Navigating Today’s Financial Environment
Welcome to Baker Financial Services, a full service financial planning firm in Arlington, Texas. For over 30 years, we have offered comprehensive financial guidance to our clients. While there are unique challenges when building wealth and planning for the future, we work hard to help each client navigate their way toward financial independence. Whether you are preparing for retirement, beginning an investment program or need a financial blueprint, our personalized service is designed to help you reach your goals and objectives.
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Consider These 3 Things Before Driving Off the Lot
There are a few things to consider when buying or leasing your next vehicle.
How to Read Your Credit Report
Solve a mystery while learning how important your credit report is with this story-driven interactive.
9 Facts About Social Security
There are things about Social Security that might surprise you.
Social Security: Maximizing Benefits
There are other ways to maximize Social Security benefits, in addition to waiting to claim them.
Countering Counterfeit Currency
Combating counterfeiting remains core to preserving the integrity of the nation’s money.
Choosing a Retirement Plan that Fits Your Business
To choose a plan, it’s important to ask yourself four key questions.
Revising Estate Strategy Assumptions
Estate tax exemptions rules appear to be stabilizing, prompting many to reconsider conventional estate strategies.
How Big is Money?
Learn a little about worldwide currency in this fun infographic
How Income Taxes Work
A quick look at how federal income taxes work.
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My Retirement Savings
Estimate how long your retirement savings may last using various monthly cash flow rates.
What Is My Current Net Worth?
Use this calculator to estimate your net worth by adding up your assets and subtracting your liabilities.
What's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
Comparing Mortgage Terms
Estimate the total cost in today's dollars of various mortgage alternatives.
Federal Income Tax
Use this calculator to estimate your income tax liability along with average and marginal tax rates.
What Is My Current Cash Flow?
Assess whether you are running “in the black” or “in the red” each month.
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5 Smart Investing Principles
Principles that can help create a portfolio designed to pursue investment goals.
Your Cash Flow Statement
A presentation about managing money: using it, saving it, and even getting credit.
Long-Term-Care Protection Strategies
The chances of needing long-term care, its cost, and strategies for covering that cost.
Investment Strategies for Retirement
Investment tools and strategies that can enable you to pursue your retirement goals.
An Inside Look at Retirement Living
A number of questions and concerns need to be addressed to help you better prepare for retirement living.
5 Smart Investing Strategies
There are some smart strategies that may help you pursue your investment objectives
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Don't Buy The Hype
There are a lot of misconceptions about Social Security. Here’s the truth about three of them.
The Cycle of Investing
Understanding the cycle of investing may help you avoid easy pitfalls.
Consider These 3 Things Before Driving Off the Lot
There are a few things to consider when buying or leasing your next vehicle.
Global and International Funds
Investors seeking world investments can choose between global and international funds. What's the difference?
Should You Invest in Exchange Traded Funds?
There are hundreds of ETFs available. Should you invest in them?
Acres of Diamonds
In life it often happens that the answers to our most pressing questions are right in our own backyards.