Investments and Retirement Planning
At IAS, a comprehensive financial services firm, we've been committed to helping families and business owners improve their long-term financial success since 1989. Our Retirement Income Confidence Process and Portfolio Management Strategies can help you to maximize income and protect cash flow during both the accumulation and distribution phases of your plan.
Estate and Legacy Transfer Planning
Our firm uses a consultative approach focused on growing, protecting and preserving our clients' legacies while implementing strategies to ensure that their desires are fully met. Our goal, acting as financial quarterback, is to provide families with the peace of mind they deserve.
Business Succession Planning
The business is usually the owner's largest asset and the source that greatly impacts the client's retirement and estate plans. Through our professional experience, we guide the business owner through a defined process to determine how to protect, grow and transfer or exit the company in order to realize the full value of the business while meeting the owner's overall objectives.
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Should You Invest in Exchange Traded Funds?
There are hundreds of ETFs available. Should you invest in them?
Self-Employed Retirement Plans
Estimate the maximum contribution amount for a Self-Employed 401(k), SIMPLE IRA, or SEP.
An Inside Look at Retirement Living
A number of questions and concerns need to be addressed to help you better prepare for retirement living.
Put It in a Letter
A letter of instruction provides additional and more personal information regarding your estate.
Your Emergency Fund: How Much Is Enough?
Having an emergency fund may help alleviate the stress and worry associated with a financial crisis.
Pullbacks, Corrections, and Bear Markets
Clearing up confusion from the economic downturn following COVID-19 and how it might affect your financial strategy.
Getting a Head Start on College Savings
A few strategies that may help you prepare for the cost of higher education.
The Cost of Medical Care
Learn about the risks of not having health insurance in this informative article.
Retirement Traps to Avoid
Beware of these traps that could upend your retirement.
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How Much Home Can I Afford?
With a few simple inputs you can estimate how much of a mortgage you may be able to obtain.
Potential Income from an IRA
Estimate your monthly and annual income from various IRA types.
Disability Income
This calculator estimates your chances of becoming disabled and your potential need for disability insurance.
Inflation & Retirement
Estimate how much income may be needed at retirement to maintain your standard of living.
My Retirement Savings
Estimate how long your retirement savings may last using various monthly cash flow rates.
Social Security Taxes
Estimate how much of your Social Security benefit may be considered taxable.
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Protecting Those Who Matter Most
The importance of life insurance, how it works, and how much coverage you need.
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
Long-Term-Care Protection Strategies
The chances of needing long-term care, its cost, and strategies for covering that cost.
Your Cash Flow Statement
A presentation about managing money: using it, saving it, and even getting credit.
Managing Your Lifestyle
Using smart management to get more of what you want and free up assets to invest.
5 Smart Investing Strategies
There are some smart strategies that may help you pursue your investment objectives
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The Power of Tax-Deferred Growth
Why are 401(k) plans, annuities, and IRAs so popular?
Behavioral Finance
An amusing and whimsical look at behavioral finance best practices for investors.
Emerging Market Opportunities
What are your options for investing in emerging markets?
The Richest Man in Babylon
In good times and bad, consistently saving a percentage of your income is a sound financial practice.
Bursting the Bubble
Tulips were the first, but they won’t be the last. What forms a “bubble” and what causes them to burst?
Inflation and Your Portfolio
Even low inflation rates can pose a threat to investment returns.