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Did Your Child Earn Money Last Year? You Can Open a Roth IRA for Them.

This is the story of how I filed my 14-year-old daughter’s taxes, and then opened, funded, and invested a Roth IRA for her, for tax year 2023. Piecing this process
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I Work with Early to Mid Career Clients. Why Did I Get a Retirement Professional Designation?

If you look at our website—and please do! I quite like it—you’ll see that we ask “Are you a woman in your early to mid career in tech?” That’s the
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Maybe You Can’t Retire Yet, But Can You Stop Worrying About Earning as Much?

Some of our clients go through an IPO and come out the other end financially independent. Thirty-five years old, with $10M in the bank? Check. (Technically, not the bank, but
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You Have Millions of Dollars. Perhaps You *Can* Invest in Fancy Investments, But You Needn’t.

We work with plenty of clients who, at an enviably young age, already have a portfolio worth millions of dollars. (Thank you, IPOs.)
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Magical (“Magical”) Personal Finance Tactics

Are you tempted to believe that there are magical solutions to your financial problems?
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What Should You Do with Your Giant Pile of Company Stock?

Have you decided you want to do something about all this company stock, but you’re stymied by not knowing how? It’s a giant elephant, and you have no idea how
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Emergency funds. Yes, they’re boring. But do you actually have one that’s big enough?

January 21, 2019
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