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What Your Advisors Are Reading This Month

July Reading List from your WPC Advisors This month’s articles focus on retirement, inflation reports and economic related news. We hope you find these curated pieces of interest! Market/Economic/Financial Planning Articles Todd L. AC_U.S.-Home-Price-Growth-Over-50-Years.jpg (899×1200) (ritholtz.com) Malea Inflation cooled significantly in June, bringing price hikes close to normal levels (msn.com) Jerry How Many Americans Actually […]

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Emerging Investor – Where do I begin?

Emerging Investors – Where do I begin? Emerging investors–or those new to saving, investing, and managing their personal finances–often come to us with targeted “basic” financial questions.  This is where the relationship begins. We learn about their situation and long-term goals. Most importantly, we begin to build the partnership. We strive to be their “go

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Exceeding Investors – How to Maintain Financial Health and Wealth

Our goal is to ensure that when our clients retire, they feel comfortable and confident in their retirement. This confidence is mainly due to their years of saving, investing, and maintaining discipline as it relates to financial well-being.  Deferring their earnings in a tax-advantaged way, keeping a diversified investment allocation in good and bad markets,

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Simple Personal Finance Best Practices Checklist

Are you looking for a checklist of best practices to set your financial house in order? Here’s our short, simple list of Personal Finance Best Practices (at any age) Live within your Means – Cover your essentials and decide on your extras. Have Health Insurance Coverage – That fits your situation. Establish Automatic Payments –

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I Miss My Monthly Paycheck. Help!

One of the most difficult adjustments for clients as they enter retirement is to flip that switch from receiving a paycheck into their bank account to withdrawing funds from their investment accounts.  We have found that many clients have actually worked longer because they just couldn’t reverse this thinking. Investors are savers and for savers

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Student Loan Debt Cancellation – What to Know?

Student Loan Debt Cancellation – What You Need to Know Recently, President Biden extended the student loan payment pause until 12/31/2022 and announced that $10,000 of federal student loans would be cancelled for those making less than $125,000 annually or $250,000 if a married couple.  People who also received Pell grants will be able to

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Financials 101: 26 Financial Tips for the Next Generation

Why is it important to start early in saving for retirement?  Here are a few stats to ponder…the Government Accountability Office study (2019) found that nearly 48% of Americans ages 55 and older don’t have any retirement nest egg or traditional pension plan. Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies found in its 20th annual survey that

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Are you Charitable or Philanthropic?

Charitably inclined means you give time, energy or resources to known organizations that are near and dear to your heart.  For example, charitable giving can include annual donations to a camp or university that really impacted your life or volunteering at a local food pantry or shelter for victims of domestic abuse.  Here is an

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