Retirement Planning – Have you taken the steps to plan for retirement (and I don’t mean just contributing to your 401k)? In other words, are you on-track to retire when you want? And will you have enough money to make it through retirement? You’d be surprised at how many people don’t really know the answers to those questions. You may have an idea, but do you really feel confident about your answer? For starters, a [...]
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I took my two-year old daughter, Lexi, to Trader Joe's yesterday to buy two turkeys. Over the past couple years I’ve picked up the hobby of smoking meat, so I’m going to try smoking a turkey for the first time, and just in case something goes wrong, I'm going to fry the other one. If you've never gone to buy a turkey at Trader Joe's – do it, and take a child with you. Lexi [...]
When meeting with prospective clients about putting together a comprehensive financial plan, one of the biggest items missing is disability insurance. Did you know that 1 in 3 people between the ages of 35-65 will face a disability and be unable to work for 90 days or longer? And the average length of a disability is 4 years! With all the financial products and salesman in the world these days, it can seem overwhelming and [...]