Each stage of life brings new considerations, from welcoming a child to coping with a loved one’s death. Planning ahead can help you stay financially secure and reduce stress. While the path forward may change, having a clear direction can help you stay focused on what’s next. These considerations can help you get started, wherever life leads.
Heading to College
- Make a plan to become financially independent
- Learn how to budget
- Create an emergency fund
- Develop a road map for retirement
- Consider life insurance protection: term, whole, and universal
Entering the Workforce
- Examine employee benefits
- Adjust your budget
- Increase your emergency fund
- Fine-tune your road map for retirement: individual retirement account (IRA)
- Review disability income insurance Protection
- Consider life insurance protection: term, whole, and universal
Getting Married
- Begin saving for your first home
- Set up a budget together
- Build an emergency fund together
- Add your spouse to your road map for retirement
- Review your investment options: mutual funds
- Review accidental death insurance protection
- Consider life insurance protection: term, whole, and universal
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Buying Your First Home
- Adjust your budget
- Increase your emergency fund
- Reevaluate your road map for retirement
- Review your investment options: mutual funds
- Review critical illness insurance protection
- Consider life insurance protection: term, whole, and universal
Starting a Family
- Review parental leave options
- Save for your baby’s future: 529 college savings plan
- Adjust your budget
- Increase your emergency fund
- Reevaluate your road map for retirement
- Review your investment options: mutual funds
- Consider long-term care insurance protection
- Consider life insurance protection: term, whole, and universal
Changing Careers
- Review rollover strategies for company plans
- Reevaluate your road map for retirement: make catch-up contributions
- Review disability income insurance protection
- Evaluate Medicare supplement insurance protection
- Consider life insurance protection: term, whole, and universal
Entering Retirement
- Determine your Social Security benefits
- Adjust your budget
- Fine-tune your road map for retirement
- Review your annuity options: fixed, variable, immediate
- Consider long-term care insurance protection
- Evaluate Medicare supplement insurance protection
- Consider life insurance protection: term, whole, and universal
Leaving a Legacy
- Establish a plan for wealth transfer
- Choose a beneficiary for select annuity payouts
- Choose a beneficiary for your life insurance death benefit
- Choose a beneficiary for your accidental death insurance benefit
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