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Aligning Your Finances at Home and Work
Fiscal unity with a significant other helps veterinarians thrive with less personal and professional strain.
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Roth Contributions and Your 401(k)
Investors sometimes need to be prognosticators when earmarking pretax and after-tax dollars.
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Updating Your Clinic’s Retirement Plan
Tax credits, automatic enrollment, contribution limits and catch-ups are all factors you should consider when updating your veterinary practice's retirement plan.
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Understanding Student Loan Consolidation: Is It Right for You?
Key tips to student loan consolidation and managing them wisely.
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What Are You Doing With All That Cash?
Plowing money into a business checking account benefits the financial institution, not you or your practice.
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How Much Do You Need for Retirement?
While there’s no magic number, financial planning can prepare you for an era of serenity.
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The Importance of Emergency Savings
Stockpiling what-if cash turns life’s emergencies into mere inconveniences.
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Start 2025 on the Right Financial Foot
The clock is ticking on all the ways you can shore up your accounts, reduce taxes, and plan for the unexpected or inevitable.
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A Guide to Getting Started in Investing Money
When is the right time to invest my money? How do I get started? This personal finance guide covers the biggest questions for veterinary professionals.
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Tilting the Balance in Your Favor
One defined benefit plan offers business owners higher contributions for retirement and more tax advantages.
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What Did We Learn About SECURE 2.0?
Retirement plans, employer incentives and participant options have improved and will continue to do so.
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Choosing the Best Retirement Plan
Your practice might need an overhaul if you neglect to monitor a few key performance indicators.
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What to Look for in a Financial Adviser
Every strategy, decision and recommendation must have your best interests at heart.
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Are You on Track to Financial Freedom?
Failing to save and not setting long-term goals are two of the deepest potholes on the road to success.
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How to Choose a 401(k) Partner
Plan recordkeepers and their fee structures vary widely. An independent adviser can translate the fine print.
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Investing for Uncertainty
Patience is an asset that pays off over the long term. Follow these three tips for creating a sound investment plan.
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Save and Secure
A new federal law presents more retirement planning opportunities for veterinary practices and team members.
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Overcoming Financial Inertia
Create positive momentum for your money and assets by setting deadlines and tying up loose ends.
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Control the Controllables
Good habits and sound decisions are essential in practice ownership and personal finance.
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Uncertainty, Optimism and Crystal Balls
Investors who allow their emotions to guide their investment decisions often end up on the wrong financial path.
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Planning in the Face of Uncertainty
Don’t allow world events to cloud your approach to saving for retirement.
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First of All, Get a Second Opinion
Your practice’s employee retirement plan might need a couple of tweaks to go from average to outstanding.
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Inflation and Your Investments
Make sound investment decisions based on a comprehensive view of your life rather than current market conditions.
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Work on Your Clinic’s Retirement Plan
To attract, retain and reward employees, practice owners must offer competitive compensation as well as a properly designed retirement plan.
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Build a Financial Foundation
Don’t consider investing until your financial house is in order.
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Manage Your Emotions
Understand why you make irrational choices with your investments and what you can do about it.
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Sell Now or Later?
What likely will be the biggest financial decision of your life shouldn’t be made in haste. You can sell your practice quickly to a consolidator, hand off to an associate in 10 years or do something in between. Weigh your options and the pros and cons.
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Did You Catch a Financial Virus?
If your portfolio is sickly, you better have a treatment plan. A simple 10-part test can help determine whether you should get a second opinion.
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Retirement Plans Work for You
The investment program you and your employees participate in might not be the same one everyone turns to when it’s time to step away from the practice.
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How COVID-19 Affects Your Student Loans
Conserving cash is a smart move during these trying times even as the government steps in with relief for borrowers.
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Enjoy a Successful Investment Experience
Following 10 principles will help propel your financial portfolio to the next level.
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How to Survive in an Uncertain World
If you don’t control your money, your money will control you and you will be unable to achieve peace and contentment.
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Make effective use of your team
Veterinarians generate active income. The all-important passive income starts with the staff members.