On this week’s This Week In Wealth, hosts Ilyce Glink and Alpha Wealth Group’s Tom Fortino discuss the latest inflation number (6.8%), a 39-year high, and how it is a tax upon your wealth and a hit upon your purchasing power. Inflation is impactful to our daily lives, but also to retirement savings. Glink and […]

WGN Radio’s Ilyce Glink and Tom Fortino from Alpha Wealth Group give you the latest financial business news and financial planning advice and more! We’re marching our way to the end of the year. There’s just two weeks left to get done some of those items that can help you lessen your tax burden or […]

WGN Radio’s Ilyce Glink and Tom Fortino from Alpha Wealth Group give you the latest financial business news and financial planning advice and more! Americans would no longer be able to use some popular strategies to move money into tax-free Roth individual retirement accounts under a roughly $2 trillion education, healthcare and climate package House […]

WGN Radio’s Ilyce Glink and Tom Fortino from Alpha Wealth Group give you the latest financial business news and financial planning advice and more! The Washington Post’s personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary, posted a column about what to think about if you want to retire early. Singletary writes in her column that there are five […]

WGN Radio’s Ilyce Glink and Tom Fortino from Alpha Wealth Group give you the latest financial business news and financial planning advice and more! Topics of conversation on this week’s show include: Year end planning, including tax strategies for 2022 and beyond. What to know about Roth conversions and Roth 401(k)s Changes in the tax […]

WGN Radio’s Ilyce Glink and Tom Fortino from Alpha Wealth Group give you the latest financial business news and financial planning advice and more! Helaine Olen, who is an economic columnist for the Washington Post, wrote a really interesting story this week about how American Airlines massive cancellations last week really highlights the frustrations roiling […]

WGN Radio’s Ilyce Glink and Tom Fortino from Alpha Wealth Group give you the latest financial business news and financial planning advice and more! Nationwide did a poll and found that nearly 70 percent of U.S. adults are terrified that there will be another pandemic in their lifetime. Healthcare might be the #1 thing that […]

WGN Radio’s Ilyce Glink and Tom Fortino from Alpha Wealth Group give you the latest financial business news and financial planning advice and more! We’ve talked about how the IRS requires you to take money from your tax deferred accounts starting at age 72.  The government wants their taxes.  There is a proposal being discussed […]

WGN Radio’s Ilyce Glink and Tom Fortino from Alpha Wealth Group give you the latest financial business news and financial planning advice and more! On this week’s show, Glink and Fortino discuss potential changes coming to the Roth IRA and planning for retirement despite market fluctuations. Jittery investors tend to check their financial standing a […]

WGN Radio’s Ilyce Glink and Tom Fortino from Alpha Wealth Group give you the latest financial business news and financial planning advice. Will downsizing in retirement actually save you money? And, what if you want to upsize rather than downsize?  %here are pros and cons and it’s not for everyone.  An article by Motley Fool […]