Uncommon Financial Thinking for Uncommon Results
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.
Based in Syracuse, New York, we work with clients throughout the country. In everything we do, our goal is to passionately serve you by nurturing lifelong relationships built on trust and performance. Contact us
Helpful Content
Inflation & Your Money
It's important to understand how inflation is reported and how it can affect investments.
Tax Freedom Day
Assess how many days you'll work to pay your federal tax liability.
Rebalancing Your Portfolio
Over time, different investments' performances can shift a portfolio’s intent and risk profile. Rebalancing may be critical.
Keep Your Umbrella Handy
Umbrella liability can be a fairly inexpensive way to help shelter current assets and future income from the unexpected.
What’s Your Investment IQ?
You make decisions for your portfolio, but how much do you really know about the products you buy? Try this quiz
Insurance Needs Assessment: When You're Newly Married
Marriage changes everything, including your insurance needs.
Debt Stress
There’s a link between debt and stress.
Estate Management Checklist
Is your estate in order? This short quiz may help you assess your overall strategy.
Good Health is Good Business
Good employee health can be great for the company’s bottom line.
View all articles 
What's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
Comparing Mortgage Terms
Estimate the total cost in today's dollars of various mortgage alternatives.
What Is My Current Cash Flow?
Assess whether you are running “in the black” or “in the red” each month.
What Is My Life Expectancy?
Estimate how many years you may need retirement assets or how long to provide income to a surviving spouse or children.
Annuity Comparison
This calculator compares a hypothetical fixed annuity with an account where the interest is taxed each year.
Lifetime of Earnings
Estimate how much you have the potential to earn during your working years.
View all calculators
Managing Your Lifestyle
Using smart management to get more of what you want and free up assets to invest.
An Inside Look at Retirement Living
A number of questions and concerns need to be addressed to help you better prepare for retirement living.
Your Cash Flow Statement
A presentation about managing money: using it, saving it, and even getting credit.
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.
5 Smart Investing Strategies
There are some smart strategies that may help you pursue your investment objectives
View all presentations
Should You Tap Retirement Savings to Fund College?
There are three things to consider before dipping into retirement savings to pay for college.
Leaving Your Lasting Legacy
Want to do more with your wealth? You might want to consider creating a charitable foundation.
Encore Careers: Push Your Boundaries
Ready for retirement? Find out why many are considering encore careers and push your boundaries into something more, here.
Timing Your Retirement
This short video illustrates why knowing when to retire can be a crucial part of your strategy.
Bursting the Bubble
Tulips were the first, but they won’t be the last. What forms a “bubble” and what causes them to burst?
Bridging the Confidence Gap
In the world of finance, the effects of the "confidence gap" can be especially apparent.