by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Apr 4, 2021 | Financial Planning, News
It is with great trepidation that I sit down to write this month’s column; I can already hear the angry phone calls and see the slew of emails in my inbox. I care deeply about my clients, though, and about retirement savers everywhere, so I feel I need to brave an...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Mar 25, 2021 | News
We all dream about retirement: extravagant travel, spoiling grandkids, sipping wine while watching beautiful sunsets off the deck. For many, the cold, hard truth will be a little different, though. In 2020, the median retirement income for a U.S. couple with one...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Mar 7, 2021 | News
I get clients come in every week telling me, “I have an investment, but I don’t really know what it is. My advisor told me that it was a guarantee that I can’t outlive my money or something like a pension.” What they’re describing is an annuity, which is an insurance...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Jan 9, 2021 | News
Happy March! In January, I started a “down and dirty” educational series on the basics of investing. In January we examined stocks and spent some time on bonds in the February issue. This month we’re ready to fit the pieces into place and talk about mutual funds which...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Jan 9, 2021 | News
If you happened to pick up a January 2020 edition of Healthy Cells, you’ll remember that I started a series on the basics of finance by addressing all you ever wanted to know about stocks. Again, if you have a business degree, this article is not for you. But if you...
by Heid Huiskamp Collins | Jun 5, 2020 | Community Involvement, Education Planning, Financial Planning, For Women, Legacy Planning, News, Uncategorized
I can’t NOT speak, but I hesitate to find the right words as anything I say threatens to highlight my white privilege. I feel such deep pain for my black and brown sisters and brothers, our community, and our country, and I feel some very real shame at how relatively...
