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Financial Wellness
Give Yourself The Gift Of Savings

We hope you received everything you hoped for during the holiday season. If not, it’s time to give yourself a gift that keeps giving: The gift of saving money. On the surface, it may not sound as exciting as what was on your holiday wish list, but it’s a habit that can help you.

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Credit Union News
Best 5-Year CD Rates In California!

The economy is fickle. There are peaks and declines. The stock market climbs one quarter and crashes the next. And when it comes to interest rates, over the past five years, we bet you thought they couldn’t get any lower and wondered if they’d ever go down.

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Financial Wellness
The 2×2 System: A Yearly Financial Wellness Calendar. November.

or most people working for a company, a significant part of the job is sifting through a whole lot of emails to determine which contain vital information. That means a bunch of potentially useful stuff—like updates on employee benefits—gets weeded out simply because there’s not enough time to engage with everything. But now, during this month when open enrollment typically happens, give yourself time to review the offerings for each of these potentially valuable employee benefits:

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Financial Wellness
Open Yourself To An HSA And An IRA During Open Enrollment

It’s that time of year again. No, not football season. Or the start of the holiday shopping season. It’s open enrollment season. As you review your current healthcare selections and research your options, there are two financial options we hope you’ll keep top of mind. Health savings accounts and Individual retirement accounts. Here are a few things to consider.

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