Creating and Following a Real Financial Plan
The Right Type of Life Insurance for Your Estate Planning Needs Life insurance has been associated with estate planning for decades. Life insurance works for estate taxes because they are due when...
View ArticleA Primer on How to Plan for a Future Sum
Whether you are planning for a major purchase, financing an education or planning for retirement, an analysis structure that explicitly considers investment returns, cash flows and horizon is crucial...
View ArticleDelaying Retirement, But Not Your Retirement Dreams
Many investors today who had planned to retire early at 62 when they became eligible for Social Security benefits—albeit at a reduced rate compared with retiring at full retirement age—are discovering...
View ArticleAnalyzing Your Financial Health Using Personal Financial Ratios
Investors commonly use stock ratios such as price to earnings, price to book and dividend yield to assess the financial health of a company. The reasons the ratios are so widely used are because they...
View ArticleNovember AAII Journal Update
COVER ARTICLE: Beyond the Index Card: Implementing the Advice of the Financial Experts By Harold Pollack , Charles Rotblut, CFA The story behind Pollack’s index card, which contains the best...
View ArticleAAII Survey: Year-End Tax Planning
The end of the year is a busy time for many of us what with the holidays, year-end work projects, etc. However, even before the ball drops on 2018, many investors are making portfolio decisions...
View Article19 Year-End Financial and Investing Moves
This week’s AAII Weekly Digest highlights these “must-read” AAII articles: 19 Year-End Financial and Investing Moves Actionable steps covering personal finance, estate planning, investing, retirement...
View ArticleAAII Survey: Premarital Financial Discussions
My housemate loves watching reality television, which means I get to watch a lot of reality programming. Her favorites include, and please don’t judge, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and Married at...
View ArticleFinancial Planning: The Substance Beneath the Froth
What Is a Financial Plan? Financial planning itself is not new, or even very exciting. Well-run businesses have been practicing this common-sense activity since the dawn of the capitalist era. What is...
View ArticleBeyond the Index Card – Implementing the Advice of the Financial Experts
This week’s AAII Weekly Digest highlights these “must-read” AAII articles: The Individual Investor’s Guide to Personal Tax Planning 2018 AAII’s annual tax and financial planning guide is designed to...
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