Maximizing Your Business Potential

Whether starting a new business, expanding an existing one, or selling a business, an entrepreneur needs a variety of tools and resources to make the entrepreneurship efficient, manageable, and profitable. Erickson Advisors has a few ideas to help you maximize your business potential while keeping that work/life balance clearly in focus.

How to Handle an Unexpected Financial Windfall

A windfall is different from retirement money you’ve been saving over the years because it comes all at once. And because a windfall usually accompanies some sort of shift in your life, it can have some complex emotions attached to it.

Tax Planning to Increase Savings

Tax Planning for Individuals They say nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. As fiduciaries, we can name one more certainty in life: no one wants to pay […]

Making Sense of Inflation

I can hardly get through any news report or recent article which does not mention “inflation” in some context. If you are over the age of 60, or have studied the inflation of the 1970’s, you may immediately call up an image of mortgages and money market funds at 17% or more. What we have this time around is not that!

Why Financial Planning

Financial planning is actually a deeply personal process and it varies greatly from person to person and family to family.
At Erickson Advisors, we not only ask a lot of questions about what matters to you, we also revisit your answers to these questions regularly.

Quarterly Comments – Inflation?

I’ve heard the word “Inflation” more in the last few months than in the past few years. Many younger people, some on my staff, have never heard the level of […]

Testing the Waters of Financial Planning

As fiduciaries, we’ve discovered over the years that the idea of financial planning can be intimidating for some. In people who fear they haven’t saved enough or should have started […]

A Roth IRA Can Be a Great Gift

What is a Roth IRA? Just to review – what is a Roth IRA? A Roth IRA is funded with “after tax” dollars, grows free of all income and capital […]