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What's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.

Rightsizing for Retirement
What does your home really cost?

Social Security Benefits: How Much Will I Receive
Calculating your potential Social Security benefit is a three-step process.
Dog Bites Neighbor. Now What?
Even dogs have bad days. So, what happens when your dog bites a neighbor or passing pedestrian?
Eight Mistakes That Can Upend Your Retirement
There are common mistakes you can avoid when saving for retirement.
Mortgages in Retirement
Explore the benefits and drawbacks to paying off your mortgage prior to retirement with this article.
Capital Gains Tax When Selling Your Home
If your clients are buying or selling a home, use this to help them determine if they qualify for capital gains taxes.
Changing Unhealthy Behaviors
Five phases to changing unhealthy behaviors.
The Most Overlooked Item of Any Home Improvement
The item most homeowners forget on their home improvement project checklist is insurance.
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What's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
Tax Freedom Day
Assess how many days you'll work to pay your federal tax liability.
Comparing Mortgage Terms
Estimate the total cost in today's dollars of various mortgage alternatives.
Potential Income from an IRA
Estimate your monthly and annual income from various IRA types.
Long-Term-Care Needs
Determine your potential long-term care needs and how long your current assets might last.
What Is My Life Expectancy?
Estimate how many years you may need retirement assets or how long to provide income to a surviving spouse or children.
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Your Cash Flow Statement
A presentation about managing money: using it, saving it, and even getting credit.
Managing Your Lifestyle
Using smart management to get more of what you want and free up assets to invest.
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
Long-Term-Care Protection Strategies
The chances of needing long-term care, its cost, and strategies for covering that cost.
5 Smart Investing Strategies
There are some smart strategies that may help you pursue your investment objectives
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Keeping Up with the Joneses
Lifestyle inflation can be the enemy of wealth building. What could happen if you invested instead of buying more stuff?
The Business Cycle
How will you weather the ups and downs of the business cycle?
The Cost of Procrastination
Procrastination can be costly. When you get a late start, it may be difficult to make up for lost time.
The Other Sure Thing
Though we don't like to think about it, all of us will make an exit sometime. Are you prepared?
The Cycle of Investing
Understanding the cycle of investing may help you avoid easy pitfalls.
Retirement Plan Detectives
A couple become Retirement Plan Detectives, searching records from old employers.