8 Year-End Tax Strategies To Help You Maximize 2025 Savings – And Beyond

By: Juan Carlos Medina, CFP, focuses on holistic financial wellness.

With 2025 quickly winding down you still have some time to lower your tax bill and help plan for the years ahead. With some new opportunities due to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act these 8 tax tips can help you finish this year strong and help put your best foot forward in 2026.

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Financial Planning: Helping You See the Big Picture

By: Broadridge Advisor Solutions

Do you picture yourself owning a new home, starting a business, or retiring comfortably? These are a few of the financial goals that may be important to you, and each comes with a price tag attached.

That’s where financial planning comes in. Financial planning is a process that can help you target your goals by evaluating your whole financial picture, then outlining strategies that are tailored to your individual needs and available resources.

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The Social Security Fairness Act: Great News for Millions of Public Service Employees

March 2025

The Social Security Fairness Act is a bill signed into law that repeals several decades-old provisions that previously reduced your Social Security benefits if you or a spouse received a pension from a non-Social Security covered job, and now restores these benefits, allowing you to receive the full Social Security retirement benefits earned based on individual work histories. In this article, we will discuss Social Security and how the changes may impact you and your financial outlook and ensure your strategies align with your financial goals.

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AI Advances and Tariff Tactics

February 2025

The new month brings two major market-moving stories to digest. First is the advances in artificial intelligence (AI) by Chinese startup DeepSeek. It has caused some investors to question America’s lead in the AI race and American Exceptionalism more broadly. To answer that question, it’s important to look at this idea holistically.  U.S. advantages in research and development spending, capital markets depth, the dollar’s privilege as the global reserve currency, and more suggest U.S. exceptionalism will remain intact.

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