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Gen Z Smart Money Blog: Smarter Travel for Safer Spending
Is your Instagram feed filled with traveling pictures, but you’re at home stressing about your bank balance? You’re not alone.
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SECURE Act: How it Can Affect Your Estate Planning
When Congress passed the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act — which took effect on Jan. 1, 2020 — it created a mixed bag of benefits and new requirements for Americans saving for retirement. The law was also a way for the government to get access to retirement savings sooner so that mone
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Preparing Your Information for Disaster
When COVID first hit, like a lot of people, I began to think about my own mortality in a new light. Here was this unknown illness that was striking people down. What if it were to happen to me? What I felt wasn't so much a fear of my own mortality, but worries about what would happen to my family if I were no longer he
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Saving For College And On Your Taxes: Understanding 529 Plans
Any adult may open a 529 Plan for any named beneficiary—you do not have to be the parent or grandparent of the person named.gettyMay 29 is National 529 College Savings Plan Day! Do you know what a 529 plan is? Do you know how to use it? Let me explain. What is it?529 College Plans were initially created to help familie
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Passive Income Isn't Just for the Rich. Here Are 3 Ways Everyone Can Earn More Money
You don't have to be rich to generate passive income. Here are a few strategies for earning some extra money without breaking a sweat
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Three Ways to Start Saving for Your Child’s Future
A parent’s responsibilities are seemingly never-ending and ever-growing. All parents want to make sure they’re teaching their children everything
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Debunking The Myths About Self-Directed IRAs
Founder/CEO of Next Generation Trust Company, a trust company specializing in custodial & administrative services for Self-Directed
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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
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Do You Really Know What Your HSA Can Do for You?
Over the past several years, health savings accounts (HSAs) have grown in both interest and popularity — so much so that there were $104 billion in
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Make These 3 Moves Before You Start Investing
Investing money is a great way to grow wealth over time. Over the past 50 years, the stock market has delivered an average annual 10% return (before inflation), based on the performance of the S&P 500 index.