Fellow NAPFA member, Jim Blankenship, has inspired several other fellow NAPFA members and bloggers to challenge their readers to save an extra 1% per year toward their retirement beginning this year by increasing their deferrals to their 401(k) accounts starting January 1. I’m passing along this challenge, along with links to several other articles that have been written on the subject, challenging you to increase your savings by another 1% in the coming year. Accept the Challenge!! Start increasing your savings for your own retirement today!
From Kathy Stearns: Do the 1% in 2013!
From Ken Weingarten: The 1% Challenge (Should you dare to accept)
From Richard Feight: The 1% Challenge!
From John Hunter: Save What You Can, Increase Savings as You Can Do So
From Emily Guy Birken: Increase your savings rate by 1%
From Jonathan White: Ways to increase your retirement contributions 1% in 2013
From Alan Moore: Financial Challenge – Should You Choose To Accept It
From Ann Minnium: Gifts That Matter
From Laura Scharr: In Crisis: Personal Savings- Here Are Six Steps to Improve Your Retirement Security
From yours truly: Add Your First 1% to Your 401(k)
From Steve Stewart: Seriously. What’s 1 percent gonna do?
From Theresa Chen Wan: Saving for Retirement: The 1% Challenge for 2013
From Mike Piper: Investing Blog Roundup: Saving 1% More
From Robert Wasilewski: Increase Savings Rate By 1%
From Sterling Raskie: A Nifty Little Trick to Increase Savings
From Roger Wohlner: Need Post-Election Financial Advice? Try the 1% Solution
From Michele Clark: Employer Retirement Accounts: 2013 Contribution Limits
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Tom Batterman, founder of Vigil Trust & Financial Advocacy and Financial Fiduciaries, LLC is in the business of representing the best financial interests of his clients. Having provided objective, fee-only financial management services for over two decades, he specializes in managing the investment and related financial affairs of individuals and mutual insurance companies who do not have the time, interest or expertise to manage such matters on their own. As an objective, unbiased professional who takes on a fiduciary responsibility to his clients, he guides clients to the financial decisions they would make themselves if they had years of training and experience and the time and expertise to fully research and understand all of their options.
Founded in 2010 as an outgrowth of Vigil Trust & Financial Advocacy, Financial Fiduciaries, LLC is a financial management solution for individuals and mutual insurance companies who recognize they do not have the time, interest or expertise to properly attend to their financial matters on their own. While there are many financial “advisors”, most of them have investment products to sell and the “advice” they provide is geared toward getting their clients to engage in a purchase. As one of the rare subset of advisors known as “fiduciary advisors”, Financial Fiduciaries does not sell any investment product so its guidance is not compromised by conflicts of interest which plague ordinary advisors.
Prior to his employment in the financial industry in financial advocacy and trust positions, he worked at a private law practice in the Wausau area in the areas of estate planning, tax, retirement planning, corporate organizations and real estate. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the UW-Madison Law School and has during his career held Series 7, 24 and 65 securities licenses.
A longtime resident of the Wausau, Wisconsin Area, Tom is active in the community. He enjoys golf, curling, skiing, fishing, traveling and spending time with his family.
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