Reflections Blog

How Doctors Can Catch Up For Retirement

Bulk up your savings and catch up for retirement in a hurry.

3 Tax-Smart Ways to Help Your Children

Before you gift you child cash, stop and consider these tax-saving alternatives

Five Steps to an A+ College Plan

Know what to expect and start saving now

Is There Too Much Risk In Your Portfolio?

How much risk do I actually need to take?

Trade Wars: Is There Another Side to the Story?

What could the consensus be getting wrong when it comes to tariff concerns?

How to Contribute Far More Than $23,000 to Your 401(k)

Adding a cash balance plan to your 401(k) can allow you to make significantly larger retirement plan contributions and save on taxes

Why We Created Fi-Care

We developed Fi-Care Financial Wellness with the goal of helping our business owner clients to improve company culture.

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Of 2017: What to Do Before Year End

How to Maximize deductions that are soon going away

Stop Giving Your Cash to Charities (Use Appreciated Stock Instead)

Donate appreciated stock for a bigger giving impact and more tax savings

FAFSA Myths Busted: How affluent families might still qualify for aid

Understand how your income and assets may work against you when you apply for aid

Supercharge your Roth IRA

Don’t let Roth IRA income limits prevent you from gaining tax-free growth

Graduation Gifts for Life Lessons

Give a ‘Grad a fish, they’ll eat for a day. Teach them how to fish and they’ll eat forever.

How to Launch a 401(k) Plan

Six steps to guide you through this critical component of employee satisfaction

4 Mistakes to Avoid with Your Company Stock Option Plan

Make sure you maximize your stock option benefits by avoiding these four mistakes

Five Rules of Estate Planning

Save yourself large amounts of stress and money with these five estate planning guidelines

Four Simple New Year’s Resolutions That Will Stick

Straightforward financial resolutions to aim for in the new year

Tax Strategies for a Windfall Year

Lower your taxes after selling a business, receiving a major bonus, or receiving other windfall

What Sole Business Owners Need to Know About Solo 401(k) Plans

As a sole business owner, a Solo 401(k) allows you to pay yourself up to $66,000 as both an employee and an employer.

Not so Simple: What Business Owners Need to Know About Simple IRAs

A SIMPLE IRA allows employees to save pre-tax and companies to make smaller contributions without the administrative requirements of a 401(k).

No 401(k)? No Problem. Why SEP IRAs Work for Some Small Businesses

SEP IRAs can be a good option for sole proprietors or small companies seeking a plan that is flexible and simple to administer, with high limits on contributions.

Why Some Business Owners Choose a Safe Harbor 401(K) over a traditional 401(k)

A Safe-Harbor 401(k) plan provides a minimum level of contributions to all employees, freeing owners and highly compensated employees to receive larger profit-sharing payments.

When is a Defined Benefit Plan a Good Option for Business Owners?

A Defined Benefit Plan can help older owners of highly profitable businesses squeeze twenty years of savings into ten

What business owners need to know about 401(k) plans

A 401(k) allows high levels of employee pre-tax saving with the option for employers to make contributions, all professionally managed and administered.

The Up Side of Down: Stock Market Declines & Annual Returns

Despite average intra-year drops of 14.2%, annual returns have been positive in 27 of 35 years.

Average Returns Aren’t Normal, Normal Returns are Extreme

An average return is in fact exceedingly rare.

Three Ways to Lower Student Loan Payments

Gain financial freedom by improving your student loans terms

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