Financial plans are holistic, they aren’t simply retirement analyses. After all, as we’ve discussed many times on this blog and on our podcast, Today y Mañana, everything from your estate planning to your risk management can be a part of it. There are plenty of reasons to talk to your financial advisor about more than just your financial plan, here we’ve highlighted the 3 most important ones.

We always advise clients that the financial plans we sit down and create with them are documents that guide and help us understand the strengths and weaknesses of your financial situation. Analyzing them and keeping them going throughout retirement is essential. One of the key areas where most people have not adequately prepared for is caregiving.

Goals. When it comes to the end of the year, we start with all sorts of goal-based ideas for what we want to do. New Years Resolutions abound and usually they are based in some self-improvement desire. We want to improve our health, we want to improve our social life, we want to improve our organization to better our lives. Some important things that we often forget to organize, or tend to put off, are our financial goals. Having a step-by-step process can make it easier to get those financial goals lined up and give us a good sense of what needs to get done to realize those goals.

Not all sectors are made equally. That’s one of the first aspects of investing in the real world that’s different from the investing world. Conceptually, for instance, you can understand investing as different sets of strategies, for instance, high yield, growth, dividend etc. Realistically, a company can be a manufacturing company at any stage, high yield, growth, and given time, can even become a dividend aristocrat.