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Weekend Reading: We Fear the Known, Not Uncertainty

Life is full of “what-ifs”, and not knowing what’s around the bend is what might often cause you feelings of fear and stress.

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Weekend Reading: The 'Perfect' Investor Has These Two Traits

When it comes to successful investing, Jack Bogle once advised, “Don’t do something; just stand there”, and he makes a fair point.

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Weekend Reading: Maximizing the Step-Up in Basis by Gifting Assets Between Spouses

Presently, taxpayers have a roughly $12 million estate exemption per person. As such, a step-up in basis strategy can be utilized to help minimize capital gains taxes upon the sale of those appreciated assets.

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Weekend Reading: Ten Insights from the Originator of Financial Therapy

The behavior and decisions you make around money root far deeper than you might ever realize.

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Weekend Reading: How to Want Less

What constitutes a satisfying life? Your answer will more than likely differ from mine, and that of anyone else you ask, but what remains is the fact we’re all in continual search of it.

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Weekend Reading: How Thinking About 'Future You' Can Build a Happier Life

You put effort into cultivating relationships with friends and family, but what about the relationship you have with your future self?

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Weekend Reading: Dreading Income Tax Season? Try Income Tax Planning Instead

Some might view tax season as a once-a-year event where Uncle Sam takes an unpredictable slice of your hard-earned savings. However, in the grand scheme of your retirement, tax planning should occur throughout the year, every year.

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Weekend Reading: Fear and Greed: An Investor's Worst Enemies

With a lack of clarity still in the financial forecast, this article spotlights two fear and greed-based biases you will want to be aware of, so you can learn to not only manage them, but to also put more focus toward the long-term success of your investments.

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Weekend Reading: Segmenting Retirement Expenses into Core vs. Adaptive to Create Retirement Buckets

Bucket strategies in the realm of financial planning are plentiful, and one you might have come across includes sorting your expenses into “essential” versus “discretionary”.

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Weekend Reading: Stocks Don't Rise or Fall Because of Interest Rates

If news headlines of the Fed raising short-term interest rates has you feeling frazzled – particularly in relation to the market – here’s your signal to remain calm.

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Weekend Reading: The Better You Are at Math, the More Money Seems to Influence Your Satisfaction

Were you a math pro in school? If so, new research shows it could benefit you more than you might realize.

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Weekend Reading: The Problem with Precision in Financial Planning

Benjamin Franklin was once quoted saying, “…In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”, and the same belief can certainly be applied to the world of financial planning.