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Be Aware: Health Savings Account Rules Change Over Time

As you reach certain milestones, the rules for tapping the tax advantages of an HSA may change.
These tax-sheltered accounts are growing in popularity, and it's important to understand all the health savings account rules because they shift as you age or reach certain lifestyle milestones.
Retirement

Key Ways to Think About Financial Planning

Here are some fundamental considerations when making a financial plan.
A financial plan helps you stay adaptable and agile while remaining focused on what's most important.
Investing

How to Choose IRA Investments

Learn how to choose IRA investments that align with your personal risk tolerance and support your retirement savings goals.
By understanding the various IRA investment options available and the importance of diversification, you can build a portfolio that supports your long-term retirement savings objectives.
Investing

How Interest Rate Changes Can Affect Economic Trends

The balancing act between interest rates and inflation is affecting housing markets and investment returns, making it more important to have a solid financial plan.
A strategic approach to financial planning may help you navigate the current and future interest rate environment.
Investing

Wealth Management Technology Can Help Power Your Financial Planning

There's no replacement for professional advice, but tech tools can add power and precision to the advice you get from your human advisor.
Wealth management technology isn't just an option—it's essential to your pursuit of prosperity.
Retirement

Save Smarter for Retirement With These Strategies

Once you have enough for retirement, other saving options may hold advantages.
For 401(k)s, watch out for the notion that retirement planning is merely is limited to opening a 401(k) and then putting as much money into it as you can.
Investing

2024 Likely to Bring Continued Readjustment

Bank experts foresee calmer markets in housing, equity investments, labor markets and more for 2024.
If attitudes in 2023 were fueled by anxiety over Fed rate hikes, 2024 is shaping up to be a year of anxiety over the impact of politics on economic growth trends.
Family

Introducing Your Children to Your Advisor

Opening lines of communication with your children about family financial planning is important regardless of their age.
Advisors say it's never too early for children to meet the family financial advisor, but those encounters—and their benefits—will look significantly different depending on your children's ages.
Saving

How To Maximize FDIC Coverage on Deposits

Learn how account titling can help you maximize FDIC coverage and protect your money.
The rules get a little more complex when you have more than $250,000 deposited in an FDIC-insured bank, but there are ways to stay protected.
Investing

Self-Directed Investing Fundamentals

Even with a self-directed account, a professional approach can help you successfully manage your portfolio.
Even as tools like direct-investing apps and robo-advisors have become increasingly popular, many investors are realizing that doing it yourself is as much of a responsibility as an opportunity.
Retirement

Learn the Basics with Retirement Income 101

Our experts share basic tips for managing your money just before and after you retire.
No matter how many income streams end up on your list, they're going to fit into one of two categories: It's either fixed or variable income.
Home

What to Consider When Buying a Second Home

Learn how buying an investment or vacation home differs from purchasing a primary residence.
Second homes and investment properties require higher reserves and more of a down payment than a primary home, and you need to be prepared for that upfront.
Retirement

How to Manage Retirement Money in Uncertain Times

If you're on a fixed income or are about to retire, managing your money effectively is a necessity.
Your retirement is as good as your plan.
Family

Say More, Risk Less: What to Tell Your Financial Advisor

Open conversations about what's happening in your life can deepen the value of financial advice.
While these questions may seem personal, from a planner's point of view they're standard—and important.
Investing

The Pros and Cons of Annuities

Annuities can help you address the risk of outliving your assets, making them a valuable tool in retirement planning.
If you're looking for a steady stream of income during retirement, this is the benefit an annuity will provide.
Investing

Beware of These Common Investing Mistakes

You take your car in for service and hire contractors to renovate your house. The same logic applies to investing.
If you started investing without a plan, it's not too late to put one in place.

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