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    Teaching Kids about Money from Childhood Through Adulthood

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    Teaching Kids about Money from Childhood Through Adulthood

    Teaching kids about money is especially complex – you aren’t just passing on a few bucks to go to the movies, but an array of attitudes, values and assumptions regardless of whether you mean to. Your kids watch, in a way not even they are aware of, how you interact with finance and how you …

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    Teaching Kids about Money from Childhood Through Adulthood

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    Teaching Kids about Money from Childhood Through Adulthood

    Teaching kids about money is especially complex – you aren’t just passing on a few bucks to go to the movies, but an array of attitudes, values and assumptions regardless of whether you mean to. Your kids watch, in a way not even they are aware of, how you interact with finance and how you …

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    Why You Should Start Your Estate Plan Today (Instead of Tomorrow)

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    Why You Should Start Your Estate Plan Today (Instead of Tomorrow)

    Many of us think we don’t have enough assets for a will to be necessary, or we’ve simply put it in the “I’ll get to it” category. But planning carefully now can save your beneficiaries from legal fees, tax losses and the ugly relational stress that comes up all too often in the estate process. 

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    How to Grow (and Keep) Your Emergency Fund

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    How to Grow (and Keep) Your Emergency Fund

    The most solid strategy is to build an emergency fund – accessible, ready and able to support you and your family when you hit a rough patch. Let’s look at a few essentials on creating and protecting your rainy-day money, and how this fits into your overall wealth plan. 

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    4 Hurdles in Retirement Beyond Your Investment Portfolio

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    4 Hurdles in Retirement Beyond Your Investment Portfolio

    Becoming hyper-focused on only one aspect of a problem is pretty much never a good approach. A racecar driver who only focuses on speed and ignores strategy won’t win races, at least not many of them. A carpenter who only hammers in nails won’t build strong structures. 

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    Sorting Through the Noise on Social Security

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    Sorting Through the Noise on Social Security

    We live in the Information Age, where any information we could ever want is available to us within seconds, but due to the overwhelming wealth of info and sources – not to mention neck-break speed of the instant news cycle – it feels hard to know what’s really going on.

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    How to Financially Prepare Yourself for a Divorce

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    How to Financially Prepare Yourself for a Divorce

    Your financial advisor may not be the first person you call when considering splitting up, but they should be somewhere on the list. One of the concrete things you can do to help with the process and the healing to follow is to plan ahead. 

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    How to Plan For College and Keep Expenses Down in the Age of the Student Debt Crisis

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    How to Plan For College and Keep Expenses Down in the Age of the Student Debt Crisis

    For most students, experts say it remains financially worth it to go to college, despite rising tuition and opportunity costs in relation to increasing wages for workers holding only a high school diploma. The average rate of return (net gain or loss on college investment across a career) is 14%. 

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    How Your Employee Benefits Fit into Your Financial Plan

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    How Your Employee Benefits Fit into Your Financial Plan

    Your Health Savings Account (HSA) is a cornerstone of your benefits planning. The money is triple tax-advantaged – contributions, growth and withdrawals for qualified expenses are not taxed. This account is like nothing else, and you need to take full advantage of it. 

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    3 Retirement Potholes (and How to Avoid Them)

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    3 Retirement Potholes (and How to Avoid Them)

    The retirement planning process is full of potholes – they seem to pop out of nowhere and can do major damage if you’re not careful. In my years as a financial guide, I’ve put in a lot of man-hours helping people avoid financial potholes. The danger is real and the monetary bruises take a w …

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