From Our Blog
Ep 48: How Complex Should Your Financial Plan Be?
If you visit a financial advisor, how complex should your plan be? Is a one-page plan too simple? Is a 50- to 100-page plan too much? We’ll explain how much detail you should expect in your financial plan.
Ep 47: Market Crash Survival Guide
When the market crashes, it’s normal to feel panicked. But we’re here to help you build confidence and get through these tough times with a five-step market crash survival guide.
Ep 46: Handling Finances After the Death of a Spouse
It’s a somber topic that no one likes to think about, but it’s important to have a financial plan in place if your spouse dies. Our team can help you with those sensitive, difficult conversations so money is the least of your worries if your loved one passes away.
Ep 45: Meet Our New Advisor, Dan Oaklief
Meet our team’s newest financial advisor, Dan Oaklief. Find out how he has reenergized and motivated our team and how he’ll be helping our clients.
Ep 44: Should You Tell Children About Inheritance Plans + Other Listener Questions
If your estate plans include leaving behind a money to your children, should you tell them about it ahead of time or make it a surprise? There are arguments for both sides and we’ll share some of our guidance on that topic. Plus, we’ll cover annuities, retirement income, trusts, and investment strategy on this mailbag edition.
Ep 43: Financial Bots are Here
Have you ever plugged your financial info to a website and gotten a retirement projection? As technology improves, how much can you trust these bots? Ben tried it for himself and got surprising results. We’ll share those plus talk about how useful these bots can be for planning.
Ep 42: 4 Milestones for Retirement
Being mentally ready to retire and financially ready are two completely different things. You might be prepared to call it a career but does your financial situation match your readiness? Let’s look at four milestones that might indicate you’re in a position to retire. Have you hit all these yet?
Ep 41: Do You Lack Confidence to Retire?
The turbulence of 2020 might have you questioning just how close you are to retirement. That’s a common feeling for many people but today we’ll share a story about a client that came in without much confidence in retiring and left with the plan to quit working in three months.
Ep 40: Retirement Projections, Diversification & Other Mailbag Questions
It’s time to answer your questions once again on the podcast. Today we’ll cover, retire-ment projections, proper diversification, how much you’ll need for retirement, a surprise inheritance, and working while earning Social Security.
Ep 39: Potential Hidden Gems in Your Financial Portfolio
If you’re like most people, you probably have some financial accounts that you haven’t paid much attention to recently. The statements are just collecting dust in your file cabinet, but they might actually be hidden gems that could be put to much better use. We’re going to talk about ways to re-purpose those old accounts for better returns.
Ep 38: Should You Be Wary of Dave Ramsey’s Advice?
Dave Ramsey has become one of the leading names and brands in finance and for good reason. The advice he gives benefits a lot of people across the country but is all that guidance applicable to you? Let’s look at his most popular teachings and determine how much we agree with.
Ep 37: A Coronavirus Update on Our Clients & Our Office
We spend most of the time on this show talking about financial planning topics, but we thought it would be beneficial for a lot of people if we talked about how everyone has been doing. From our own office to the clients we’ve been keeping in touch with, find out how others are dealing with quarantine and what they’ve been doing to keep busy.