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Does Long Term Care Insurance Pay for Assisted Living? [IPF Q&A]

Does long term care insurance pay for assisted living? This could be a million-dollar question… or a several-thousand-dollar question, depending on your insurance coverage, and ...
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How Do You Become A Fiduciary? (Constructive Changes in 2025)

“Fiduciary” might sound like a buzzword in the financial planning world, but rest assured it’s a word that deserves its reputation — and if the ...
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Why Are Nursing Homes So Expensive? Answers & Strategies for 2025

The cost of nursing homes has reached staggering heights in recent years, leaving families across the country struggling to afford quality care for their aging ...
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Financial Planning for Couples: 3 Critical Principles

Couples’ financial planning in the age of the individual could feel like navigating uncharted, stormy seas; where do you even start? The answer could be simpler ...
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Wealth Management for Physicians: 4 Non-Negotiables

Physicians dedicate their lives to caring for others, often at the cost of long hours and the everpresent burden of navigating an emotionally and intellectually ...
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Rethinking Financial Resilience in 2024: A Mindset Shift

When we think of the words ‘financial resilience,’ it’s easy to default to conventional thinking on the subject, i.e. the importance of building an emergency ...
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What is the COLA increase for 2025? (Practical Guide)

Each year, the Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) — not to be confused with the globally recognized pop drink — becomes a key topic for retirees and ...
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Wealth Management for Professional Athletes: Building a Legacy Beyond the Game

For professional athletes, both personal and financial success are easy to link to achievements on the field, but at Iron Point Financial, we would like ...
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Financial Advisor for Physicians: 4 Potential Red Flags to Avoid

Elsewhere on our website, we have addressed what we think are the best, most positive ways to approach financial planning for those in the medical ...
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Financial Planning for Physicians: 6 Purposeful Practices

As a physician, you’ve dedicated your life to the noble cause of helping others, which can often mean sacrificing your time, energy and sometimes even ...
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Wealth Management for Entrepreneurs (4 Effective Solutions)

Entrepreneurship can be an exciting and rewarding journey, but it can also come with a unique set of financial challenges. Unlike employees in traditional 9-to-5 ...
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Dream Big, Plan Bigger: Pursuing Aspirational Goals in Financial Planning

Have you ever dreamed of owning a beautiful beach house, traveling the world, or retiring early with a comfortable lifestyle? These dreams are not just ...
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Wealth Management for Business Owners: The 7 Fundamentals

Wealth management for business owners requires a uniquely tailored approach, given that the bulk of your assets tends to be tied up in your business ...
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Financial Planning for Small Business Owners: 3 Fundamentals for Long-term Growth

As we’re sure you know, running a small business comes with both great rewards and enormous challenges, and requires a careful balance between long-term growth ...
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Discover 3 Family Wealth Planning Secrets

Have you ever heard of the hit 2019 film Knives Out? It’s a murder mystery about multimillionaire writer Harlan Thrombey’s suspicious death on the eve ...
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Is Your Financial Advisor Retiring? (5 Critical Action Steps)

When your long-time trusted financial advisor announces their retirement, or the financial planning firm you have been working with changes management, it could feel like ...
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What is Financial IQ? Discover 4 Little-Known Factors

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, a seasoned professional, or a recent retiree, you probably know that gaining a big picture perspective and understanding of the financial ...
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Financial Planning for Dentists: 5 Better Strategies for Financial Health

“Financial planning for dentists:” probably not a phrase that entered your mind in dental school… yet here we are today.  If you’re reading this, we ...
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Transparent Financial Planning: Discover 5 Key Differentiators

Let’s address the elephant in the room head on: not every financial professional has your best interests at heart.  Some people in our industry are ...
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Financial Planning for Doctors: 3 Powerful Parallels to CFPs®

Are you wrestling with the need to balance your high earning potential as a doctor with massive, ongoing medical school debt? The Primary Goal of ...
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