Creative Financial Solutions
CREATIVE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS

an office of MetLife

Our mission is to help you make informed decisions to meet your protection and investment/income needs. Our team of Financial Services Representatives is a trusted source of information in our community.

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Retirement Toolbox

Tools to help you begin the process of ensuring the retirement lifestyle you want.

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Income Annuities Guide

Find out if income annuities can play a role in your retirement plan.

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Tax-Deferred Savings

Compare the potential future value of tax-deferred investments to that of taxable investments.

Lifetime Earnings

This calculator is designed to help you attach a dollar figure to your life’s work.

Taxable Equivalent Yield

Calculate the rate of return you would have to receive from a taxable investment to realize an equivalent tax-exempt yield.

Cost of Retirement

Use this calculator to estimate how much income and savings you may need in retirement.

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HOT TOPIC: Are Housing Troubles Standing in the Way of Growth?

In the wake of past recessions, the housing industry provided a meaningful economic boost. This time around, the pace of the recovery has been more sluggish than expected, and ongoing weakness in the housing sector may be to blame.

On the Committees

The closely watched "yield curve" has been fairly adept at signaling the onset of U.S. economic recessions. A yield curve inversion would seem to be a fairly straightforward method for ascertaining the direction of the economy, but more often than not it's not so simple.

Another Economic Stimulus

Temporary incentives could affect businesses of all sizes. Although Congress was unable to tackle the controversial issue of future income tax rates before the 2010 midterms, it quietly passed a little-noticed tax package, the Small Business Jobs Act of 2009 (H.R. 5297), that may benefit small businesses and even individual taxpayers.

HOT TOPIC: The Federal Estate Tax Is Back and May Be Here to Stay

The estate tax has been reinstated after being allowed to lapse in 2010. The new estate tax provisions are the most generous in decades — but they are temporary. A far more stringent estate tax is slated to take effect after 2012. Fortunately, a properly structured trust may help some families reduce their potential exposure to the estate tax.

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