Saving for Retirement & Child’s Education You want to retire comfortably when the time comes. You also want to help your child go to college. But only have $1 at the end of the month… So how do you juggle […]
Financial Planners Unite! The World Needs Us! I recently read a study done by the Harvard Business review where they tracked the spending habits of 235 U.S households for a year. Their findings were not surprising. These 235 households had […]
The answer is…it depends. We all want to believe that retirement planning is a clean analysis that can be run to peg the exact amount of money we need to eventually stop working. Maybe we need: 75% of income (adjusted […]
The financial planning process is a logical, six-step procedure: (1) determine your current financial situation. (2) develop financial goals. (3) identify alternative courses of action. (4) evaluate alternatives. (5) create and implement a financial action plan (6) reevaluate and revise […]
As a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® I talk to clients regularly about the importance of living below their means. I understand that on the surface it sounds easy but in reality for some its very difficult. Either they don’t make enough […]
