eBooks & Checklists

Download our informative eBooks & Checklists that cover some of the key financial issues our clients' find relevant and important to them.
Year End Planning Issues
Adjusted gross income (AGI) and modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) are important tax concepts to be aware of when implementing tax planning strategies. However, there are several factors that affect one’sAGI/MAGI, and it can be challenging to keep track of them all. This summary covers the key factors to be aware of when reviewing your AGI/MAGI.
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Year End Planning Issues
The end of the year provides a number of both planning opportunities and issues. Year-end topics can include tax planning, investment and retirement accounts, charitable giving, cash flow and savings, insurance and estate planning. 

In this comprehensive checklist, I cover a number of planning issues that you need to consider prior to year-end to ensure that you stay on track.
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Pursuing A Better Investment Experience
This brochure features 10 principles that can help investors effectively target long-term wealth in the capital markets. Themes include the power of markets, growth of wealth, drivers of returns, global diversification, and investor discipline.

Focus on what you can control:
· Create a plan that fits your goals and risk tolerance.
- Diversify Globally.
- Manage expenses, turn-over, and taxes.
- Maintain discipline through market dips and swings.
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Issues to consider when Owning A Rental Property
Many people like rental income because it seems passive and simple, until it isn’t so passive … or simple!

Using this checklist, will help you to understand the challenges and nuances that exist with owning a rental property--- Whether it’s landlord responsibilities and managing risk, or investment and tax/estate concerns:
·  The extent of responsibilities a landlord may be subject to.
- The increased and varied risks of owning a rental property.
- The multitude of tax factors that come into play when owning a rental property.
- The impact owning a rental property may have on your estate.
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Issues to consider when creating your estate plan
Estate planning is a topic that is commonly ignored. After all, who likes to plan for what happens after they die? Many individuals have no estate plan in place, and they often don’t know where to start.

This checklist covers the key issues to consider you're developing your estate plan, such as:
· Identifying the appropriate estate planning documents needed for your situation.
· Considering ways for your assets to avoid probate.
· Developing an equitable estate plan that is fair to all heirs involved
· Understanding how specific accounts or assets may be affected after death.
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How to Manage Volatile Markets
Market volatility has increased and is unlikely to subside anytime soon. How do you keep your financial plan on track to achieve your goals?
1. Get your finances and your portfolio in the best possible shape
2. Take advantage of lower assets values
3. It’s not just about financial wellness

What will happen over the next three years? Who knows? The good news is, if you’ve planned for the range of outcomes, you won’t have to worry about relying on a prediction.
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Important tax numbers for 2023
There are lots of important numbers that we need to keep in mind. In some cases, those numbers are annual limits that change each year. Other times, the figures do not often change, but are used frequently. In response to this challenge, we’ve created the 2 page “Important Numbers” resource. This quick reference guide covers the most important annual limits as well as figures that are commonly referred to during the year.
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Women & Wealth
Women are building significant wealth, both alone and with a partner. Different generations have an approach specific to them, but getting a plan in place is important at every age. At all age levels, women are redefining how they think about their financial journey. This includes career paths, planning for flexibility, taking charge of family finances, or being successful on their terms.
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Year End Financial Planning Tips
The end of the year provides a number of planning opportunities and issues. Year-end topics can include tax planning, investment and retirement accounts, charitable giving, cash flow and savings, insurance and estate planning. In this checklist, we cover a number of planning issues that you need to consider prior to year-end to ensure you stay on track.
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Tech Job Losses
In today’s economic uncertainty, business closures and layoffs are increasingly common. The loss of a job can cause serious stress personally and financially. To help guide you through a disruption in employment, we’ve created the checklist.
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Stock Options
Whether you’re at a pre-IPO start-up, a growing public company, or a blue chip that just developed a life-saving vaccine, stock options can provide a boost to your current and long-term wealth. The concept is relatively straightforward, but like everything else, the devil is in the details. Maximizing your profit is just one side of the equation – taxes are also a consideration, and the rules are complex. This short read will arm you with enough info to get you started on sorting out your situation.
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Planning For Early Retirement
Are you considering retiring early? If you’re reassessing the value of continuing to work, and weighing the benefits of exiting your career, you probably have questions. Whether or not you have enough retirement savings or other sources of income to create the retirement you want is the first question most people need to answer, but there are other considerations.
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