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Welcome, we’re Virginia Retirement Specialists, Inc. 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 preparing for retirement, college savings, or estate strategy, our personalized service focuses on your needs, wants, and financial goals and objectives.
Our professionals have years of experience in financial services. We can help you address your needs of today and for many years to come. We look forward to working with you through all stages of your life. We want to earn the right, over time, to be considered by you as your retirement planning professionals.
We are in no way affiliated with the Virginia Retirement System, but we do specialize in the benefits available to you under the VRS and provide programs which are designed, not to replace the benefits that you currently qualify for, but are designed to supplement and enhance those benefits.
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Helpful Content
Potential Income from an IRA
Estimate your monthly and annual income from various IRA types.
Contributing to an IRA?
Determine if you are eligible to contribute to a traditional or Roth IRA.
Understanding Homeowner’s Insurance
Purchasing homeowners insurance is critical for protecting your home.
Investing with Your Heart
For some, the social impact of investing is just as important as the return, perhaps more important.
Budgeting After a Divorce
Divorce is the second most stressful time in a person's life. Here's some tips to get through it.
Filing Final Tax Returns for the Deceased
The federal government requires deceased individuals to file a final income tax return.
Password Protection Strategies
Simple steps may help you foil hackers and protect your privacy.
Why Medicare Should Be Part of Your Retirement Strategy
How Medicare can address health care needs in your retirement strategy.
How Insurance Deductibles Work
Knowing how insurance deductibles work can help you save money and give you peace of mind.
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What Is My Current Cash Flow?
Assess whether you are running “in the black” or “in the red” each month.
Bi-Weekly Payments
This calculator estimates the savings from paying a mortgage bi-weekly instead of monthly.
Disability Income
This calculator estimates your chances of becoming disabled and your potential need for disability insurance.
Social Security Taxes
Estimate how much of your Social Security benefit may be considered taxable.
Long-Term-Care Needs
Determine your potential long-term care needs and how long your current assets might last.
Inflation & Retirement
Estimate how much income may be needed at retirement to maintain your standard of living.
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Long-Term-Care Protection Strategies
The chances of needing long-term care, its cost, and strategies for covering that cost.
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
Investment Strategies for Retirement
Investment tools and strategies that can enable you to pursue your retirement goals.
5 Smart Investing Principles
Principles that can help create a portfolio designed to pursue investment goals.
5 Smart Investing Strategies
There are some smart strategies that may help you pursue your investment objectives
Managing Your Lifestyle
Using smart management to get more of what you want and free up assets to invest.
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Should I Invest in Gold?
Learning more about gold and its history may help you decide whether it has a place in your portfolio.
Retiring the 4% Rule
A portfolio created with your long-term objectives in mind is crucial as you pursue your dream retirement.
Inflation and Your Portfolio
Even low inflation rates can pose a threat to investment returns.
The Power of Tax-Deferred Growth
Why are 401(k) plans, annuities, and IRAs so popular?
Bursting the Bubble
Tulips were the first, but they won’t be the last. What forms a “bubble” and what causes them to burst?
RE: Retirement
How does your ideal retirement differ from reality, and what can we do to better align the two?