Financial Planning is a profession full of unknowns – you don’t know how the market will perform, you don’t know exactly how much you’ll spend in retirement, and you definitely don’t know what your future health will be. In this piece, we explore some of…
With six weeks to go until the first day of summer, there’s still time to complete your spring cleaning projects. A typical list of spring cleaning projects likely includes de-cluttering your living spaces and swapping your winter clothes for a summer variety. But when is…
Dealing with your finances may be the last thing on your mind when going through a divorce, or it may be the first. Regardless of the order, deciding how the couple’s assets will be split is one of the biggest decisions the two parties will…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently released their annual summary of consumer complaints and consumer protection statistics for 2016. For the first time in the 20 years that the FTC has been keeping records, imposter scams surpassed identity theft among reported consumer complaints. When you…
It used to be that your 70 1/2 “birthday” was a notable time for required minimum distributions (RMD) but that date has changed! The current RMD beginning age for anyone born in 1951-1959 is the year you turn 73 and for those born in 1960…
This being the last business day of the year, we thought we’d reflect on some of the best pieces from TheLiveBigWay® Digest in 2016. We have reviewed the Digest posts from 2016 and we share with you the five most popular posts from each of…
At an estimated population of 82 million, millennials make up the largest generation in America. Born between 1980 and 1995, members of this cohort have often found themselves to be the subject of everything from think-pieces to scholarly articles in recent years. While many labels…