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A Fruitful Retirement: Social Security Benefit
Taking your Social Security benefits at the right time may help maximize your benefit.
Fallen Tree Damage—Who Pays?
Your liability for damages that occur when a tree on your property falls on your neighbor’s property is not clear cut.
Your Cash Flow Statement
A presentation about managing money: using it, saving it, and even getting credit.
Four Great, Unexpected Places to Raise a Family
Here are 4 great, and sometimes unexpected, places to raise a family.
Medicare Advantage Plans (Medicare Part C)
Medicare Part C allows you to choose a Medicare Advantage plan. This article will help you decide if it's right for you.
Countering Counterfeit Currency
Combating counterfeiting remains core to preserving the integrity of the nation’s money.
How Income Taxes Work
A quick look at how federal income taxes work.
The A, B, C, & D of Medicare
Learn about all the parts of Medicare with this informative and enjoyable article.
The Five Basics of Financial Literacy
How literate are you when it comes to your finances? Brush up with these five basics.
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Can I Refinance My Mortgage?
This calculator can help determine whether it makes sense to refinance your mortgage.
What's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
Disability Income
This calculator estimates your chances of becoming disabled and your potential need for disability insurance.
A Look at Systematic Withdrawals
This calculator may help you estimate how long funds may last given regular withdrawals.
Taxable vs. Tax-Deferred Savings
Use this calculator to compare the future value of investments with different tax consequences.
Annuity Comparison
This calculator compares a hypothetical fixed annuity with an account where the interest is taxed each year.
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Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
Long-Term-Care Protection Strategies
The chances of needing long-term care, its cost, and strategies for covering that cost.
Managing Your Lifestyle
Using smart management to get more of what you want and free up assets to invest.
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A New Way to Look at Your Bucket List
Bucket lists don’t have to be for tomorrow.
The Junk Drawer Approach to Investing
It's easy to let investments accumulate like old receipts in a junk drawer.
Acres of Diamonds
In life it often happens that the answers to our most pressing questions are right in our own backyards.
Global and International Funds
Investors seeking world investments can choose between global and international funds. What's the difference?
What Can a Million Dollars Buy You?
$1 million in a diversified portfolio could help finance part of your retirement.
Dreaming Up an Active Retirement
When you retire, how will you treat your next chapter?