2024 Contribution Limits & Tax Reference
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Happy New Year and Happy Financial Wellness Month!
Happy New Year! January is not only a typical time for us to reflect on the previous year and fine tune our goals, it is Financial Wellness month. Financial Wellness isn’t tied to the amount of money we have, it has to do with how we feel about our financial life. The most [...]
Stock & Bond Returns During Election Years
The SECURE 2.0 Act, which was passed in December 2022, made a significant change to the IRS catch-up contribution rules. The catch-up contribution allows those aged 50 and above to contribute an additional $7,500 to an employer-sponsored pre-tax retirement plan.
Q4 2023 DWA Investment Update
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Q3 2023 Market Slides
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The Roth-Only Catch-Up Contribution Rule Will Get Time to Catch Up
The SECURE 2.0 Act, which was passed in December 2022, made a significant change to the IRS catch-up contribution rules. The catch-up contribution allows those aged 50 and above to contribute an additional $7,500 to an employer-sponsored pre-tax retirement plan.
October Market Commentary: A New Era for the Economy Creates Uncertainty
The outcome of the Fed's meeting in September was to hold rates at the current level. It has been described as a "hawkish pause," and the Fed was clear in post-meeting remarks and statements that one more increase is still possible in 2023.
Q2 2023 Market Slides
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When is the best time to invest?
Stephanie Griebel has taken a few minutes to record a video that highlights actual average returns investors would have experienced from 1926-2022 when investing at a new market high verses when the market has had a 10% decline. This provides some perspective around long-term investing success. We find most people never get the [...]
Secure 2.0 Act
Late last year, Congress enacted a new slate of legislature entitled, somewhat unimaginatively, the SECURE 2.0 Act. The intent of this new Act is to increase retirement savings by increasing the various ways to save across the ages.