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Retirement Planning

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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Investment Services

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 Planning

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 ...

Financial Planning

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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Investment Services

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 ...

Financial Planning

Dream Big, Plan Bigger: Achieving 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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Investment Services

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 ...

Financial Planning

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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Investment Services

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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Financial Planning

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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Financial Planning

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 ...

Financial Planning

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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Financial Planning

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 ...

Financial Planning

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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Financial Planning

Unlocking Generational Wealth: 4 Crummey Trust Tax Secrets

Introduction to Crummey Trusts When it comes to managing family wealth and working towards a financially secure, multi-generational future, high-net-worth individuals face unique challenges. One ...

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Retirement Planning

Unlock 3 Risk Managed Investments

Are you an investor or retiree looking to preserve your wealth while still reaping the benefits of the market? You’re in the right place. Navigating ...

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Financial Planning

3 Problems With Your ‘Set It and Forget It’ 401k

It’s 2024. Things are changing like never before. We’ve got a heated election coming up — and, in fact, there are more elections around the ...

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Financial Planning

The Complete Guide to Investable Assets (4-Part Breakdown)

Your time is precious, and it would be easy to give you the information you are looking for in a single sentence. If that describes ...

Retirement Planning

Retirement Planning for Women: 3 Mistakes to Avoid

Retirement planning is crucial for people of all ages and both genders, but it is increasingly holding significance for women nearing retirement age in America. ...

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Financial Planning

How to Be Tax Savvy: 6 Actionable Steps

Savvy: “Shrewdness and practical knowledge; the ability to make good judgements.” Source: Oxford Languages Navigating the haphazard, seemingly random world of American taxes can feel ...