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I've found in recent client meetings - there's widespread confusion about how High Deductible Health Plans and Health Savings Accounts work. Today I want to share how to best to use the HSA’s benefits for maximum long term success. Many high earning professionals are missing out on valuable tax benefits by not steering their HSA balances toward long-term investments!!

I work with a lot of young professionals and there is a growing number of people in their 20s and 30s who want to retire early. You may have even heard the acronym FIRE before, Financial Independence Retire Early. Fortunately, it’s easier to work towards early retirement when you set out to do so at 20 vs 45 but there are also a lot of important considerations, and it takes some serious planning to pull this off successfully. ✔️

We are living through an extravagant bull market… U.S. Stocks have returned over 600% since March of 2009. And over the last few years especially, it seems like every time you look at your accounts, you’ve made more money! 📈 Despite Covid, it’s been a fun 2 years to pull up your statements! And so it’s natural to get comfortable & to start thinking that the market only trends one way! But, honestly, this type of thinking is dangerous…

Companies, organizations, and investment funds make a difference in the world by fusing natural elements with man-made discoveries. Thanks to technology impact investments have gained substantial recognition because of its measurable investment growth. Today, impact investors are interested in business development and ecological advancements for improving the quality of life.

Financial procrastination is when you have financial obligations and moves to make, but you put those decisions aside on a continuous basis. For instance – you know you need to balance your checkbook, but you continue waiting until things are going wrong. Or, you may have student loans and need to apply for a deferment but you let the time-lapse and end up in the credit bureau.

Often I get asked, "how do you get paid?" Most financial professionals talk about how important it is to have a financial plan, but then turn around and offer a "free plan" with an end game already in mind. At Drucker Wealth we are so committed to our financial planning process and know how much value our clients will derive from every step of our process and that is exactly why charge for it!

I explain, in the excerpt below, a bit about my own financial plan and how I'm thinking about my own investments, time horizon, and future. Well, I'm writing this on March 24th, as the stock market has gotten relentlessly pounded for two weeks straight. It's brutal. Have I changed my tune from what you're about to read? Not even a little. Over the past two weeks, I've added MORE money into all of my investment accounts because I see this as an opportunity...great companies are on sale! Compared to 3 months ago- because the market is down so much- I'm able to buy more shares with the exact same dollar amount! So, (as long as I have the cash flow and don't need the money in the near term) Sign me up! Here's why time is on my side...

Writing about whether the next stock market correction would come in 6 weeks or 6 months (below)...I had no idea how real my words would soon become. It's actually chilling to think back to when I wrote about what we're currently living through as merely a distant hypothetical. And yet...nothing has changed. So yes, we're in a devastating stretch...it could go on for the next month or for the next 22 months...I have no idea. But here is what I know...This TOO SHALL PASS. As every single market crisis has before. The words below are just as true as when I wrote them 6 weeks ago...but they are about 1000 times more important to believe in your heart today.