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Helpful Content
U.S. Personal Savings Rate
What can be learned from the savings rate?
Estate Management Checklist
Is your estate in order? This short quiz may help you assess your overall strategy.
What is the Value of Your Business?
Ascertaining the value of your business is important for a variety of reasons.
Healthy Body, Healthy Pocketbook
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle can help you reduce health-related expenses—and avoid time in the recovery room.
The ABCs of Zero Coupon Bonds
Understanding some basic concepts may help you assess whether zero-coupon bonds have a place in your portfolio.
Required Reading: The Economic Report of the President
The Economic Report of the President can help identify the forces driving—or dragging—the economy.
Certain Uncertainties in Retirement
The uncertainties we face in retirement can erode our sense of confidence.
Assess Life Insurance Needs
How to help determine life insurance needs to provide for your family after you pass away.
Understanding the Alternate Valuation Date
Executors can value the estate on the date of death, or on its six-month anniversary —the “Alternate Valuation Date."
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Historical Inflation
This calculator shows how inflation over the years has impacted purchasing power.
What's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
Long-Term-Care Needs
Determine your potential long-term care needs and how long your current assets might last.
Doubling Your Money
This calculator demonstrates the power of compound interest.
What Is the Dividend Yield?
This calculator helps determine your pre-tax and after-tax dividend yield on a particular stock.
Saving for Retirement
This calculator can help you estimate how much you may need to save for retirement.
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5 Smart Investing Principles
Principles that can help create a portfolio designed to pursue investment goals.
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
Keys to Investing for Retirement
There are some key concepts to understand when investing for retirement
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 Strategies
There are some smart strategies that may help you pursue your investment objectives
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Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
What Smart Investors Know
Smart investors take the time to separate emotion from fact.
Raise Your Retirement Income
Retirees look for ways to convert savings and investments into regular income. One option to consider is an annuity.
Estate Management 101
A will may be only one of the documents you need—and one factor to consider—when it comes to managing your estate.
The Cycle of Investing
Understanding the cycle of investing may help you avoid easy pitfalls.
Should You Tap Retirement Savings to Fund College?
Three things to consider before dipping into retirement savings to pay for college.