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Essential Estate Planning Review Questions

It is essential to review your estate planning documents every couple of years or when life events change.  Not all circumstances require amendments or modifications to your current documents; however, it is always good to look over your directions, appointments and pre-determined plans.  If nothing else, it is a good exercise to remind yourself of […]

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Financial Tips to Know Early in Life – “If I Knew This in My 20’s or 30’s”

Financial Tips to Know Early in Life   Over the years our clients have made comments about financial decisions or actions they wish they had taken earlier in life.   These financial tips to know early in life were compiled into a series of If I Knew This financial advice tidbits.  Most often it is our

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Receiving a Tax Refund

Receiving a Tax Refund For those who may be receiving a tax refund from the Treasury Department, here is an opportunity to save for future financial goals.   Take these funds and use them for retirement planning, college funding, or other planned short-term and long-term financial goals. Tax Filing and Funding Financial Accounts Contribute to a

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Election Year and Market Impact Commentary

It’s an election year! Each election cycle brings campaigning, lots of news reporting and uncertainty.  A common question we are asked is how will the election year impact markets? Read our Election Year and Market Impact Commentary for the complete analysis and charts. Super Tuesday results are in! It looks, as though it will be

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what your advisors are reading

What Your Advisors Are Reading This Month

WPC’s December Reading List  What Your Advisors Are Reading This Month.  Here’s our final reading list for 2023! We hope you find these curated articles and videos of interest. Watch for more of our lists in 2024.    This month we have a range of topics from housing sales and home buying to labor market data.

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Year End Charitable Gifting

December is fast approaching, now is a great time to review your charitable gifting plans. Here are a few key points of information to know, as well as the potential benefits of charitable gifting. Charitable Gifting Info to Know December 31 is the cutoff date for donations. Organization must be registered with the federal government

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Financial Transitions and Timelines

What is your financial timeline? Where do you see yourself?  Do you know how to work through life’s many transitions? From young emerging investors to seasoned exceeding investors, along the way financial events will arise and wo will the need for confident financial decision making. We often hear from our clients “we don’t want to

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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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