Should You Invest Your Social Security Taxes Instead? A Deep Dive into the Numbers and Real-Life Impacts
Are you better off investing your social security taxed earnings (the surprising truths behind the system's benefits and limitations).
How a Simple Insurance Review Helped a Client Save Big ($1M Lifetime Value?)
Insurance needs change over time—what works today may not be the best fit tomorrow. Evaluating your policies within the context of your financial plan ensures adequate coverage and maximum savings.
How We Create Personalized Cash Plans for Our Financial Planning Clients
An effective cash management plan balances financial best practices, personal comfort with cash, and active cash oversight to maximize returns, ensuring emergency funds are maintained at optimal levels and excess cash is efficiently invested for higher returns.
Accountable Plans for S-Corp Owners: Maximize Tax Savings and Compliance
S-Corp owners can avoid taxable reimbursements by using an accountable plan, allowing federal and FICA tax-exempt reimbursements for business-related expenses. With Trump's 2017 tax law changes, personal expense deductions are limited, making accountable plans essential for tax efficiency and compliance on mixed-use expenses like home office and cell phone costs.
What to Do After a Loved One Dies: A Step-by-Step Guide
When a loved one passes, the emotional toll can be overwhelming, and managing the financial details only adds to the complexity. By taking proactive steps now—such as preparing key documents and having essential conversations—you can reduce the burden later and ensure your loved ones are taken care of with clarity and confidence.
Reframing Retirement Success: How to Improve Spending Conversations
Maximize retirement spending by adopting a flexible, proactive approach to asset depletion, rather than relying solely on the traditional 4% rule. By adjusting withdrawals based on market performance and regularly reviewing your financial plan, you can increase lifetime spending while maintaining financial security throughout retirement.
Unlock the Flexibility of ICHRAs: A Cost-Effective Health Benefit Solution for Your Employees
There’s a smarter, more flexible way to offer health benefits—one that lets your employees keep the coverage they love while still providing them with valuable support, without pushing them into a one-size-fits-all group health plan.
Are Markets Prices Wrong?
If market prices are right, they reflect all available known information. If market prices are wrong, then you should be able to exploit this to make millions.
New Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) Rules | What You Need To Know
The SECURE Act has dramatically changed the rules for Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs), making it essential for beneficiaries to stay informed on the new guidelines to effectively manage inherited retirement accounts and avoid costly errors.
Minimizing College Costs
College is the equivalent cost of a mortgage - here’s ways to take $50k off the sticker price.
The Value of Uncertainty
Whether we are voluntarily or involuntarily subjecting ourselves to uncertainty, we might as well value it, because life without uncertainty is like a static, unchallenging existence absent of growth and discovery.
Generating Higher Returns with Portfolio Rebalancing
Why, when, how to rebalance for higher returns.
Tax Efficient Gifting with Charitable Remainder Unitrust
What you gift, when you gift, how much you gift, & to which vehicles you gift to all factor into how much of your tax bill you’re able to reduce.
Determining if Rental Real Estate is a Good Investment
Real estate makes sense when 4 things align: numbers, your why, experience, and time.
Should every rental real estate property have its own LLC?
As you venture from owning one, into owning many real estate properties, how do you protect yourself, increase efficiency, and cut costs?
How To Be a Tax Savvy Investor
Many investors focus on increasing total returns but in pursuit leave excess returns on the table due to poor tax management.
Guide to Small Business Valuation
So, what is your small business worth? Quite simply: What someone else is willing to pay for it.
Navigating the Maze of Medicare
Clarifying Medicare options, key decision points, and reviewing ways to reduce insurance costs while maintaining the best coverage.
Putting Estate Planning Strategies To The Test
Provided non-qualified annuities avoid the step up in basis & offer ordinary income rates on distributions which come out as gains first, how does that compare to a non-qualified brokerage account that gets a step up in basis & offers distributions at capital gains rates?
Enhancing Retirement Spending Rules (over & above the 4% rule)
If your retirement goal is to both maximize your net worth & your total lifetime spending, is the 4% rule the best way to attain both outcomes?