Understanding Today’s Financial Environment
Welcome to Jack B. Murad, CPA, MBT Financial Services, a Comprehensive Wealth Management & Tax Services Firm located in Woodland Hills, CA. We understand that individuals face unique challenges as they prepare for retirement. We can help take the mystery out of preparing for today and tomorrow. Whether your goal is preparing for retirement, college savings, or estate strategy, our personalized service focuses on your needs, wants, and financial goals and objectives.
As a Comprehensive Wealth Management & Tax Services Firm, we have almost three decades of experience in financial services. We can help you address your needs of today and for many years to come. We look forward to working with you through all stages of your life.
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Helpful Content
The Pre-Retirement Checklist
This checklist can give you a quick snapshot of how prepared you are.
Four Great, Unexpected Places to Raise a Family
Here are 4 great, and sometimes unexpected, places to raise a family.
A Primer on Dividends
A company's profits can be reinvested or paid out to the company’s shareholders as “dividends."
Inflation - Back to the Future
Even low inflation rates over an extended period of time can impact your finances in retirement.
Strategies For Managing Student Loan Debt
Five strategies for managing your student debt.
A Living Trust Primer
Living trusts are popular, but their appropriateness will depend upon your individual needs and objectives.
How Stocks Work
Understanding how a stock works is key to understanding your investments.
Volunteering in Retirement
For many, retirement includes contributing their time and talents to an organization in need.
Your Emergency Fund: How Much Is Enough?
Having an emergency fund may help alleviate the stress and worry associated with a financial crisis.
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How Compound Interest Works
Use this calculator to better see the potential impact of compound interest on an asset.
Bi-Weekly Payments
This calculator estimates the savings from paying a mortgage bi-weekly instead of monthly.
What Is the Dividend Yield?
This calculator helps determine your pre-tax and after-tax dividend yield on a particular stock.
Assess Your Life Insurance Needs
This calculator estimates how much life insurance you would need to meet your family's needs if you were to die prematurely.
Potential Income from an IRA
Estimate your monthly and annual income from various IRA types.
Contributing to an IRA?
Determine if you are eligible to contribute to a traditional or Roth IRA.
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Protecting Those Who Matter Most
The importance of life insurance, how it works, and how much coverage you need.
Investment Strategies for Retirement
Investment tools and strategies that can enable you to pursue your retirement goals.
Long-Term-Care Protection Strategies
The chances of needing long-term care, its cost, and strategies for covering that cost.
Your Cash Flow Statement
A presentation about managing money: using it, saving it, and even getting credit.
Tax Management Strategies
Learn more about taxes, tax-favored investing, and tax strategies.
An Inside Look at Retirement Living
A number of questions and concerns need to be addressed to help you better prepare for retirement living.
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Can Election Results Predict the Market?
How do the markets usually react to elections? Was the 2016 election any different?
Should You Ever Retire?
A growing number of Americans are pushing back the age at which they plan to retire. Or deciding not to retire at all.
Should I Invest in Gold?
Learning more about gold and its history may help you decide whether it has a place in your portfolio.
It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
All about how missing the best market days (or the worst!) might affect your portfolio.
What Can a Million Dollars Buy You?
$1 million in a diversified portfolio could help finance part of your retirement.
Surprise! You’ve Got Money!
Here’s a quick guide to checking to see if you have unclaimed money.