Investments

Do you have kids with plans for a college degree? If so, you better brace yourself for a financial reality. Higher education is not only a place of higher learning, it’s a place of higher costs. And those costs seem to keep rising well above the rate of inflation each year. Just how much does a college education cost these days?

They call them the Golden Years for a reason. You’ve worked hard your whole life, now it’s time to live life by the gold standard. It’s time to kick back and enjoy the fruits of your labor. But to make sure this is how the script plays out, you’ve got to plan ahead. You’ve got to take the necessary steps now to allow for a comfortable lifestyle later.

Planning. Whether it’s planning your day or planning your future, having a plan is important to making smart decisions. Planning especially comes into play when thinking about your finances. What is financial planning and what does it include?

Q: What is investing?

Since 1986, the Vantage Investment Services Group* (ISG) has offered access to securities transactions and brokerage services to credit union members.

Vantage Credit Union offers a variety of competitive certificates of deposit (CDs) and individual retirement accounts (IRAs) to meet your individual investment needs.