Your Green 2020 | Credit Score: Why Does it Matter?
October 5, 2020
Many people don’t realize the importance of building and maintaining a good credit score to their overall financial well-being.
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Your Green: CARES Act – Financial Relief
April 16, 2020
Unprecedented in scale and scope, a $2 trillion stimulus bill was signed by President Trump on March 27, 2020. The bill, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), provides stimulus for individual Americans, healthcare workers, small businesses, and certain industries hit hard by the pandemic. This is the third relief package to address the effects of the COVID-19 virus.
Your Green: Coronavirus – Help with Financial Challenges
March 25, 2020
In addition to our worries about the impact of the Coronavirus on our health; the social distancing, isolation, and shut downs required to help contain the virus have impacted or will impact many individuals and businesses as well. Much is being done to try to counter these impacts to help keep our economy strong. We anticipate further relief is on the way, but here are some highlights of the things occurring in the U.S. right now.
Your Green 2020 – Delayed Gratification and Wealth
March 16, 2020
Have you heard of the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment conducted in 1972 by a Stanford University psychologist?
Your Green: The Secure Act of 2019
February 11, 2020
The SECURE Act (Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement) (“the Act”), was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump on December 20, 2019. The Act makes some significant changes to Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) rules as related to Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and other retirement plans, in addition to changes in other areas. This is one of the most comprehensive retirement plan reforms in more than a decade, and this is a brief overview of a few highlights that may be of interest.
Your Green 2020 – Growth versus saving for retirement
January 17, 2020
Very few people could “save” enough for retirement with today’s long life expectancies and earlier retirements. If you just “save” – yet do not have growth that exceeds both income taxes and inflation, you are more likely to run out of money.
Your Green: Understanding long term care insurance
June 14, 2019
What is Long Term Care (LTC) and who should have it?
Your Green: How Can I Afford College?
May 14, 2019
Are you high school student wondering how you will one day pay for your college education? Or perhaps you are a parent who isn’t sure how to help their child get a college education?
Your Green: Who will get my money when I die?
March 11, 2019
The best way to make sure assets go to the right people is to list them as beneficiaries. By law, the beneficiaries designated for an account or policy will receive the assets in that account or payable under that policy upon your death.
