Posts Tagged RICP®

Are Health Savings Accounts better than a 50% employer-match on a 401(k)?

By Greg Geisler, PhD, CPA, Clinical Professor of Accounting at Indiana University-Bloomington The tax-efficient order to invest and pay down debts, is in other words, how to maximize the tax-efficient accumulation of wealth while you are working. There are many articles on tax-efficient decumulation once you retire, but there is a very clear tax-efficient order […]

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Posted in: PROTECT the Plan from Retirement Risks

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Grief Literacy for Financial Advisors: Engaging the Bereaved Client

By Kathi Balasek, MA, Grief Communication Consultant for Financial Professionals In short, grief literacy is simply normalizing the conversation surrounding grief and, specifically, our grief responses. As advisors, you are much more comfortable with charts, graphs, and numbers, so that’s very natural, and you’re fluent in that type of conversation. Conversation about grief can be […]

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Posted in: PLAN for Retirement Readiness

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Behavioral Finance: Why Do We Do the Things We Do

By Michael Wilson, CFP®, RC®, RICP®, Integrity Financial Planning We all know there are certain things we should do, like eat right, exercise, get plenty of sleep, etc. The same is true for retirement saving: we all know we should be saving now for an unknown period of time in retirement. Multiple studies and surveys have indicated […]

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