Retirement Watch Weekly
Wills and Estate Planning: 6 Reasons Why your Will is Critical to Your Estate Plan
One of the most important tasks you undertake is to create an estate plan to ensure you’re taken care of for the rest of your life and then distribute your assets and provide for your loved ones after you die. A primary component of an estate plan is a will. It is crucial to outline […]
Estate Planning Strategy to Avoid the Tax on Helping Grandkids
Most people are concerned about the financial futures of their grandchildren and even great-grandchildren- more so than the security of their own children. After ensuring their own retirement years are secure, many people tell survey takers the security of the third and fourth generations is their next worry. Apparently they believe their children can take […]
Key Changes in Estate Tax, Bypass Trusts and Tax Free Gifts
There are four basic strategies for reducing estate taxes: Reducing assets from the gross estate Removing future appreciation from the gross estate Increasing deductions, and Buying life insurance Within those four strategies are many options. Not all will be appropriate for you. But there are quite a few strategies – and it’s always good to […]
The Hibernation Economy and Beyond: Investment and Economic Review
The economy has been in a recession or worse since mid-March. What will happen next? How should you respond? This month’s Retirement Watch Spotlight Series is the semiannual Investment and Economic Review, and we’re going to take a deep look at those issues. The data reports are way behind what we know is happening in […]
Bob’s Journal for 6/11
The U.S. economy entered a recession in February, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). The prior economic expansion had been the longest on record, when using data going back to 1854, as it lasted for 128 months. Economists and investors have long since accepted the NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee as the […]
9 Ways to Trim Taxes and Maximize Benefits from RMDs
Required minimum distributions (RMDs) from IRAs weren’t simplified or changed in the new tax law. Taxpayers ages 70½ and older still have to take these distributions from traditional IRAs and other qualified retirement plans, 401(k)s included, whether they need the money or not. The good news is we still have strategies to simplify RMDs and […]
The Retirement Watch Family Caregiver Planning Guide
Family caregiver planning has some simple rules… And some not-so-simple rules. For starters, any caregiver agreements involving family members should be in writing. That is, unless the person providing the care is being altruistic (being a friend), and expects nothing in return now or in the future. Often when one family member provides care for […]
“How to Turn $1 into $3 — And Get Retirement Peace of Mind” Conference Call 06/05/20
Welcome to my subscriber-only conference call: How to Turn $1 into $3 — And Get Retirement Peace of Mind. Click on the image below to listen to the conference call.
