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Knowledge is power—and the first step toward confident decision-making.
This curated collection of resources is here to help you get organized, stay informed, and feel empowered as you plan your financial future.

You’ll find downloadable PDFs, helpful checklists, investment tools, and trusted links to key financial organizations. Whether you’re preparing for retirement, managing investments, or simply looking to understand your options, these materials are here to support you—every step of the way.

Forms and Checklists

Financial planning encompasses a wide range of strategic personal and retirement goals such as legacy planning, family support, healthcare, insurance, and charitable giving.  Below are some tools to help you get organized.

Forms

  • Monthly Budget Sheet Download File
  • Financial Goals Worksheet
    Download PDF
  • Financial Fitness Quiz
    Download PDF
  • Net Worth Statement
    Download PDF
  • Personal Document Locator Form
    Download PDF
  • Savings Goals Work Sheet
    Download PDF
  • VA: Advance Directive Download PDF

Checklists

  • Caring for an Aging Parent Checklist
    Download PDF
  • Estate Planning Checklist
    Download PDF
  • Nearing Retirement Checklist
    Download PDF

Divorce

  • Checklist Prior to Divorce
    Download PDF
  • Checklist for the Recently Divorced
    Download PDF
  • Divorce & Debt
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Retirement 

  • Financial Inventory
    Download PDF
  • Legacy Box interview questions
    Download PDF
  • Record-Keeping Guide - What to keep and what to shred!
    Download PDF
  • S.M.A.R.T. Goals
    Download PDF
  • Taxation and Long-Term Care Insurance
    Download PDF

Key Numbers 2025

  • Key Numbers 2025 Download PDF

Financial Investments

A successful and rewarding retirement requires you to plan ahead in order to help ensure that you have sufficient retirement income to last you for your entire retirement. Determining your retirement income needs requires a discussion of the various stages of retirement planning, including pre-retirement, the transition into retirement, and retirement.


  1. Bonds, Interest Rates, and The Impact of Inflation
    Download PDF

  2. Developing A Distribution Strategy
    Download PDF

  3. ETF’s in Portfolios 
    Download PDF

  4. How to Invest Your Portfolio Using Passive and Active Management
    Download PDF

  5. Should You Pay Off Your Mortgage or Invest
    Download PDF

  6. The Split Annuity
    Download PDF

OLLI Class Resources

Class Resources

  • Beginners’ Guide to Financial Statement
  • Your Social Security Statement
  • Maintaining Your Financial Records
  • Organize Your Loved One’s Financial Records
  • Creating a Home Inventory
  • Managing Your Business Records
  • Loss of Spouse Organization Tips
  • Interview Questions
  • Single and Planning for Retirement?
  • Rebuilding your Buddy Network
  • Why you should volunteer in retirement
  • How to Retire Single Without Being Isolated
  • Rethinking Your Retirement Plans After the Loss of Your Spouse
  • Retirement Income Worksheet
  • Key Financial Terms

Retirement

As you approach retirement, your attention is shifted from the accumulation of assets to discussing ways in which those assets can be converted into a stream of income to last throughout your lifetime. Retirement planning is all about managing risk: inflation, market, and/or longevity risks. As distribution specialists, our focus is on efficient, lower-cost investments geared toward risk-sharing, security of principal, and plan reliability.


  1. 10 Ways Baby Boom Women (and Men) Can Save Themselves
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  2. Annuities A Fair And Balanced View
    Download PDF

  3. Developing A Distribution Strategy
    Download PDF

  4. Estimating Your Income Retirement Income Needs
    Download PDF

  5. Pension Max Concept
    Download PDF

  6. Reaching Retirement Now What?
    Download PDF

  7. The Split Annuity
    Download PDF

  8. Women and Retirement Planning
    Download PDF

Women in Finance

Women have unique financial needs. Statistics say that 85% or more will be on their own financially at some time. Some women never marry, some divorce and some will outlive their husbands.

Information and knowledge are powerful, but money and health provide choices in life. Therefore women, as well as men, need to learn about the financial planning process in order to make wise and informed decisions.


  1. 10 Ways Baby Boom Women (and Men) Can Save Themselves 
     Download PDF

  2. Checklist for the Recently Divorced
    Download PDF

  3. Checklist Prior to Divorce
    Download PDF

  4. Divorce & Debt
    Download PDF

  5. Divorce and Risk Management 
    Download PDF

  6. Emotional Uses of Money
    Download PDF

  7. Merging Finances After Marriage
    Download PDF

  8. Nine Steps to Raising Money Smart Kids
    Download PDF

  9. S.M.A.R.T. Goals
    Download PDF

  10. Teach Your Children Well
    Download PDF

  11. The Joys and Financial Challenges of Parenthood
    Download PDF

  12. Women and Money: Taking Control of Your Finances
    Download PDF

  13. Women and Retirement Planning
    Download PDF

Trusted Financial Education & Oversight Resources

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. FINRA’s mission is to protect America’s investors by making

finra.org

The SEC is responsible for implementing a series of regulatory initiatives required under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

sec.gov

The Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER) is dedicated to the education and advocacy that will improve the long-term financial quality of life for women.

wiserwomen.org

First, knowledge. Then, choices.

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