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At Hill & Associates, we want to help you create your personal success roadmap, designed to guide you to your desired financial destination. We seek to simplify complex financial terms and investment options, offer honest advice, and help you to navigate whatever financial complexities life happens to send your way. By offering ongoing education, we strive to empower you to confidently make decisions and to take an active role in your financial strategies.
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Password Protection Strategies
Simple steps may help you foil hackers and protect your privacy.
Does Your Portfolio Fit Your Retirement Lifestyle?
Lifestyle considerations in creating your retirement portfolio.
Errors and Omissions Insurance
E&O insurance is specifically designed to protect you, or your company, from the risk of a client’s dissatisfaction.
The ABC’s of Auto Insurance
What kind of auto insurance should you have? Do you know?
When to Self-Insure
Choosing to bear the financial burden of an adverse event is called self-insuring. Do you know what that entails?
The Lowdown on Those Free Credit Scores
What’s the deal with your yearly free credit report?
Red Flags for Tax Auditors
Here are six flags that may make your tax return prime for an IRS audit.
Can Group, Private Disability Policies Work Together?
Loss of income from disability has the potential to cause financial hardship. Disability insurance can help.
Pay Yourself First
It sounds simple, but paying yourself first can really pay off.
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Historical Inflation
This calculator shows how inflation over the years has impacted purchasing power.
Disability Income
This calculator estimates your chances of becoming disabled and your potential need for disability insurance.
Saving for College
This calculator can help you estimate how much you should be saving for college.
Should I Buy or Lease an Auto?
This calculator compares the financial impact of leasing versus buying an automobile.
Taxable vs. Tax-Deferred Savings
Use this calculator to compare the future value of investments with different tax consequences.
Inflation & Retirement
Estimate how much income may be needed at retirement to maintain your standard of living.
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Investment Strategies for Retirement
Investment tools and strategies that can enable you to pursue your retirement goals.
An Inside Look at Retirement Living
A number of questions and concerns need to be addressed to help you better prepare for retirement living.
Retirement Plan Distributions
There are a number of ways to withdraw money from a qualified retirement plan.
5 Smart Investing Strategies
There are some smart strategies that may help you pursue your investment objectives
Long-Term-Care Protection Strategies
The chances of needing long-term care, its cost, and strategies for covering that cost.
5 Smart Investing Principles
Principles that can help create a portfolio designed to pursue investment goals.
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RE: Retirement
How does your ideal retirement differ from reality, and what can we do to better align the two?
Women and Retirement
Women must be ready to spend, on average, more years in retirement than men.
Your DNA Test
If your family relies on your income, it’s critical to know what their needs would be in the event of your death.
A New Way to Look at Your Bucket List
That big list of dreams and goals isn't the only way to look at your bucket list.
What Smart Investors Know
Smart investors take the time to separate emotion from fact.
Coaches
Coaches have helped you your whole life, in ways big and small. We’d like to be one of them.