It’s that time of year again! Time to look at your IRA contributions and plan for the best retirement savings strategy.

“Doing nothing” can be good; however you can’t “do nothing” about your money. Being proactive with your financial plan, and thoughtfully deciding what you want and need from your retirement nest egg may help you to better understand what your long-term financial goals truly should be.

Even the best pilot in the world needs help to get from point A to point B. No matter how long the pilot has been flying, he cannot see and know everything necessary from the cockpit. Air traffic control is always present to inform pilots of the things they can see; but which the pilot cannot.

You want to retire comfortably when the time comes. You also want to help your child go to college. So how do you juggle the two? The truth is, saving for your retirement and your child’s education at the same time can be a challenge.

It’s been said that diversification is only for folks who don’t know the future…. Well I’m going to go out on a limb and say that is pretty much all of us.

You know how important it is to plan for your retirement, but where do you begin? Your specific needs depend on your goals and many other factors.

In some ways, modern investment planning exhibits a streetlight effect – a small focus instead of a long and flexible one. Most instructional material focuses on identifying principal risk, but what if we were to focus on income?

Every generation has its unique challenges, but parenting has always been one of them. Parents try to prepare their children to be independent, but economic forces are conspiring to make that increasingly more difficult.

Business owners are particularly vulnerable to some misconceptions and false assumptions about their retirement. This article aims to address a few of these issues.

A good place to start would be to understand what your investments “need” to do in your retirement portfolio, and in light of your “need,” what investments have the best chances of creating your successful future.