Whenever you anticipate a life-changing event in your family – marriage, having a child, retirement, major illness.
Ask about your beneficiaries during your annual or semi-annual investment reviews.
Be aware of who’s designated as beneficiaries in each of your investment accounts – IRAs, 401(k)s, pensions, insurance and annuity contracts, bank and brokerage accounts. Be sure that you have named primary beneficiaries as well as contingent beneficiaries.
Contributing: Art Rothschild, Isabelle Wiemero
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Designating your beneficiaries, by Isabelle Wiemero
The ABCs of RMDs, by Clare McNamara
Moving on and sorting out, by Lisa Lewitzke
Plans to consider, by Lexie Brown
When a loved one passes, what happens to their accounts?, by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
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As our financial lives evolve, we often wonder at what point or how frequently to take certain actions toward our long-term goals. In an ongoing feature, investment advisors from Landaas & Company provide answers.
(initially posted Feb. 2, 2017)
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