by Julie Long | Oct 8, 2026 | General, Income, Retirement Planning, Retirement Savings, Retirement Strategy
You know how important it is to plan for your retirement, but where do you begin? One of your first steps should be to estimate how much income you’ll need to fund your retirement. That’s not as easy as it sounds, because retirement planning is not an...
by Julie Long | Oct 9, 2025 | General, Interest Rates, Investment, News, Retirement
On September 17, 2025, the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) lowered the target range for the benchmark federal funds rate by one-quarter percentage point — the first rate cut in nine months. This brought the range to 4.0%–4.25% and resumed...