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Independence Financial Consultants
Is your financial life in order?
Are you on your way to meeting your goals and maintaining your values?
If your answer is anything but yes, maybe you don’t have a sound, sensible financial plan.
Ongoing comprehensive financial planning, tailored to your specific needs, can make the difference between hoping, and knowing that you’re making the right decisions.
Backed by long years of experience, Independence Financial Consultants has the goal of guiding business owners, executives and other professionals to correcting, and more importantly, potentially preventing financial mistakes. To save clients time and money, we coordinate advice with your team of professional advisors, and objectively guide you through the vast array of financial products available. Independence Financial Consultants has the knowledge, resources and dedication to create plans for making your dreams, for today and tomorrow, come true. We never forget it’s your money and your life in the balance!
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For Small Business Owners | For Executives | For Other Professionals |
Working in an increasingly complex economic environment, small business owners must respond to the multiple challenges of running a business, supporting a family and looking to the future. With years of hands-on experience with large, medium and small businesses, Independence Financial Consultants is uniquely positioned to guide business owners through the complexities of business growth and protection, succession and tax planning, cash flow, and employee relationships. | Balancing responsibilities to your firm and family is never easy. To help executives meet the unique challenges they face, Independence Financial Consultants provides guidance on such topics as executive bonuses and compensation, qualified and non-qualified compensation plans, stock options, estate and tax planning, and the many other considerations pertinent to business leaders who aren’t self-employed. | For other career-minded individuals, balancing work and family responsibilities isn’t easy either, particularly in times of economic uncertainty. To help professionals meet the unique challenges they face, Independence Financial Consultants provides guidance on such topics as cash flow and debt management, optimal use of employee benefit plans, job and employer changes, retirement, tax and estate planning. |
Helpful Content
Estimate Your RMD
Calculate your required minimum distribution amount based on your account balance and age.
How Much Home Can I Afford?
Estimate how much home may fit within your budget based on income and expenses.
My Retirement Savings
See how your current savings rate and contributions may grow into retirement income.
What to Look for in an Extended-Care Policy
Here’s a list of 8 questions to ask that may help you better understand the costs and benefits of extended-care insurance.
You May Need to Make Estimated Tax Payments If…
Have income that isn’t subject to tax withholding? Or insufficient withholdings? You may have to pay estimated taxes.
Retirement Income and the Traditional Portfolio
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Will Power
Preparing for the eventual distribution of your assets may not sound enticing. But a will puts the power in your hands.
Retirement Strategy After a Job Loss
Job loss can shake both finances and confidence, reassessing your retirement strategy is key to moving forward with clarity.
Tax & Estate Strategies for Married LGBTQ+ Couples
Learn how to maximize your tax and estate strategy as a married member of the LGBTQ+ community.
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Wedding Budget Calculator
Estimate total wedding costs and see how different choices affect your overall budget.
Comparing Investments
Compare two different scenarios side by side to see how they stack up over time.
How Much Home Can I Afford?
Estimate how much home may fit within your budget based on income and expenses.
Student Loan Refinance Calculator
Compare your current student loan terms to a potential refinance to see if it makes sense.
Federal Capital Gains Tax Estimator
Estimate your potential federal capital gains tax liability on the sale of an asset.
Inflation & Retirement
See how inflation over time could affect the purchasing power of your retirement income.
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When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
The Richest Man in Babylon
In good times and bad, consistently saving a percentage of your income is a sound financial practice.
Surprise! You’ve Got Money!
Here’s a quick guide to checking to see if you have unclaimed money.
Surprises
Making the most of surprises is a great reason to work with us.
Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
Behavioral Finance
An amusing and whimsical look at behavioral finance best practices for investors.