Understanding Today’s Financial Environment
Welcome, I’m Alan Nishimoto, a financial professional in Honolulu, Hawaii. 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 saving for retirement, college savings, or estate strategy, our personalized service focuses on your needs, wants, and financial goals and objectives.
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How Compound Interest Works
Use this calculator to better see the potential impact of compound interest on an asset.
Should I Invest in Gold?
Learning more about gold and its history may help you decide whether it has a place in your portfolio.
What's My 2023 Tax Bracket?
Check out this handy reference of updated ranges from the IRS in case your designated bracket has changed.
6 Steps to Rewire the Mind-Money Connection
People develop their relationship with money from a young age. Yet it is never too late to change a bad financial habit.
The Investment Risk No One’s Ever Heard Of
You face a risk for which the market does not compensate you, that can not be easily reduced through diversification.
Insurance Planning Following Divorce
If you are recently divorced, take steps to ensure that you are properly protected.
Not Your Parents’ Finances
From paychecks to housing costs, millennials today are confronting very different financial challenges, opportunities and...
Is a SEP-IRA Right for Your Business?
For some, the idea of establishing a retirement strategy evokes worries about complicated reporting and administration.
The (Other) Talk: Preparing Your Parents for Retirement
For much of our lives, our parents are the ones who have to bring up uncomfortable topics. (Just think back — and squirm — to their birds and bees talk. Awkward, right?) But once we become adults, sometimes it’s our turn to start sensitive conversations.
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Saving for Retirement
This calculator can help you estimate how much you may need to save for retirement.
Historical Inflation
This calculator shows how inflation over the years has impacted purchasing power.
Can I Refinance My Mortgage?
This calculator can help determine whether it makes sense to refinance your mortgage.
Self-Employed Retirement Plans
Estimate the maximum contribution amount for a Self-Employed 401(k), SIMPLE IRA, or SEP.
Tax Freedom Day
Assess how many days you'll work to pay your federal tax liability.
Should I Pay Off Debt or Invest?
This calculator will help determine whether you should invest funds or pay down debt.
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Managing Your Lifestyle
Using smart management to get more of what you want and free up assets to invest.
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
Long-Term-Care Protection Strategies
The chances of needing long-term care, its cost, and strategies for covering that cost.
An Inside Look at Retirement Living
A number of questions and concerns need to be addressed to help you better prepare for retirement living.
Protecting Those Who Matter Most
The importance of life insurance, how it works, and how much coverage you need.
5 Smart Investing Strategies
There are some smart strategies that may help you pursue your investment objectives
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Perception vs. Reality
There’s an alarming difference between perception and reality for current and future retirees.
Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
Retirement and Quality of Life
Asking the right questions about how you can save money for retirement without sacrificing your quality of life.
Bridging the Confidence Gap
In the world of finance, the effects of the "confidence gap" can be especially apparent.
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Lifestyle inflation can be the enemy of wealth building. What could happen if you invested instead of buying more stuff?
The Junk Drawer Approach to Investing
It's easy to let investments accumulate like old receipts in a junk drawer.