Estate & Legacy, Retirement, Taxes
The end of year is nearing, and these final weeks of the year present a critical window for implementing strategies that can significantly reduce your tax liability and advance your long-term financial goals. With this timeline in mind, here are some things to consider before year-end to help ensure your financial plans remain on track. 1. Optimize…
Estate & Legacy, PDS Experience, Retirement, Taxes
In today’s unpredictable financial landscape, an experienced financial advisor helps to guide clients through life’s complexities, as well as market fluctuations. This goes well beyond basic investment management but rather is a comprehensive approach to financial well-being and peace of mind. If the role of a financial advisor is to guide investors through these unpredictable…
Beyond Your Finances, Estate & Legacy, Risk Management
Caring for an Elderly Parent Caring for your elderly parent will almost certainly come with both challenges and rewards. While complex enough in its own right, it becomes even more so when balancing the care with your own long-term goals and plans in mind. When undertaking this profound responsibility, some strategies can help provide your…
Planning for an Inheritance Receiving a substantial inheritance can be a transformative event, even for high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) and families. Properly managing this infusion of wealth is crucial to ensuring long-term financial success in preserving and growing that wealth for future generations, as well as preserving the benefactor’s legacy. This requires a comprehensive approach, careful…
Beyond Your Finances, Estate & Legacy
Posted: 04/22/20024 You want peace of mind you are prepared for retirement, and with that may also come the desire to know your adult children are also positioned for financial success. The fact is, being financially dependent isn’t good for either the adult child or the parents. What can you do to set them on…
Published: 3/19/2024 While people often think about charitable giving around the end of the year, planned giving strategies can and should be discussed and optimized year-round. Today, individuals and families are increasingly seeking to incorporate philanthropy into their financial plans to help maximize their impact and wealth goals. Types of Charitable Contributions Charitable contributions are…
Beyond Your Finances, Estate & Legacy, Retirement, Taxes
Don’t Put Off Tomorrow What You Can Do Today – Benjamin Franklin Tax season is behind us, markets are up and summer is in full swing! It’s hard to believe we’re nearly halfway through the year, but as you drive towards the beach or that mountain getaway, it’s also a great time to take stock…
Beyond Your Finances, Education Planning, Estate & Legacy, Market Commentary, Retirement, Taxes
Year-End Financial Checklist Looking at your year-end financial checklist now allows you and your financial advisor time to review and assess the progress made on goals set at the start of the year, while still having time before the end of the year to make adjustments if needed. With this timeline in mind, here are…
How to Avoid Probate What if your hard-earned savings did not make its way to your intended recipient(s) upon your passing? As we mentioned in a previous post, it’s worse than lost luggage. While a will is a good start for estate planning, it typically is not enough to avoid the costly, time-consuming, and public…
Estate & Legacy, Retirement, Taxes
Inherited IRAs – Your Must-Know Basics You’ve inherited an IRA. What happens now? Are you the son, daughter, brother, sister, niece, nephew, friend, that has inherited an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) from someone (basically, anyone but your spouse)? If you answered yes to this question, then you are subject to Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) rules…
Beyond Your Finances, Estate & Legacy
Spring Cleaning: Personal & Financial Growing up the two most detested words were when my mom would announce every April that it was time to begin our “Spring Cleaning”. It meant endless hours of moving furniture and tearing our bedrooms apart to clean under and behind our beds and dressers, wiping down baseboards and…
Estate & Legacy, Retirement, Taxes
A recent post from Jamie on his WealthAdviceMadeSimple blog regarding the SECURE Act. Setting Every Community Up For Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act was recently signed into law by President Trump in December and offers a meaningful impact for retirement legislation. A more extensive overview of the law’s provisions can be found here, but for purposes…
Beyond Your Finances, Estate & Legacy
A recent post from Jamie on his WealthAdviceMadeSimple blog regarding the differences in life insurance. Spring 2000 – I sat at my desk, an aspiring CPA if there is such a thing. Bored out of my mind. It’s not that I didn’t work with great people, or for a great firm, but the…
Estate & Legacy, Market Commentary, Retirement
A recent post from Jamie at his WealthAdviceMadeSimple blog outlining the importance of fees. There are few certainties in life, and probably even fewer when it comes to investing. One guarantee that I can make is this: what you don’t spend, you get to keep. Fees matter. Especially when it comes to your money.…
This is the first in a series of articles on preparing for retirement. The next few will deal with what retirement looks like – what I will do as I enter another stage of my life, Social Security planning, cash flow expectations, investments, planning for health care, eventual downsizing and/or re-locating, and other topics I…
