Building a Financial Strategy That Will Endure
Building a Financial Strategy That Will Endure Like the Pyramids What’s the key to a financial strategy built to last? The pyramids of Giza have stood the test of time, …
Life Storms: Protecting Your Retirement From Multiple Threats
Life Storms: Protecting Your Retirement From Multiple Threats Gas prices and inflation are spiraling out of control. Investment accounts are suffering. Health costs keep rising. Taxes increases are expected. It’s …
Voted Bloomington Normal Area’s Best Financial Planning Office
Voted Bloomington Normal Area’s Best Financial Planning Office, Again! We are proud to announce, we have been chosen by Pantagraph Readers as Bloomington Normal Area’s Best Financial Planning Office! It’s …
A Financial Advisor’s Role is Like Fishing With Kids
A Financial Advisor’s Role is Like Fishing With Kids This summer, I realized my job as a financial advisor is in some regards, similar to a parent fishing with their …
Krista McBeath Author the Generational Wealth System
The Generational Wealth System by Krista McBeath A Holistic Approach to Preserving Your Wealth and Legacy I’m proud to finally announce the upcoming release of The Generational Wealth System, a …
Voted Bloomington Area’s Best Investment Firm, Best Financial Planning Office and Best Financial Planner
Voted Bloomington Area’s Best Investment Firm, Best Financial Planning Office and Best Financial Planner It’s official, The Pantagraph has announced McBeath Financial Group has been chosen as the Bloomington Area’s …
Fintech for Financial Planning
Fintech for Financial Planning 3 Reasons My Clients Love FinTech (Even If They Don’t Know What That Is) Like many kids I learned to play the piano; I was taught …
The Sweat and Stress Driven By Love
The Sweat and Stress Driven By Love My brother’s two boys needed a little happiness in their lives after the recent events. I knew I had to do something to …
Transferring Wealth While Living
Strategies for Transferring Wealth to the Next Generation Planning for the transfer of your wealth to loved ones may be the most rewarding result of a comprehensive financial plan. So …
Life Insurance Planning for Needs
Who Needs Another Life Insurance Pitch? Have you seen the Bill Murray movie, Groundhog Day? No matter how many times I watch it, one scene always has me laughing. It’s …
Fresh Perspective on Financial Planning
Bathroom Reno Snags Give a Fresh Perspective on Financial Planning As you might expect from a financial planner, masterminding has always been a virtue of mine. As a teenager, I …
Bloomington Normal Area Best Financial Planner and Best Investment Firm 2020
Voted Bloomington Normal Area’s Best Financial Planner and Best Investment Firm for 2020! Bloomington Normal Area, we thank you once again for voting McBeath Financial Group as your first choice …
Convert Savings Into Retirement Income
How Do You Convert Savings into Retirement Income? How to turn retirement savings accounts into a steady income stream is one of the most crucial questions most people will want …
Save Taxes In Retirement
Does the Rapid Market Recovery Signal a Missed Opportunity to Save Taxes in Retirement? The Market Drop May Have Been a Huge Opportunity for a Tax-Free Retirement Sheltering in place …
DIY Financial Planner Problems
Why are DIY Financial Planners Turning to Financial Advisors? “I’ve Got a 401k and Social Security. Why Do I Need a Financial Planner?” Is often said as people enter retirement. …
Why You Need a Financial Planner and an Investment Advisor for Retirement
I’d like to explain what I feel are the two most crucial roles to actually helping people achieve their financial goals: financial planning and investment management. While a financial planner and an investment advisor may be the same individual, ideally they each fulfill two separate purposes.
Financial Planning for Loss of a Spouse
Financial planning for loss of a spouse can help ease the burden emotionally and financially at the most difficult times.
This Rookie’s Contract Like a Well-Timed Fixed Annuity
A Lesson in Locking in Financial Security from an Unlikely Cubs Newcomer I loved the Cinderella story of this Cubs newcomer even before he displayed his financial savvy. When he …
Best Investment Firm and Financial Planner: McBeath Financial Group Chosen Again!
Best Investment Firm and Financial Planner: McBeath Financial Group Chosen Again! Pantagraph Reader’s Choice Awards for 2019 announced that once again we were chosen for two first place awards! Central …
Everyone Has a Financial Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth
Everyone Has a Financial Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth Mike Tyson is probably the last person you’d want to take financial advice from, but you may want …
Nobody Ever Frames Their Financial Plan
Nobody Ever Frames Their Financial Plan Most of my clients will never realize how much detail and attention I put towards building their comprehensive financial plan. When I create these …
Don’t Buy an Annuity Before Reading This!
Before You Buy an Annuity, You Need to Know This! Purchasing an annuity might be a huge mistake for you! I’m not saying annuities are bad products. In fact, I …
Is Fear Putting Your Financial Plan at Risk?
Is Fear Putting Your Financial Plan at Risk? Some say the old mansion is haunted, and I live just down the road from it! It’s the Duncan Manor, a historic …
Best in Financial Planning and Investment Firm, McBeath Financial Group Voted as Pantagraph Reader’s Choice!
Awarded #1 for Best in Financial Planning and #1 Investment Firm, McBeath Financial Group is Proud to be The Pantagraph Reader’s Choice! Yes, Pantagraph Reader’s Choice Awards for 2018 have been …
Facing SF Employment Severance: Questions About Your Benefits?
Facing SF Employment Severance: Questions About Your Benefits? With yet another wave of workforce reductions, as a financial advisor, I find myself answering some all too familiar questions. With anxiety …
Should You Take the Employee Buyout Option?
All around us, companies are restructuring. Maybe artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithms are taking over, maybe a new CEO comes in and changes everything, or maybe market conditions are forcing …
Hammered into an Investment?
The Investment Services Toolbox: Avoiding “Maslow’s Hammer” “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” American …
Look at Who Can’t Retire at 55!
Rock Star Sammy Hagar can’t retire at 55, but maybe you can! Maybe you remember Sammy Hagar’s song “I can’t drive 55!” back in 1984 before he joined the music …
How Could the New Tax Plan Affect My 401K Options When I Retire?
You might have seen the news about how Trump’s initial tax plan might have affected IRA limits. It appears those changes did not make it into the final legislation, but …
What Am I Supposed to Do Now?!
Let’s face it. Sometimes you can do everything right, and it still feels like you end up getting a raw deal. You want to scream your frustrations at the world. …