover an investor’s options when he inherits his wife’s IRA. With three young children to care for while adjusting to life as a single parent, this investor must to consider when to access the money, taxes, and plans for his family’s future.
The fear of overfunding a 529 plan is a lot less now that new laws allow 529 Plan beneficiaries to roll left over funds into a Roth IRA.
Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, Managing Associate K.C. Smith, CFP®, CEPA, and Associate Clay Norman, CFP® take a closer look at an entrepreneur who wants to tap into his retirement funds to fund his next startup because the sale of his last business didn’t result in immediate cash flow.
