The IRS recently announced adjustments to retirement plan contribution limits. In 2015 the elective deferral limit for 401(k) participants will be increased to $18,000. Most similar plans, 403(b), 457, etc. will allow increased contribution limits as well. The catch-up contribution limit for employees age 50 and over will increase to $6,000. Therefore, older employees can defer as much as $24,000 next… Read more →
Category: Financial Planning
The Gold Standard, Alpha, Beta, and now…Gamma.
Question: Should the US return to the gold standard, so that the Fed can’t “create money out of thin air”? To answer that question David Andolfatto, Vice President and Economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis recently published a piece entitled, The Gold Standard and Price Inflation. You can view it here. The author cites an historical example… Read more →
It’s time for another quiz and a funny story.
Sometimes our understanding is “incomplete.” Over the years we have observed that most people operate under one or more misconceptions regarding certain financial matters. In an effort to clarify a few of those misconceptions we offer the following brief quiz. Four questions are presented. Please click the hyperlink to indicate your response and view additional information. Question #1. Do you… Read more →
Cash flow planning is critical to financial success.
After all, most of us do not inherit wealth, so, if we are going to gain it, we must build it. And for most of us, the opportunity to build wealth exists, over time, as we turn our ability to earn an income into cash flow from which we “capture” financial assets. We capture financial assets by spending less than… Read more →
The Financial Planning Process is… a process.
It is not a product, not a package solution, but a process. A process which can lead to the accomplishment of financial and life goals. At its core is the idea that you should begin by determining what is important to you. You will be in a position to make the best use of your assets only after you have come to… Read more →