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Iowa retirement planning

Retiring in Iowa? Read This First!

People approaching retirement look at five different components when scouting for locations: proximity to family and friends, affordability, health-care accessibility, weather, and crime. While sunny Florida might come first to mind as a retirement spot that meets those criteria, Iowa is becoming an increasingly popular place for retirees.  America’s Heartland has not been getting enough […]

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Pros and Cons of Financial Calculators.

Estimating your retirement needs with an online calculator can offer an anonymous, low-commitment method to help obtain the basic estimates you need to get started and know how much money you need to retire comfortably.  But not all retirement calculators are created equal.  According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute’s most recent retirement confidence survey,

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