Financially, many of us associate April with taxes – but we should also associate April with important IRA deadlines. April 1, 2020, is the deadline to take your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) from certain individual retirement accounts. A new federal […]
You may have seen this statistic before or one resembling it: the average 65-year-old retiring couple can now expect to pay more than $250,000 in health care expenses during the rest of their lives. In fact, Fidelity Investments now projects […]
The government passed a year-end spending bill in December, and it included one piece of legislation that could have a big impact on retirees. It’s called the SECURE Act. The bill’s name is an acronym for Setting Every Community Up […]
Across the country, people are saving for that “someday” called retirement. Someday, their careers will end. Someday, they may live off their savings or investments, plus Social Security. They know this, but many of them do not know when, or […]
What are your New Year’s resolutions? Resolutions have been around as long as New Year’s itself. The first known mention of the phrase, “New Year’s resolution” was in a Boston newspaper in 1813. However, even 4,000 years ago, ancient Babylonians […]
Do you have your crystal ball ready? It’s the beginning of a new year, which means it’s time for everyone to make predictions about what’s in store over the next 12 months. Clearly, it’s impossible to predict the future. However, […]
You have an “estate”. It doesn’t matter if you own a mansion or a motor home. Rich or poor, when you die you leave behind an estate. For some, this could be real property, an investment portfolio and more. For […]
“What is your greatest retirement fear?” If you ask any group of retirees and pre-retirees this question, “outliving my money” will likely be one of the top answers. In fact, 51% of investors surveyed for a 2019 AIG retirement study […]