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FINANCIALLY FOCUSED


June 2020 Newsletter


708.479.8771
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"A Guide to Getting Your House In Order"

Come in for a complimentary consultation and receive an autographed copy of our book!

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Local authors and financial professionals Ron and Karen Dowling reveal strategies to getting your legacy, retirement and income planning in order with their new book!

Order yours today on Amazon!¹

  
 

 

Steps to Get Your Financial Life in Order

We all want to feel like our lives are in order, and that is especially apparent when things like the coronavirus show us how little we can control.

One thing you can control, however, is improving your financial situation. That was the subject of a recent article on thebalance.com.² The following highlights the steps noted in the article to help obtain financial order.

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In 2013, the Oxford Dictionaries announced their word of the year to be “selfie”, which they define as “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.” The technique is far from being a strictly modern phenomenon though.

Indeed, the photographic self-portrait is surprisingly common in the very early days of photography exploration and invention, when it was often more convenient for the experimenting photographer to act as model as well. In fact, the picture considered by many to be the first photographic portrait ever taken was a "selfie". The image in question was taken in 1839 by an amateur chemist and photography enthusiast from Philadelphia named Robert Cornelius.

Setting up his camera at the back of the family store in Philadelphia, Cornelius took the image by removing the lens cap and then running into frame where he sat for a minute before covering up the lens again. On the back of the image he wrote "The first light Picture ever taken. 1839."
 

 

Is Now a Time to Consider a Roth Conversion?

To help people develop strategies for income in retirement, there are a few different kinds of tax-advantaged retirement accounts.

One type that you may have heard about is a Roth. For the purposes of this article, we’ll be talking about the Roth Individual Retirement Account (IRA).

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1 https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Getting-Your-House-Order/dp/1977971857/ref=sr_1_cc_4?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1508860998&sr=1

2 https://www.thebalance.com/plan-to-turn-around-your-finances-4119172
3 https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/robert-cornelius-self-portrait-the-first-ever-selfie-1839

 
Advisory services are offered by Chancellor Financial Services, Inc a Registered Investment Advisor in the State of IL. Insurance services offered through Dowling Consulting Services, Inc. dba, Dowling Legacy & Retirement, an affiliated company. Neither Chancellor Financial Services, Inc., nor Dowling Legacy & Retirement are affiliated with or endorsed by the Social Security Administration or any government agency.
 
 
 


Karen Prescia Dowling
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19614 S. La Grange Rd. Mokena, IL 60448
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