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Back to the Basics: Revisiting an Enduring Strategy

In Articles, Articles: Kansas City Office, Back to the Basics, SLC Spring 2019, Spring 2019 by Scott Dougan

In a recent email from a very well-known firm in our industry, the subject line stated, ‘[this person] Shares A New Retirement Strategy.’ Always eager to add a new tool to the toolbox, I read further. What the article was sharing was a strategy that isn’t ‘New’, but it’s one that we’ve been using since the day Elevated Retirement Group’s …

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Back to the Basics Social Security Planning 101

In Articles, Articles: Kansas City Office, Back to the Basics, Tax Planning, Winter 2019 by Scott Dougan

Just a Few Drops Into the Ocean One of the core building blocks of a retirement income plan is Social Security. Earned over decades of working and paying taxes into the system, Social Security recipients have turned the corner and are now extracting income from this unique asset. But what’s so surprising is how nonchalant many retirees are about this …