financial planning

Ep 32: Understanding the 3 Qualities of Money

The goal for your money is to help you reach retirement and utilizing it correctly will achieve that. Before making any financial decisions, it’s important to understand the three different qualities of money and which investments best align with your goals.

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Ep 31: End of Year Financial Checklist

We’re all ready to put an end to 2020 and turn the calendar to a new year, but first things first. Let’s look at the end of year planning conversations you should be having with your advisor before January 1.

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Ep 30: What is Your Retirement Lifestyle?

Retirement looks different for all of us but determining what kind of lifestyle you want to enjoy will help you plan. Let’s talk about the different types of lifestyles we see clients choose and what it means for building a proper plan.

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Ep 29: Take This Retirement Preparedness Quiz

Want to find out just how prepared you are for retirement? Here are five key questions that you need to be asking yourself. The answers will help determine just how ready you are to retire.

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Ep 28: Best Places to Retire

Are you thinking about moving to a new state when you retire? Today we’ll look at a list of the top places people retire and discuss the common factors that go into make a decision like that. Plus, we’ll share the locations that many of our Minnesota clients have decided to live in retirement.

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Ep 27: Retirement Concerns for Baby Boomers

With so many Baby Boomers heading into retirement every day, they are finding different challenges and concerns than their parents had to deal with. We work with many people in that generation and have heard many of these things first hand. Today we’ll talk about where the worries are and what they can do to be prepared for a long retirement.

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Ep 26: The Financial Forecast

The change from summer to fall always gets us talking about the change in weather so we thought we’d carry that conversation over to the podcast. Join us as we provide correlations between what we see in the weather with how we prepare our finances.

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Ep 25: Obsolete Retirement Planning Ideas

There are plenty of financial planning strategies that have been passed down to each generation without losing effectiveness, but not everything can stand the test of time. Today we’ll identify five planning ideas that are either becoming obsolete or already hold little value anymore.

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Ep 24: How Your Home Fits into Retirement Planning

Your home is one of the biggest assets in your financial portfolio and there are a lot of decisions to make related to real estate. Let’s talk about the conversations we have with clients about mortgages, rental properties, downsizing, and more.

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Ep 23: Awkward Conversations in Financial Planning

In order to build a complete financial plan that meets aligns with your goals, it takes many honest conversations with your advisor. Some of those, by nature, are going to be a little uncomfortable. Let’s look at some of the more awkward discussions we have with clients during the planning process.

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