Welcome to Advanced Financial Concepts, a full-service financial services organization focusing on retirement planning , income distribution and estate conservation strategies.
Advanced Financial Concepts can:
- Help you clarify and define your goals
- Recommend strategies which fit your individual needs
- Explain how changing financial conditions affect you
- Help make sure your financial goals and objectives stay on track
- Help make investment planning easier
- Coordinate objectives with your CPA and Attorney
Feel free to browse our site. You'll find a variety of articles, calculators, and research reports we hope will raise questions and peak your interest.
If you have any questions or want to schedule a complimentary meeting to discuss your specific questions, you can e-mail me at rich.casolari@ceterawealth.com or reach my on my cell (312) 504-0757. I look forward to speaking with you.
Newsletters
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Goodbye Passwords, Hello Passkeys
As major tech companies, apps, and websites make passkeys their default security option, it’s likely you’ll be prompted to set them up to help secure your accounts.
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Foreign Stocks Outperformed in 2025
Although U.S. stocks have provided a higher return over the past 20 years, foreign stocks outperformed in seven of those years, including 2025.
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Cash Balance Plans Help Some Business Owners Supersize Retirement Savings
These plans have generous contribution limits that increase with age, which may allow high-income business owners to catch up on retirement savings and significantly reduce their taxable incomes.
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Small Business: Coping with the End of De Minimis Imports
Small businesses must now pay duties on low-value goods they could previously source inexpensively from China and elsewhere.
Calculators
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Home Affordability
Estimate of the maximum amount of financing you can expect to get when you begin house hunting.
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Required Minimum Distributions
Estimate the annual required distribution from your traditional IRA or former employer's retirement plan after you turn age 73.
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Long-Term Care Self Insurance
Will you be able to afford nursing home care?
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IRA Eligibility
Use this calculator to determine whether you qualify for the different types of IRAs.