As we bid farewell to January, we hope your month was filled with positivity, productivity, and perhaps a few moments of well-deserved relaxation. As part of our commitment to providing proactive service, we want to take this opportunity to give you an update on the timeline for tax documents, deadlines for retirement contributions, and RMDs…

Seasons Greetings! As we quickly move into preparing for the Holiday season, we wanted to be sure to remind you of a few year-end deadlines for 2023, as well as prepare you for planning updates in 2024. Let’s Start with Some 2023 End of Year Items:  Requests and processing times increase as we approach December,…

At Tschetter Group, our mission is to give people optimism about life and money. As we’ve pressed into this mission, we’ve learned one of the most important components of inspiring optimism is to give people confidence in every financial decision they make. As the world evolves around us and we continue to get inundated with…

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” -Herbert Simon, Artificial Intelligence (AI) pioneer This quote was buried in an article I read last month related to the launch of ChatGPT, an AI-driven chatbot that has received its fair share of media attention.  For those of you curious about what it means for the…

Greetings and Happy New Year! With more than 100 individual provisions aimed at modernizing the U.S. retirement planning system, SECURE 2.0 has been approved by congress and we at Tschetter Group have highlighted several key changes that may be of interest below: Changes to Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) One major change within the legislation is the extension…

Season’s Greetings!   It’s hard to believe that we are heading into the last couple of months of the year. We want to make you aware of a few year-end deadlines for 2022 so that we can help you accomplish any remaining financial goals in a timely manner. Looking ahead to 2023, we also highlighted some…

Greetings and Happy Spring! For many of us, the renewal of spring signals that it’s time to get into spring cleaning mode – sweeping the dust out, rotating our wardrobes, decluttering our rooms. The goal is to tidy and freshen up your living space as the new season rolls in. I know for me, taking…

Tschetter Group is proud to announce that our Associate Financial Planner, Pascale Dumesnil has passed the CFP® examination and will soon be applying for her CFP® certificate. The CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certification is largely considered the highest standard in financial planning. It is a rigorous process that requires each advisor candidate to satisfy educational and…

For those of you that have accumulated employer stock within your employer-sponsored retirement plan, you have a few different options when you’re eligible to take a distribution from your plan. Often times when employees leave a company, the best course of action is to roll your company retirement plan into an IRA to continue to…

For those who have a private long term care policy in place and want to opt-out of the WA Cares Act, below are instructions on how to do so. The payroll tax officially starts on January 1st 2022 so it is critical that you opt-out before year end. Please keep in mind that once you…