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Retirement Planning Articles

A counterweight supports an interconnected advisor relationship while separate objects represent services or costs outside the quoted fee.
Ross Marino | Jul 16, 2026

How Much Does a Financial Advisor Cost, and What Should the Fee Include?

Retirement Planning for Single Women
Working With an Advisor
Investments
Two advisor proposals can show different fees because they include different work. Compare annual cost, planning scope, access, investment expenses, and
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A colorful printing press combines several coordinated stages while specialists inspect and return the finished proof for review, illustrating how relevant experience becomes visible through the work performed.
Ross Marino | Jul 16, 2026

How Can You Tell Whether a Financial Advisor Has Retirement-Planning Experience?

Retirement Income
Retirement Timing
Working With an Advisor
Credentials and years in business are part of the picture. Learn how to identify recurring retirement work, connected advice, and an ongoing review process.
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A tailor adjusts a well-made jacket on a dress form, illustrating how approaching retirement can call for a fresh review of an existing advisor relationship.
Ross Marino | Jul 16, 2026

Is Your Financial Advisor Still the Right Fit as Retirement Gets Closer?

Working With an Advisor
Retirement Timing
Retirement Income
Medicare
Social Security
Retirement changes the work an advisor relationship must support. Learn how to reassess scope, coordination, and ongoing review before your paycheck ends.
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Three bright dimensional lenses are labeled Fee-Only, Fiduciary, and CFP®. Each lens reveals a different part of an advisor relationship: compensation, duty, or certification.
Ross Marino | Jul 16, 2026

Fee-Only, Fiduciary and CFP®: What Does Each Tell You About a Financial Advisor?

Working With an Advisor
Fee-only, fiduciary and CFP® describe different parts of an advisor relationship. Learn what each confirms, what remains open and what to verify.
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A couple stands together in a bright cottage garden, reflecting on a shared retirement future and the timing choices that can shape it.
Ross Marino | Jul 16, 2026

Retire Together or Stagger the Dates? What Each Path Protects

Retirement Timing
Healthcare & Longevity
Medicare
Social Security
Work & Identity
Retiring together protects shared time. Staggering may preserve income, health coverage, or flexibility. Compare what each path protects before choosing dates.
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An older adult views three different colorful sculptures, each presented through an identical dark blue frame in a garden.
Ross Marino | Jul 14, 2026

How to Compare Financial Advisors: What to Ask and What to Verify

Working With an Advisor
A useful advisor comparison examines what the relationship promises and what the documents establish. Records and lived usability complete the picture.
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Two adults approach the same circular room through different, equally welcoming entrances, representing each partner’s access to one shared advisory process.
Ross Marino | Jul 14, 2026

Choosing an Advisor as a Couple

Working With an Advisor
Choose an advisor both partners can understand and use. Compare the professional baseline with how the relationship includes each of you.
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A woman directs a community theater rehearsal, illustrating how a capable decision-maker can define the support others provide.
Ross Marino | Jul 14, 2026

Choosing an Advisor When Single

Retirement Planning for Single Women
Working With an Advisor
Choosing a retirement advisor involves more than credentials. See how to evaluate professional standards, retirement work, and a relationship that preserves
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Two empty chairs and mugs in a quiet living room suggest making space for an early conversation about future care before choices become urgent.
Ross Marino | Jul 13, 2026

Protecting Voice, Not Predicting Decline: A Better Way to Start Aging-Parent Talks

Family Support
Healthcare & Longevity
Estate Planning & Legacy
Recordkeeping
Family Support, Healthcare & Longevity, Estate Planning & Legacy, Recordkeeping
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Ross Marino | Jul 11, 2026

When One Spouse Handles Most of the Finances

Estate Planning & Legacy
Recordkeeping
Risk Management
Working With an Advisor
One spouse can keep handling the finances while both people share a usable map of the household, its records, and confirmed authority.
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Four labeled crates on a lakeside dock separate recurring needs, flexible spending, what should stay available, and what may need review later.
Ross Marino | Jul 9, 2026

What Can We Actually Spend in Retirement?

Retirement Spending
Retirement Income
Healthcare & Longevity
Tax Planning
A retirement spending decision becomes more actionable when you can see what it supports now, what remains protected, and when to revisit it.
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Water passes through an RMD gate into a tax return basin, with ripples extending toward separate downstream areas.
Ross Marino | Jul 9, 2026

Reviewing Choices Before RMDs Begin

RMD
Roth Conversions
Tax Planning
Medicare
Charitable Giving
The years before RMDs begin may offer more choice over taxable income. See what can still be compared before required withdrawals enter the picture.
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