Tools to enhance your financial journey.

Resources serve as valuable tools for addressing important financial matters. We've included informative newsletters, handy calculators and links of interest – to help you with your financial life.

Glossary
2023 Key Numbers
If you want to know what your tax bracket is, what your maximum contribution to your retirement plan is, or how much you can gift this year, it is all in this piece. There is much more as well.
Financial Planning
Making day to day decisions is easier once you see the big picture. This article explains how financial planning can help you do so.
Teach Your children
Our schools are woefully inadequate when it comes to teaching our children about basic finance, saving and investing. It is up to you to prepare them for a sound financial future and this article can help get you started.
Pay Off Mortgage or Invest
This article aims to help you make this tough decision.
Fixed vs. Adjustable Rate Mortgages
Like homes themselves, mortgages come in many sizes and types, and one of the most important decisions you face as you consider your choices is whether to take out a fixed or an adjustable rate mortgage.
Caring for Your Aging Parents
Caring for your aging parents is something you hope you can handle when the time comes, but it's the last thing you want to think about.
Death of A Family Member Checklist
Losing a loved one can be a difficult experience. Yet,during this time, you must complete a variety of tasksand make important financial decisions.
Financial Survival After a Job Loss
You may have lost your job already, or it's something you're concerned about.
Loss of a Spouse
When your spouse or a family member dies, you'll need to handle numerous financial and legal matters.
Disability Insurance Basics
Disability insurance pays benefits when you are unable to earn a living because you are sick or injured.
Adjusting to Life Financially after A Divorce
There's no doubt about it — going through a divorce can be an emotionally trying time.

Investment Concepts

Asset Allocation Quilt Chart: Variability of Investment Returns
Why should you diversify your investments? Predicting the best place to have your money invested year to year is nearly impossible. This chart will show you the best to worst performing asset classes in each of the past 20 years.
Investing Basics
Are you new to investing? This piece will give you some more knowledge to aid you in your decision making.
Undersrtanding Bond Yields and the Yield Curve
This is an in depth look into fixed income instruments and how they compensate investors.
Comparing Bond Yields
This is an in depth look into fixed income instruments and how they compensate investors.
Growth vs. Value: What’s the Difference?
These are two very different ways of evaluating companies. Understanding the difference can make you a better investor.
Lump Sum vs. Dollar Cost Averaging
Is it better to invest all of your money at once, or spread it out over time? This article can help you make a more informed decision.
Holding Equities for the Long Term
As is often said, it's not timing the market that's key, but rather the amount of time you're in the market. This piece shares some wisdom from successful long-term stock investors.
Bonds, Interest Rates, and the Impact of Inflation
There are two fundamental ways that you can profit from owning bonds: from the interest that bonds pay, and from any increase in the bond's price.

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