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Helpful Content
Red Flags for Tax Auditors
Here are six flags that may make your tax return prime for an IRS audit.
How Does Your Credit Score Compare?
Have you ever wondered how your credit score compares to the rest of the country? Take a look and see.
Four Steps to Valuing an Estate
Determining the value of your estate, or for someone who has passed away, can be a complex undertaking.
Test Your Estate Strategy Knowledge
Estate management can help ensure that your assets are transferred according to your wishes while managing tax issues.
Variable Universal Life Insurance
Variable Universal Life is permanent insurance in which the policyholder directs how premiums are invested.
Does Your Credit Score Affect Your Insurance Rates?
Your credit score may influence how much you pay for auto and home insurance.
Budget Check Up: Tax Time Is the Right Time
Tax preparation may be the perfect time to give the household budget a check-up.
The Cost of Procrastination
Don't let procrastination keep you from pursuing your financial dreams and goals.
How Income Taxes Work
A quick look at how federal income taxes work.
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Capital Gains Tax Estimator
Use this calculator to estimate your capital gains tax.
Impact of Taxes and Inflation
Estimate the potential impact taxes and inflation can have on the purchasing power of an investment.
Roth 401(k) vs. Traditional 401(k)
This calculator compares employee contributions to a Roth 401(k) and a traditional 401(k).
What Is My Current Cash Flow?
Assess whether you are running “in the black” or “in the red” each month.
Taxable vs. Tax-Deferred Savings
Use this calculator to compare the future value of investments with different tax consequences.
Inflation & Retirement
Estimate how much income may be needed at retirement to maintain your standard of living.
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An Inside Look at Retirement Living
A number of questions and concerns need to be addressed to help you better prepare for retirement living.
Your Cash Flow Statement
A presentation about managing money: using it, saving it, and even getting credit.
Tax Management Strategies
Learn more about taxes, tax-favored investing, and tax strategies.
Protecting Those Who Matter Most
The importance of life insurance, how it works, and how much coverage you need.
Retirement Plan Distributions
There are a number of ways to withdraw money from a qualified retirement plan.
5 Smart Investing Principles
Principles that can help create a portfolio designed to pursue investment goals.
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Should You Invest in Exchange Traded Funds?
There are hundreds of ETFs available. Should you invest in them?
Perception vs. Reality
There’s an alarming difference between perception and reality for current and future retirees.
The Business Cycle
How will you weather the ups and downs of the business cycle?
Jane Bond: Decoding Diversification
Agent Jane Bond is on the case, discovering how bonds diversify a portfolio.
Saving for College 101
Here’s a crash course on saving for college.
Can Election Results Predict the Market?
How do the markets usually react to elections? Was the 2016 election any different?