With one month to go until the new year, it might be a good time to reflect on the status of your retirement savings in order to better understand what your choices and needs will be in 2021. Take a look at this week’s article for a few retirement calculators. They help you to understand if you are saving enough to retire, and how tax options impact on your savings. After you’ve run a few different scenarios, call us if you’d like to discuss some options that may make a big difference in planning for your retirement. We’re always here

Commentary: This week’s article tells us that “managing your risk constitutes a major element of your financial plan”, and that risk includes items such as your life in addition to your home. Life insurance can be viewed as insurance to replace lost earnings, to provide a source of savings or an inheritance for your loved ones in the event of premature death, or the eventuality we all face. “The trick here is to put the risk in dollars. In the case of life insurance, for instance, layout the expected income that will be lost if the insured were to die.

Commentary: We have always tried to keep things simple, and so were thrilled to read this week’s article where a member of the faculty at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research has shown the adage “the simpler, the better” when it comes to retirement planning. In a study to be published in the Journal of Public Economics they will show that when faced with complicated choices “people end up throwing their hands up in the air and don’t save anything at all.” Call us – we will tell you, in an easy to understand way, about some choices you