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  1. This IRA Move Looks Smarter After the Stock Market Correction
    One of the biggest problems with the way that most people save for retirement is that they fail to take taxes fully into consideration. With traditional IRAs and 401(k) plans, you typically set aside pre-tax money into a tax-deferred account that shelters your money from tax as long as it stays in the account. But once
  2. Want to Buy a Home in 2024? Here Are 4 Ways to Help Make It Happen
    If you've spent the last few years itching to get on the property ladder, you might be feeling pretty discouraged by persistently higher mortgage rates and a stubbornly low number of houses for sale.
  3. What To Do With Excess Funds In Your Child’s 529 Plan—A Good Problem To Have
    What do you do with "extra" funds in your child's 529 Education Savings Plan after they've finished college, or gone in a different professional direction?
  4. Why Jerome Powell's business-as-usual Jackson Hole speech was the best possible outcome
    Fed Chair Jerome Powell's annual Jackson Hole speech was uneventful, but that's not a bad thing. Powell reiterated the Fed could start tapering its asset purchases this year and rates aren't changing soon. Stocks hit record highs during the speech as investors shrugged off fears of an early pullback in Fed support. See
  5. Will home prices drop if there's a recession?
    Home prices are expected to increase moderately throughout 2025. While a recession could lead to a small decline in prices, a full-blown housing market crash is less likely.
  6. Down Market? It’s Roth Time!
    The recent chaos in the market, coupled with the most significant sell-off since 1987, has at least one silver lining: if you intend to invest you can invest in a Roth vehicle and recoup gains potentially tax-free. Roth IRAs, and their bigger sister, the Roth 401(k), provide the opportunity for savers to develop invest
  7. How to Effectively Manage Teams in the Post-COVID Era
    The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we do business and live our lives in many important ways. No matter the industry or niche you’re in, you surely had to find ways to accommodate new trends in managing operations, such as remote work, closing your physical stores to everything except low-contact strategies, and the
  8. Why Do All Small Businesses Need a Website?
    With over 40,000 searches on Google every second, which converts to 3.5 billion searches every day, your small business absolutely must have a website presence. Regardless of the industry sector that you operate within, your customers are more than likely searching for services like yours on the Internet. This sentimen
  9. 5 Financial Tips For Every Military Family
    Military members and their families face one-of-a-kind challenges, such as deployment to conflict zones, overseas assignments, and the constancy of
  10. 3 Asset Allocation Rules You Should Know by Heart
    The assets you accumulate in your lifetime can be used to benefit you in the near term as well as retirement, and knowing how to manage those assets will increase the likelihood of them serving you well. With that in mind, here are a few rules to stick to if your goal is to grow wealth successfully. 1. Don't invest mon