Understanding Today’s Financial Environment
Welcome, I’m Stephen Kjer, a financial professional in West Bend, Wisconsin. We understand that individuals face unique challenges as they prepare for retirement. We can help take the mystery out of preparing for today and tomorrow. Whether your goal is saving for retirement, college savings, or estate strategy, our personalized service focuses your needs, wants, and financial goals and objectives.
Our professionals have years of experience in financial services. We provide accounting and tax services so we know how to make it all come together. We can help you address your needs of today and for many years to come.
Call us at (262) 338-6621 - we look forward to working with you through all stages of your life.
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Errors and Omissions Insurance
E&O insurance is specifically designed to protect you, or your company, from the risk of a client’s dissatisfaction.
A Living Trust Primer
Living trusts are popular, but their appropriateness will depend upon your individual needs and objectives.
How Financial Advisors Are Compensated
Read this overview to learn how financial advisors are compensated.
Spotting Credit Trouble
The wise use of credit is a critical skill. These 10 questions will help you assess your skill level.
Tips for Finding Care for Your Special-Needs Child
The care of special-needs children continues into their adult years, and may survive the passing of their parents.
Putting a Price Tag On Your Health
Being healthy not only makes you feel good, it may also help you financially.
Critical Estate Documents
Sound estate management includes creating financial and healthcare documents. Here's an inside look.
Assess Life Insurance Needs
How to help determine life insurance needs to provide for your family after you pass away.
Traditional vs. Roth IRA
One or the other? Perhaps both traditional and Roth IRAs can play a part in your retirement plans.
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What Is My Current Cash Flow?
Assess whether you are running “in the black” or “in the red” each month.
Capital Gains Tax Estimator
Use this calculator to estimate your capital gains tax.
A Look at Systematic Withdrawals
This calculator may help you estimate how long funds may last given regular withdrawals.
Doubling Your Money
This calculator demonstrates the power of compound interest.
Long-Term-Care Needs
Determine your potential long-term care needs and how long your current assets might last.
Should I Pay Off Debt or Invest?
This calculator will help determine whether you should invest funds or pay down debt.
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Long-Term-Care Protection Strategies
The chances of needing long-term care, its cost, and strategies for covering that cost.
Managing Your Lifestyle
Using smart management to get more of what you want and free up assets to invest.
Tax Management Strategies
Learn more about taxes, tax-favored investing, and tax strategies.
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
Retirement Plan Distributions
There are a number of ways to withdraw money from a qualified retirement plan.
Protecting Those Who Matter Most
The importance of life insurance, how it works, and how much coverage you need.
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Jane Bond: Decoding Diversification
Agent Jane Bond is on the case, discovering how bonds diversify a portfolio.
Women and Retirement
Women must be ready to spend, on average, more years in retirement than men.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations? Here are three tips.
Saving for College 101
Here’s a crash course on saving for college.
Should You Ever Retire?
A growing number of Americans are pushing back the age at which they plan to retire. Or deciding not to retire at all.
Acres of Diamonds
In life it often happens that the answers to our most pressing questions are right in our own backyards.