If one of your New Year’s resolutions involves enhancing and expanding your investment portfolio, look no further. In a true New Year’s Eve countdown tradition, ask yourself these 10 questions to help review your investment plans.
IRS Increases 401(k) Limit By Record Amounts
As inflation soars, you can now save a lot more for your retirement. Learn more about the new IRS rules on our blog.
The 12 Days of Year-End Planning: Things to Consider Going into “The New Year”
At year-end, it’s important to reflect on your financial picture, review the last 12 months, and plan for the future. If these tasks seem overwhelming, consider using this 12-day year-end planning checklist to break down this process into manageable steps.
Outlook 2024: A Turning Point
Solid gains for both stocks and bonds gave investors a November to remember. Increasing confidence in a soft landing for the U.S. economy has shifted the focus away from rate hikes and toward eventual cuts, helping to pull long-term interest rates down and encouraging market participants to pay higher prices for stocks relative to expected earnings. Patient investors have been …
Doing Good, Feeling Good
When it comes to giving back, your mind might jump to making monetary donations—but that’s not all you can do. Using your unique talents and interests to give back is one of the best ways to make a difference.
7 Retirement Considerations
When helping people get ready for retirement, financial professionals find the same issues come up over and over. Here are 7 retirement considerations that every investor should think about.
Year-End Donations and #GivingTuesday
According to GivingTuesday.org, donations to nonprofits and community organizations totaled $2.7 billion on #GivingTuesday in 2021. Here is a list of things for you to think about as you consider your year-end charitable donations.
Trusts and Year-End Planning: A Checklist
The end of the year is a great time to review your trust document, update information, buy or sell assets or even cancel your trust if you choose. Here is a checklist to help you complete your trust and year-end planning.
5 Year-End Tax Planning Questions to Ask Your Financial Professional
There are many tax planning moves you can make before December 31 to reduce your owed taxes, but how do you know which ones are available to you? Here are five year-end tax planning questions you may want to ask your financial professional soon.
Looking Ahead
October is now behind us and it has delivered on its track record as a historically favorable month for stocks, offering some respite for investors as major equity indices rose for the month.