Financial Education Library for Dentists

Our financial education library is filled with dental-specific insights on investing, retirement planning, personal finance, tax management, insurance, debt management, profitability, and other financial topics. Explore our collection of articles, courses, podcasts, videos, and eGuides.

Why Don’t People Save For Retirement?

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

More than half (54%) of all families in the United States have no retirement savings at all. The median retirement...

Should You Get Whole Life Insurance?

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

Insurance isn’t exactly the most exhilarating and gripping financial topic, so this is my attempt to explain the basics of...

How Much Does it Cost to Raise a Child?

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

According to a recent study by LendingTree, the cost of raising a small child has jumped 35% over the past...

What’s Happening With The Housing Market?

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

  If you took a snapshot of where the U.S. economy is right now, there are a lot of data...

An Argument For Shared Bank Accounts

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

Here’s an opinion that may be controversial: I think every married couple should have combined finances and shared bank accounts....

Is the Stock Market More Risky Today than in the Past?

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

I recently received the following email: “My experience with the stock market as an adult has been: I graduated college...

How To Make Money In A Bear Market

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

As I’m writing this, on the first day of May, the S&P 500 is down about 8.5% from its high...

What’s an HSA?

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

A Health Savings Account, or HSA, is an investment account that helps you save for medical expenses. According to a...

Knowing vs. Doing

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

I can’t stop thinking about the Masters. It’s the best golf tournament in the world, and we had a great...

Navigating Stock Market Volatility

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

TL;DR – Listen to the article post: What a wild past week and a half in the stock market. On...

Riding Out the Storm

By Jordan Haines, CFP® , Director of Financial Education

What Market Volatility Teaches Us About Long-Term Investing The headlines have been relentless lately. With the announcement of sweeping new...

Do You Hate Paying Taxes?

By Jake Elm, CFP® , Financial Advisor

TL;DR – Listen to the article post: As I write this, the U.S. stock market is taking a small tumble,...