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Financial Planning / Investments / Risk / Safe Money / Uncategorized

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, …

Financial Planning / Retirement / Retirement Planning / Risk / Tax Planning

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 …

Financial Planning / News About McBeath Financial Group

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 …

Financial Planning / Investments

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 of The Generational Wealth System
Estate Planning / News About McBeath Financial Group / Uncategorized

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 …

Financial Planning / investment advisor

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 …

Financial Technology use in Financial Planning
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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 …

Financial Planning

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 to the next generation.
Estate Planning / Financial Planning / Tax Planning

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 …

Financial Planning / life insurance

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 …

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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 Best Investment Advisor 2020
Financial Planning / investment advisor

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 …

How to convert retirement savings accounts into monthly income Bloomington IL
401K / Annuities / Annuities / ETFs / Financial Planning / IRA and Roth IRA / Retirement / Retirement Planning / Safe Money

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 …

401K / Financial Planning / IRA and Roth IRA / Retirement Planning / Roth Conversion / Tax Planning

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 Planning
Financial Planning / investment advisor / Retirement / Retirement Planning

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. …

Financial Planner and Investment Advisor Can Avoid Help Avoid Retirement Tragedies
Financial Planning / investment advisor / Retirement / Retirement Planning

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.

Estate Planning / Financial Planning / life insurance / Women's Finance

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.

401K / Annuities / Annuities / Financial Planning / Investments / Retirement / Risk / Safe Money

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 …

Financial Planning / Investments

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 …

Financial Planning / Retirement

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 …

Financial Planning

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 …

Annuities / Annuities / education / Investments / Safe Money

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 …

Financial Planning / Investments / Risk

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 …

Financial Planning / Investments

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 …

Early Retirement Offer / Retirement

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 …

Early Retirement Offer

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 …

Financial Planning / Investments / Uncategorized

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 …

Early Retirement Offer / Financial Planning / Retirement

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 …

Financial Planning / Investments / IRA and Roth IRA / Tax Planning

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 …

Early Retirement Offer / Financial Planning

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. …

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