Estate, Retirement, & Investment Planning
Ronald G. Smith Capital Management Advisory, Inc. of Powhatan, VA is committed to helping you pursue your long-term financial goals.
As specialists in retirement planning and estate conservation, we can help you answer the questions you may have about your financial future, such as:
- Will I be able to retire early?
- How much money will I need in order to retire?
- How can I get the most out of my 401(k)?
- Should I have a traditional IRA or a Roth IRA?
- How can I maximize the return on my investments while reducing risk?
- How can I "inflation-proof" my investment income?
- Do I need disability insurance? Long-term care insurance?
- How can I ensure that my children receive as much as possible from my estate?
- What do I need to know about wills, trusts, and probate?
Helpful Content
Errors and Omissions Insurance
E&O insurance is specifically designed to protect you, or your company, from the risk of a client’s dissatisfaction.
Orchestrating Your Retirement Accounts
Getting the instruments of your retirement to work in concert may go far in realizing the retirement you imagine.
A Brief Guide To Condo Insurance
Important items to consider when purchasing condo insurance.
Money that Buys Good Health is Never Ill Spent
It's important to make sure your retirement strategy anticipates health-care expenses.
Choosing a Retirement Plan that Fits Your Business
To choose a plan, it’s important to ask yourself four key questions.
Four Really Good Reasons to Invest
There are four very good reasons to start investing. Do you know what they are?
Don’t Be Your Own Worst Enemy
Emotional biases can adversely impact financial decision making. Here’s a few to be mindful of.
A Home Insurance Claim: To File Or Not To File
Learn when it may not make sense to file a claim on your home insurance.
Best-Performing Asset Classes
Bonds may outperform stocks one year only to have stocks rebound the next.
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What Is the Dividend Yield?
This calculator helps determine your pre-tax and after-tax dividend yield on a particular stock.
My Retirement Savings
Estimate how long your retirement savings may last using various monthly cash flow rates.
Social Security Taxes
Estimate how much of your Social Security benefit may be considered taxable.
How Compound Interest Works
Use this calculator to better see the potential impact of compound interest on an asset.
Should I Buy or Lease an Auto?
This calculator compares the financial impact of leasing versus buying an automobile.
A Look at Systematic Withdrawals
This calculator may help you estimate how long funds may last given regular withdrawals.
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Long-Term-Care Protection Strategies
The chances of needing long-term care, its cost, and strategies for covering that cost.
Your Cash Flow Statement
A presentation about managing money: using it, saving it, and even getting credit.
Managing Your Lifestyle
Using smart management to get more of what you want and free up assets to invest.
An Inside Look at Retirement Living
A number of questions and concerns need to be addressed to help you better prepare for retirement living.
5 Smart Investing Strategies
There are some smart strategies that may help you pursue your investment objectives
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
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An Arm and a Leg
A visit to the hospital can be painful, for both your body and your wallet. Don’t let it be more painful than it has to be.
The Business Cycle
How will you weather the ups and downs of the business cycle?
Forecast
The market is as unpredictable as the weather. We’d love to help you prepare.
Events on Wall Street
Can successful investors predict changes in the markets? Some can but others miss the market’s signals.
Acres of Diamonds
In life it often happens that the answers to our most pressing questions are right in our own backyards.
18 Years Worth of Days
The average retirement lasts for 18 years. Are you prepared to fill that many days?