Ben Kunes
Safe Money Retirement Group
Articles
401k Investment Tips: Essential Tools for Informed Choices
March 21, 2022
Manage your 401(k) for better performance You know that investing in your 401(k) is vital to your ...
Wall Street’s Latest Attempt To Create An Annuity: Bond Tents
March 23, 2022
Wall Street’s Latest Attempt To Create An Annuity: Bond TentsBeware of bond tents that are disguised ...
Understand Your Social Security Survivorship Benefits
March 21, 2022
Understand Your Social Security Survivorship BenefitsWhile painful for most of us to contemplate, death is nonetheless ...
Should I Buy Long-Term Care Insurance?
March 23, 2022
Should I Buy Long-Term Care Insurance?“Long term insurance protection for nursing home care does not have ...
The Float, Warren Buffett, Annuities and You
February 24, 2022
Understand how Warren Buffett uses float "Float" is defined as the time delay between a bank check being ...
Transparency It Had To Come We Knew It All Along
March 23, 2022
Transparency: It Had To Come We Knew It All AlongDisclosure Disclosure DisclosureOur grandson, Andrew, is a ...
The Good News: The Longer You Live, The Longer You Live
March 21, 2022
The Longer You Live, The Longer You Live“I have felt for a long time a sense ...
Sequence Of Returns Risk
March 23, 2022
The “sequence of returns risk” or “sequencing risk” refers to the possibility that the timing and order ...
What Are Annuities?
March 21, 2022
What Are Annuities?In its simplest definition, an annuity is a written contract between the annuity owner ...
Tax Scams: IRS Dirty Dozen
March 21, 2022
Tax Scams: IRS Dirty DozenIt is tax time, and with it will come many offers to ...
Making Retirement Savings Last
March 23, 2022
What is the number one worry for retirees?Not having enough money saved to last them in ...
Questions & Answers Regarding Probate
March 23, 2022
Questions & Answers Regarding ProbateWho is in charge of the probate process?The Will names a personal ...
The Tax Deferred Annuity
March 21, 2022
A tax-deferred annuity helps manage tax liability. A tax-deferred annuity is a plan in which income tax ...
The Great American Rip-Off
March 21, 2022
The idea of a 401(k) created by Congress was a beautiful idea. What is not attractive ...
One Of The Best Financial Products Of Which Few People Have Heard
March 23, 2022
As more and more seniors look for ways to lower their taxes in retirement, QLACs are ...
What Happens to your social security when you die?
March 21, 2022
What Happens To Your Social Security When You Die? What happens to your Social Security when ...
Avoiding Future Family Squabbles By Getting Started With Basic Estate Planning
March 21, 2022
Get Started with Basic Estate Planning Once you undertake the process, decisions need to be made and ...
Muni Bonds Generate Tax Free Interest - Or Do They?
March 21, 2022
Are Municipal Bonds Really Tax-Free?Municipal securities, also known as "munis," are bonds issued by governmental entities such as ...
Even “temporary” inflation can drain off large amounts of your wealth
March 23, 2022
Even “temporary” inflation can drain off large amounts of your wealth “Warren Buffet once pointed out that ...
Do You Know And Understand Your Risk Tolerance
March 23, 2022
Risk is the exposure to loss.The first thing to consider is What is Risk?Risk is the ...
Ben Kunes
Safe Money Retirement Group
6657 Winding Creek Way
St. Louis, Missouri 63129
ben.kunes@retirevillage.com
(314) 740-6278
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