Charitable Giving: Doing Your Due Diligence

Charitable Giving: Doing Your Due Diligence

Donating to charities is a win-win when filing taxes. You get to help a cause you care about and can claim dedications on cash contributions. But what happens when the charity you’ve given to is fraudulent? You’ve now donated to a false entity, haven’t helped the...
How do I Start Planning for Retirement?

How do I Start Planning for Retirement?

If you’ve just begun your career and started collecting a decent paycheck, retirement probably feels like it’s lightyears away. But it will get here quicker than you expect, and when it does, you’ll want to be prepared. And if you’re in your 40s or 50s and haven’t...
The New Normal Retirement

The New Normal Retirement

It’s believed that retirement planning as we currently know it didn’t really exist until a few decades ago. Up to that point, people worked until 65 and then sailed into retirement on a pension plan. Over the next few decades, as life expectancy and years in...