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Jim Lorenzen, CFP®, AIF® How does your financial future look? Your chances for financial freedom will depend on how well you’ve covered your bases! Here’s
Jim Lorenzen, CFP®, AIF® How does your financial future look? Your chances for financial freedom will depend on how well you’ve covered your bases! Here’s
Jim Lorenzen, CFP®, AIF® It’s probably a safe assumption that most individual investors began their investment programs with mutual funds and have built their 401(k)s,
Jim Lorenzen, CFP®, AIF® People often purchase cash value permanent insurance, throw the policy in a drawer or filing cabinet, and forget about it. This
Jim Lorenzen, CFP®, AIF® IRS mandated withdrawals from retirement accounts – required minimum distributions (RMDs) – must begin by April following the year people turn
Jim Lorenzen, CFP®, AIF® Charitable giving is a way you can truly leave a legacy beyond our own family; However, believe it or not, few
Jim Lorenzen, CFP®, AIF® … and what do rising interest rates (and inflation) mean to your long-term success? Maybe less than you think… or is
Jim Lorenzen, CFP®, AIF® A recent study by Morningstar, a leading mutual fund research firm, compared mutual fund returns with the gains individual investors actually
Jim Lorenzen, CFP®, AIF® BUY TERM INSURANCE! INVEST THE DIFFERENCE! That’s the mantra that’s been preached (mostly by tv gurus selling their DVDs) since the
Jim Lorenzen, CFP®, AIF® If you’re thinking of purchasing an annuity, here’s a report you might find helpful. I seldom use annuities for client
Jim Lorenzen, CFP®, AIF® A fiduciary advisor is good to have; but, YOU are a kind of fiduciary, too! Your family depends on you,
When most people buy things, they see only the price tag; but that doesn’t reveal the REAL cost, especially when it comes to luxury items. The real cost of luxury can be more than they realize.
It’s an election year, and while the headline topics dwell on the border, January 6th, the age of the candidates, and all the rest, few are talking about the “3rd rail” of politics: social security.
You can expect a few politicians will come up with innovative approaches (they know will never reach the floor for a vote), but it does make for good campaign sound bites. It can be confusing.