Your Kids: Making Sure They’re Prepared for Financial Success

Your Kids: Making Sure They’re Prepared for Financial Success

While it’s always important to give kids time to just be kids, children growing up today face a much steeper learning curve than either baby boomers or millennials. In fact, child development experts now say that increasing expectations in school and in the workplace mean that kids need to start internalizing basic emotional, cultural and […]

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Retired & Thriving: How to Stay Active, Engaged, and Sharper than Ever

Retired & Thriving: How to Stay Active, Engaged, and Sharper than Ever

With retirement, you’ve entered a new stage of life. Done right, it is as productive – perhaps more so – than previous life stages. While you might want to just relax and do nothing for a while after retiring from a lifetime of hard work, boredom can kick in pretty quickly, and that’s not healthy. […]

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8 Tips to Remember After Defending Yourself

8 Tips to Remember After Defending Yourself

For many gun owners across the United States, owning a gun and shooting at the range isn’t practice—it’s preparation. Law abiding citizens attempt to prevent the worst from happening, such as facing an intruder and needing to pull the trigger in self-defense. While that’s a terrifying situation and a momentous decision, it can get even […]

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What You Don’t Know About Your 401(k)

What You Don’t Know About Your 401(k)

More than 500,000 American employers offer 401(k) retirement plans to their employees, and over 90 million American workers are enrolled in these plans. As of 2015, around 52 million of this number were active, contributing participants in 401(k) plans. While it’s usually easy to sign up for your company’s 401(k) plan (and many firms today […]

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Life Insurance: How to Make Sure You’re Getting the Coverage You Need

Life Insurance: How to Make Sure You’re Getting the Coverage You Need

If the only certainties in life are death and taxes, life insurance makes a difference when these two inevitabilities conjunct. Life insurance provides for your loved ones after your death, and if the beneficiary is your spouse or a life insurance trust, the proceeds are not taxed as part of your estate. Who Needs Life […]

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