Understanding Today’s Financial Environment
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Historical Inflation
This calculator shows how inflation over the years has impacted purchasing power.

You May Need to Make Estimated Tax Payments If…
Have income that isn’t subject to tax withholding? Or insufficient withholdings? You may have to pay estimated taxes.

When Markets React
When markets shift, experienced investors stick to their strategy.
How Solid is Your Offensive Line?
As quarterback of your life, here’s a fun way to think about protecting your financial future.
Financial Hacks for Millennials: Student-Debt
Here are seven ways to reduce that debt and live more confidently.
Your Financial Family Tree
What lessons can you learn from your family members, and what can they learn from you?
Preparing for the Expected
You can plan ahead to protect yourself and your family against the financial consequences of deteriorating health.
Estimating the Cost of College
This worksheet can help you estimate the costs of a four-year college program.
Retirement Road Trip
Discover how to build a retirement plan that guarantees income no matter how long you live.
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Comparing Investments
This calculator compares the net gain of a taxable investment versus a tax-favored one.
What's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
Social Security Taxes
Estimate how much of your Social Security benefit may be considered taxable.
What Is My Risk Tolerance?
This questionnaire will help determine your tolerance for investment risk.
Lifetime of Earnings
Estimate how much you have the potential to earn during your working years.
Capital Gains Tax Estimator
Use this calculator to estimate your capital gains tax.
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Your Cash Flow Statement
A presentation about managing money: using it, saving it, and even getting credit.
Long-Term-Care Protection Strategies
The chances of needing long-term care, its cost, and strategies for covering that cost.
5 Smart Investing Strategies
There are some smart strategies that may help you pursue your investment objectives
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
Managing Your Lifestyle
Using smart management to get more of what you want and free up assets to invest.
5 Smart Investing Principles
Principles that can help create a portfolio designed to pursue investment goals.
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Should I Invest in Gold?
Learning more about gold and its history may help you decide whether it has a place in your portfolio.
The Rule of 72
Do you know how long it may take for your investments to double in value? The Rule of 72 is a quick way to figure it out.
Understanding Dividends
Find out the value working with a mutual company and how you may be entitled to an added benefit of an annual dividend.
What is Life Insurance? Part 1
What is Life Insurance? Part 1
Video: A Time to be Thankful
This Thanksgiving, replace internal fears with external gratitude.
Bursting the Bubble
Tulips were the first, but they won’t be the last. What forms a “bubble” and what causes them to burst?