Your Financial Future
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Helpful Content
Tax Freedom Day
Assess how many days you'll work to pay your federal tax liability.
Changing Unhealthy Behaviors
Five phases to changing unhealthy behaviors.
Keeping Good Records is Good Business
Maintaining good records for your business not only helps to meet your tax and legal obligations, but it can save you money.
Choosing a Business Structure
Entrepreneurs all face the same question, “Which business structure should I adopt?”
Making Sense Of A Home Warranty
Understanding the value of a home warranty.
Investing with Your Heart
For some, the social impact of investing is just as important as the return, perhaps more important.
What Do Your Taxes Pay For?
Here's a breakdown of how the federal government spends your tax money.
Gun Ownership and Your Homeowners Policy
Gun owners need to make sure that their homeowners policy covers the full value of their firearm(s) as personal liability.
Volunteering in Retirement
For many, retirement includes contributing their time and talents to an organization in need.
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What Is My Current Net Worth?
Use this calculator to estimate your net worth by adding up your assets and subtracting your liabilities.
Lifetime of Earnings
Estimate how much you have the potential to earn during your working years.
How Much Home Can I Afford?
With a few simple inputs you can estimate how much of a mortgage you may be able to obtain.
Interested in a Fuel Efficient Car?
Estimate how many months it may take to recover the out-of-pocket costs when buying a more efficient vehicle.
Self-Employed Retirement Plans
Estimate the maximum contribution amount for a Self-Employed 401(k), SIMPLE IRA, or SEP.
What Is the Dividend Yield?
This calculator helps determine your pre-tax and after-tax dividend yield on a particular stock.
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Protecting Those Who Matter Most
The importance of life insurance, how it works, and how much coverage you need.
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
Investment Strategies for Retirement
Investment tools and strategies that can enable you to pursue your retirement goals.
Managing Your Lifestyle
Using smart management to get more of what you want and free up assets to invest.
5 Smart Investing Strategies
There are some smart strategies that may help you pursue your investment objectives
Your Cash Flow Statement
A presentation about managing money: using it, saving it, and even getting credit.
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What Smart Investors Know
Savvy investors take the time to separate emotion from fact.
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Lifestyle inflation can be the enemy of wealth building. What could happen if you invested instead of buying more stuff?
From Boats to Brokers
From the Dutch East India Company to Wall Street, the stock market has a long and storied history.
Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
16 Wall Street Cliches in 60 Seconds
Pundits say a lot of things about the markets. Let's see if you can keep up.
Making Your Tax Bracket Work
Have you explored all your options when it comes to managing your taxable income?