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What is Your Long-Term Care Plan?
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... fast and many people have not had a discussion with their family about what their long-term care plan is. A long-term care plan, in my mind, is about your health care, not just insurance. Health ...
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Estate Tax Trouble in 2010
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... the cost basis by the estate executor; the executor now gets to decide which assets and heirs should benefit from the $1,300,000 step-up – this could create a fight amongst family members. To counter ...
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Retirement Is About Living Longer
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... arenas. It might be your job, which for many of us it hopefully is. If it is not your job, do not become listless; search for work that keeps you passionate. Purpose might also come from your family, ...
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Take Control of College Costs
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... The days of students simply paying their own way through college via entry-level jobs and summer savings are fading quickly. Planning and preparing for college is now a family affair and like any other ...
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What's Ahead?...Spring and Echo Boomers
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... index to 208. The index is the relationship between the median family income and the cost of the median priced home at today's interest rates, assuming a 20% down payment. The Twin Cities' December affordability ...
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Estate Planning Mistakes
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... your taxes done this winter so that you can go into the summer excited to get together with your family at the lake with your future well planned out. ...
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When Spending is Really Saving
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My wife and I had a recent conversation about our children’s education. Many of our friends have joked with me that our family should be well prepared for college because I know what the expenses will ...
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The New Normal Economic Discussions
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... never got to hear. This interaction was formative for me because it taught me the family stories, culture and mentoring that became the foundation for my money decisions. The one thing I recognize from ...
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Keeping The Family Cabin In The Family
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The family cabin is a right of passage for many Minnesotans and one that many of us want our children and grandchildren to experience for a long time to come. Just like we remodel our primary residence, ...
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Welcome
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... freedom to balance family, work and play. True financial planning must incorporate investing with your unique goals - and those of your family - so that you get a return-on-investment and a return-on-life. ...
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The Family Fallout From This Economy
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... once again refocused on helping our own family. The debt we piled up did not make us happier, and I suggest the debt the government piles up will not as well. Beyond debt, it is becoming more expensive ...
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2009 Market Takeaways
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... to have found the family dinner again. Instead of going out and spending $100 on dinner, people are cutting back a little and instead making spaghetti and sitting around the dinner table talking. This ...
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Patterns, Patterns Everywhere
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... the patterns of the stock market in the long-term will get us to the goals we have for our family. We just need to ignore our neighbors. ...
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The Feel of This Market
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... and it might affect a family member who lives down the street. It has turned the notion of conservative banking on its head. But feeling this fear and living it are two different things. In markets ...
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The Biggest Estate Planning Mistake
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... This is a central tenet of leadership that gets missed. As the leader of the family, it is your job to make sure everyone has the vision of what the family as a whole is trying to accomplish through ...
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The 2008 Red Zone
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... nursing home care. This is up 7.5% from the $200,000 estimate in 2006. Discussing a long-term care plan (not just nursing home insurance) that includes your entire family is critical to understanding ...