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Claiming Social Security: Sooner or later?
How soon to claim Social Security benefits is essential in retirement planning. Steve Giles offers pros and cons to weigh.
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Talking Money: Growth Investing
To foster financial literacy, the Talking Money feature covers common terms and concepts used in personal finance and investing. This edition, from Kyle Tetting, looks at growth investing.
Talking Money: Inflation
To foster financial literacy, the Talking Money feature covers common terms and concepts used in personal finance and investing. In this edition, Adam Baley answers questions about inflation and what it means to investors.
Year-end IRA tidying
The end of the year is a good time for wise investors to take the opportunity to review, among other things, their retirement accounts. To help you consider what to do about your IRAs (Individual Retirement Arrangements), Debi Rybicki answered some frequently asked questions.
A cloud of feedback
Responses from more than 100 clients at a recent Landaas & Company function resulted in this computer-generated word cloud. Clients were asked, “What do you like about Landaas & Company?” Words show up more or less prominently depending on how frequently they were mentioned in the responses. initially posted Sept. 26, 2012 Go to Money…
Talking Money: Quantitative Easing
To foster financial literacy, we regularly feature discussions on common terms and concepts used in personal finance and investing. Here’s an article from Joel Dresang and Tom Pappenfus on quantitative easing. Central national banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, have ways of trying to stir a stagnant economy by encouraging spending and investments. The most…
Higher service
To further enhance its customer service, Landaas & Company has added two new investor associates, Tom Pappenfus and Mike Hoelzl. Tom came to the firm as a summer intern and quickly showed his enthusiasm for financial services and working with clients. “My passion for finance and investing started in high school and continued through college…