Social Security Planning 101 – Just a Few Drops Into the Ocean One of the core building blocks of a retirement income plan is Social Security. Earned over decades of …
Back To The Basics: Indicators of a Healthy Financial Plan
When you go to your Primary Care Physician for your annual check-up, there are many factors that determine your level of health – height, weight, blood pressure, and pulse are …
Back To The Basics: The Relationships Among Stocks, Bonds, and Interest Rates, Explained Simply
When investment gurus and market commentators speak of the happenings in the markets, you’ll often hear them discuss the effect that interest rates have on bond values and how those …
Back To The Basics
It has been brought to our attention that a return to the basics of financial and retirement planning would be helpful. Back to the Basics is a study of the …
Back To The Basics: A Surprising Truth About Money
When investors look at their account statements during the accumulation (savings) phase of their life, they will generally process what they see as a single, lump sum amount. “I have …
Back to the Basics: Fundamental Investing
by Stephen L. Hanley Through many years of experience working with clients and advisors alike, it’s become clear to me that many struggle with the fundamental concepts of investing. Investing …
Back to the Basics
As people near and enter into retirement, one activity that is quite consistent among retirees is the consolidation of various retirement accounts. After decades of saving in multiple employer-sponsored retirement …
Back to the Basics
Retirement planning is essentially a risk management process. If markets experience uninterrupted growth, inflation remains low, interest rates are fairly normal, and health remains good, there’s not much left to …
Back to the Basics: Required Minimum Distributions (RMD)
Nobody said the US tax code was simple. In this installment of Back to the Basics, we’ll tackle a small part of the tax code that can have big consequences …
Back to the Basics: To what do we attribute an investment portfolio’s performance?
The stock market in 2015 has been less-than-stellar, delivering slightly above 0% return before investing fees and taxes are considered. Coming on the heels of five years of amazing returns …