Over the past few years, the Stock Market fell by over 50% before beginning to recover. This crash caused millions of people to experience huge declines in their investment and retirement portfolios. This has caused many to delay retirement or even come out of retirement. Because of this, it is evident that financial planning is more important today than ever before. Financial planning with an experienced financial planner comes with many benefits that could strengthen and solidify your financial future.Â

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The first benefit of financial planning is that it will help prepare you for retirement. Regardless of your age, financial planning could help put you on a savings track for retirement. A financial planner will assess your current level of savings and determine the amount of money you will need for retirement. Based on that assessment, the financial planner will determine how much money you need to contribute into retirement accounts going forwards and what rate of return you will need on your investments. Based on the required return, the financial planner will determine your best investment allocation and will diversify your portfolio between funds that are best suited to meet your needs.

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Through financial planning, you could also save considerably on the amount of taxes you or your heirs will need to pay. A financial planner is well versed in all tax free and tax deferred accounts and investments that you could make. The planner could help you re-organize your investment portfolio so a portion of your assets go into tax sheltered accounts, which are not taxable upon withdrawal. This could save you or your heirs thousands of dollars in taxes.Â

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Financial planning could also be used to save for your child's education. Similar to planning for thrivetriospace retirement, a financial planner will, through the use of a 529 account, figure out your eventual needs for educational expenses as well as how much you can afford to save each month. From this, the financial planner will be able to determine the best investment strategy that will maximize the accounts return. Â