"Charting Financial Success Around Family Values"

Catanzarite Financial Services, Inc. is a family-owned business that understands how to integrate your values into a plan for you, your family and your business. We work with select individuals, families and businesses that are serious about the design and implementation of a comprehensive financial plan. Our planning process begins with understanding your values which are the foundation upon which you allocate your time and financial resources. After creating a comprehensive plan we help clients implement the plan and provide asset management services, risk management strategies and estate planning that is consistent with the client’s values.
Calculators

Cash Flow Analysis

This Cash Flow Analysis form will help you weigh your income vs. your expenses.

Roth IRA Conversion

This calculator can help you determine whether you should consider converting to a Roth IRA.

Personal Inflation Rate

Is your personal inflation rate higher or lower than the CPI?

Required Minimum Distributions

Estimate the annual required distribution from your traditional IRA or former employer's retirement plan after you turn age 70.

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Growth, Value, or Both

The average annual return for large-cap value stocks was about 2.1% higher than for large-cap growth stocks, yet growth stocks outperformed value stocks in 13 out of 30 years. This article examines the difference between the two approaches and describes why holding both may help investors take advantage of a variety of market conditions.

Tips for Surviving the Estate Tax

The federal estate tax was reinstated retroactively to January 1, 2010, by the 2010 Tax Relief Act. However, the favorable provisions are scheduled to expire at the end of 2012, when estates exceeding $1 million could be subject to the federal levy.

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.

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.

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