Help Reduce your Investment Related Taxes through Asset Location
Drew Schaffer Drew Schaffer

Help Reduce your Investment Related Taxes through Asset Location

Asset Location is the strategy of holding your tax-efficient investments in your taxable accounts, and your tax-inefficient investments in your tax-advantaged accounts, without sacrificing your overall asset allocation. Read to learn more about this concept and the potential benefits it can have for your financial picture.

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4 Key Steps to Managing Your Portfolio Through a Market Correction in Retirement
Drew Schaffer Drew Schaffer

4 Key Steps to Managing Your Portfolio Through a Market Correction in Retirement

Market pullbacks can be unsettling. Especially when you’re in retirement and relying on your investments to support your everyday life. While corrections and pullbacks are common in the stock market, costly mistakes can be made during these times if not handled properly. Here are 4 Key Steps to keep in mind when the stock market goes through a sell-off.

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Importance of Using Future Value When Determining a Claiming Strategy for Social Security
Drew Schaffer Drew Schaffer

Importance of Using Future Value When Determining a Claiming Strategy for Social Security

When analyzing Social Security claiming options, most people will project an estimate of how much “total dollars” they’d receive throughout their retirement. This can be misguiding, as the actual factor you want to compare is not “total dollars”, but rather the “Future Value” of those dollars. This blog goes into detail about what Future Value of Benefits is and why it’s important to use during your Social Security analysis.

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SECURE Act 2.0 Changes that go into effect in 2024
Drew Schaffer Drew Schaffer

SECURE Act 2.0 Changes that go into effect in 2024

With the new year upon us, a number of changes relating to retirement planning are going into effect in 2024. This blog piece covers a few of the more impactful changes and planning opportunities to be mindful of regarding them.

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Tax-Gain Harvesting
Drew Schaffer Drew Schaffer

Tax-Gain Harvesting

Learn about a year-end tax strategy known as Tax-Gain Harvesting. Where individuals / household’s who find themselves in a lower-income year can potentially take advantage of that lower income to lower future taxes.

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