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A Woman’s Guide to a Pleasant Retirement
How to Overcome the Midwestern Money Mindset and Give Yourself the Four Permissions
Retirement is an Outdated Social Construct
By: Clinton Miller, CFP®, Advisor I am going out on a limb in saying this, but here goes: Retirement is imaginary. It’s a solution in search of a problem. The Financial industry assumes your Retirement™ goes like this: You work hard over a 45...
Can a Nest Egg Turn into Real Money?
By: Rachel Krabill, Administrative Assistant So you’ve saved, you’ve planned, you’ve been patient. You’ve nurtured that nest egg and it’s looking pretty solid – pristine even. Maybe untouchable? You’ve thought about what retirement might look like, could look like. ...
How to Assess if Stocks Are Too Risky When I’m Nearing Retirement
When you’ve spent your whole career saving for retirement, and you see that you don’t have many years left until you flip the switch and stop working, you start feeling pretty protective of that retirement nest egg. In this Pleasant Financial...
COLA – Will it continue?
An important factor to our ongoing retirement income is how the Social Security payment grows over time. This Cost-of-Living Adjustment, or COLA, is announced annually for the following year. It might make a few bucks to a few hundred dollars difference monthly, but...