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Weekend Reading: How Do Taxes Affect Stock Returns?

Market investors are primarily focused on market returns, as you should be; but another major component worth considering is how taxes impact your returns.

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Weekend Reading: Investing Resolutions for Life

What can you take away from volatile times? Many investing lessons; Not just for 2023, but for life.

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Weekend Reading: 4 Retirement Planning Moves That Can Yield Big Tax Savings

Many individuals underestimate the impact Uncle Sam can have on your decades’ worth of savings, so to proactively protect your dollars, have a strategy in place; plus, keep some of these principles in mind.

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Weekend Reading: Setting Health Goals for 2023

As a habitual goal-setter, I personally know the powerful effects setting intentions for yourself can have not only in the New Year ahead, but years down the road.

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Weekend Reading: What’s the Difference Between Average and Actual Rate of Return?

With rate of return being such a primary factor for basing investment decisions, you should know there are actually two different types: Average rate of return and actual (or real) rate of return. And both are not created equal.

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Weekend Reading: A Reliable Income Choice You’re Probably Ignoring

You may have turned away from annuities for the last decade, but given shifting interest rates and an evolving product landscape, it could be time for a second look.

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Weekend Reading: Myths and Realities About Investing

A quick Google search will relay many myths about investing, but when you understand fact from fiction, you can make wiser, more calculated decisions.

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Weekend Reading: The Gifts We Give Our Kids

While the season of gift-giving is in full swing, it’s a good time to reflect on how this all plays into the relationship kids have with money, as well as their perception of it.

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Weekend Reading: Ness Labs – The Default Effect: Why We Renounce Our Ability to Choose

When presented with a list of options, the ability to make our own choice grants us control. However, when a default option is added to the mix, humans tend to run with the status quo.

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Weekend Reading: Short-Term Investments to Protect Against Inflation and Market Volatility

Instead of sitting on the sidelines in fear, you may want to consider short-term investment options that can help put your dollars to work.

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Weekend Reading: To Build Inevitable Wealth, Simply Avoid Financial Ruin

Investment guru Warren Buffett never let the media or opinions of others sway his investment decisions, and neither should you. Inevitable wealth is built by focusing on your behavior instead of the noise around you.

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Weekend Reading: People Who Do This One Thing Every Day Have Half the Dementia Risk That the Rest of Us Do

A recent study showed individuals in their 70s have a nearly one in three chance of getting some form of Dementia, but there’s good news on the forefront when it comes to avoiding it as well.