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If you’ve accidentally deleted or misplaced a financial document, you already understand the importance of backing up your important files. However, saving your financial documents to an external hard drive is only part of the battle. To truly safeguard your documents, try to keep them saved in at least three places. This could include your…

Do you have a long-lost retirement account left with a former employer? Maybe it’s been so long that you can’t even remember? With over 24 million “forgotten” 401(k) accounts holding roughly $1.35 trillion in assets, even the most organized professional may be surprised to learn of their unclaimed “found” money.1  What are “Forgotten” Retirement Accounts?…

By definition, estate planning is a process designed to help you manage and preserve your assets while you are alive, and to conserve and control their distribution after your death according to your goals and objectives. But what estate planning means to you specifically depends on who you are. Your age, health, wealth, lifestyle, life…

One of my favorite tax savings strategies we manage for clients is what is referred to as the Qualified Charitable Distribution or QCD.  Only the IRS can complicate the naming of a very simple and straight forward tax savings strategy.  Keep in mind, I always say every “Tax Simplification Act” only complicates the tax code…