Are You Over 50? Catch Up!

Consider making a catch-up contribution to your retirement! If you contribute $7,500 each year from age 50 to age 67 (17 years), you can make a big impact on your future.

Retirement Times

According to recent data from the National Council on Aging and the Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement, nearly half of women ages 25 and older lack access to a tax-advantaged, employer-sponsored retirement plan.

Historic, Unprecedented and Unusual

In the lexicon of the investment community, the words historic, unprecedented, and unusual are tossed around recklessly to the point that they sometimes lose their true meaning.

Retirement Times

Financial stressors including stubbornly high inflation and historic levels of credit card debt continue to impact workers across a wide range of income brackets.

Retirement Times

Financial stressors including stubbornly high inflation and historic levels of credit card debt continue to impact workers across a wide range of income brackets.

Building a Bright Retirement Future

Clear, achievable, and meaningful goals can lay the foundation for success. Vague aspirations may have limited worth without a well-defined plan. Depending solely on past performance or arbitrary investment rules may carry risks when striving to achieve your financial goals.

Retirement Times

The relationship we forge with our future selves can greatly impact financial decision making in the present. Research conducted by social psychologist Hal Hershfield using functional magnetic resonance imaging revealed that subjects with a stronger connection to their future selves were more likely to delay gratification and make more prudent financial choices.

HIP Mid-Year Update

Skepticism, anxiety, uneasiness, and doubt…the foundational principles of the first half of 2023’s rally. This YTD rally isn’t like many of the past, driven by greed, speculation, and exuberance. Instead, equity markets outperformed despite all the negativities. They exceeded the expectations of most Wall Street “experts.”

Q2 Fiduciary Hot Topics

If current trends continue, the Social Security trust funds will be completely depleted in 2034. This is according to the most recent annual report published by the Trustees of Social Security. This is one year sooner than was projected in last year’s report.