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Financial Planning

Which Retirement Plan Suits You?

by Rose Greene, CFP on April 30, 2010

Here’s an overview of the retirement plan landscape, excerpted from a special section on our website, “IRA Rollovers for Dummies“. provided by Los Angeles Financial Planner Rose Greene, CFP® All retirement plans are not the same. In fact, there is such a wide variety of retirement plans that it is worth it to read up [...]
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Run the numbers, because the answer could be “yes.” provided by Los Angeles Financial Planner Rose Greene Financial, CFP ® An underreported story. In 2010, we have a wave of IRA owners converting traditional IRAs to Roths. There are all kinds of compelling reasons to make that move. Yet for some IRA owners, the conversion [...]
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What’s Going On With The Estate Tax?

by Rose Greene, CFP on March 23, 2010

Good question. Congress has elected to keep us in suspense. provided by Los Angeles Financial Planner, Rose Greene, CFP® 0% estate taxes in 2010 … for now, anyway. On January 1, the federal estate tax went away – at least for the time being and perhaps for all of 2010 as envisioned back in 2001. [...]
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Roth Ira Conversions for 2010 and What to Consider

by Rose Greene, CFP on March 16, 2010

A unique opportunity for IRA owners. provided by Los Angeles Financial Planner, Rose Greene, CFP® In 2010, anyone may convert a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA. No income limits will stand in the way of the conversion.1 Should you do it? Here’s why it may (or may not) make sense for you to go [...]
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Do You Need A Financial Planner?

by Rose Greene, CFP on March 3, 2010

What do they do? And should you have one? What does a financial planner do? Well, that depends. Many individuals refer to themselves as “financial planners”, but not all perform true multidisciplinary financial planning. Investment, insurance and tax professionals sometimes specialize in certain areas of financial planning (such as retirement planning, estate planning, tax planning, [...]
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