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Financial Planning – Clarendon Hills, IL

The most popular misunderstanding regarding financial planning is that it is centered on investing. Needless to say investing is a part of financial planning as you should make intelligent investment choices, but there's a lot more to it. Financial Planning is the process of developing strategies to help you manage your financial affairs efficiently and meet financial targets. It's a holistic method that can help you make smarter decisions by turning vague targets into concrete plans, offering a map for action. Having a financial plan - and sticking to it - provides you with a true advantage when it comes to planning your retirement as well as other long-term financial and life goals.

Saving For Retirement and Your Child's Education - Clarendon Hills, IL

Often people say that they are saving for retirement or saving for their children's education. They could be seen as precise goals, but they're really quite vague. Financial planning can find the important numbers - How much should you save and by when? If you are not sure whether or not you will have enough to live on post-retirement, it can create anxiety. But once you know what you have to do and that you are following the financial plan, it gives you peace of mind and confidence. When your situation changes from single to married, from renting to buying a home, having kids or caring for aging parents, financial planning can help you make better-informed choices.

Certified Financial Planner - Clarendon Hills, IL

The majority of people don't have limitless resources. In such a scenario, Financial Planning through a Certified Financial Planner can offer advice on how best to make educated decisions and prudently use the restricted resources for attaining financial freedom. Say, if you have identified retirement and funding your child's education as your financial targets, but you only have Rs. 1,000 extra every year to achieve these targets, a Certified Financial Planner can help you choose among your priorities. Whatever you decide, you will have the peace of mind of knowing that a specialist has reviewed your needs and that you're doing something beneficial for your financial situation. Financial planning provides a road map with an action plan that - if implemented faithfully - will take you where you want to go fiscally.

Missing the big picture is a problem seen too frequently with clients. If you are devoted to the near-term rather than on broader long-term implications, then you might end up impairing the build up of wealth. For instance, depending on pre-tax returns for financial decision-making as opposed to understanding that various kinds of investments are subject to differing tax rates might be damaging for your financial well-being. A Certified Financial Planner will make you understand that the type of investment you choose impacts the after-tax return. Remember, it's not about the returns an investment creates; it's about the net income that comes in your hands. Many of you fail to realize the delayed tax implications on the potential nest eggs. It's pre-tax returns you're worried about and you fail to realize that there will be a drag on the ultimate amount of cash you will have because of the tax liability that's waiting for you.

Impact of Financial Planning - Clarendon Hills, IL

The influence of sound financial planning on overall financial well-being is multifold and also multidimensional. In fact if you think of your financial life as a flywheel, with financial planning as the middle, each of the various elements of your financial life - like buying a home, saving for retirement, planning for your children's education, owning your ideal car, debt management etc - are spokes to the wheel. Once you begin to make progress along every one of those spokes, you'll begin to gain traction all round, and you will see your ability to understand your financial targets really begin to take off. Further, everyone knows that one of the greatest causes of stress and conflict in relationships is cash. Individuals and also families who've planned out a financial path appreciate greater well-being, worry less, sleep better and have strong relationships.

Financial Planning is a life process. Ideally, you need to meet a financial planner as soon as possible in your life and begin a long-term relationship. Then meet regularly to review the Financial Plan to make sure you're on track.

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