Cornerstone Financial Strategies, LLC

07/17/2026

Trump Accounts: What Parents and Grandparents Should Know

Trump Accounts have been in headlines for months. Few of those headlines explain them the same way.Depending on the article, they sound like a college fund, a retirement account, or something brand new altogether.For parents and grandparents trying to figure out whether any of it matters for their f...

07/02/2026

How Retirement Has Changed Over the Last 75 Years (And What It Means for Your Plan)

Retirement used to mean a short, quiet final chapter. For many people today, it's something else entirely.For much of the last century, retirement followed a fairly predictable pattern: work for decades, retire around age 65, and slow down. Today, that picture looks very different.Retirement has evo...

06/05/2026

Business Succession Planning: Built to Last vs. Built to Transfer

Many business owners spend decades building something that works. The team. The reputation. The customers who keep coming back.Then comes a quieter assumption: that when it's time to step away, the rest will somehow sort itself out.Research suggests it usually doesn't.The Businesses That Quietly Run...

06/01/2026

Checking Your Portfolio Isn't the Same as Reviewing It

Nearly half of investors check their portfolio at least once a day.1Many of them aren't reviewing anything.They're refreshing a number. Watching it move. Sometimes celebrating. Sometimes panicking. But not actually evaluating whether the portfolio is built for the life they're heading into.That's a....

05/06/2026

The Estate Plan That Looks Complete on Paper

04/09/2026

What $100 Invested in 1928 Would Be Worth Today

Many people think the biggest risk with money is losing it. A bad investment. A market crash. A bet that doesn't pay off.But what if the most expensive financial decision isn't a bad choice — it's no choice at all?That's what nearly a century of market data suggests. And the numbers are hard to ar...