Core and Explore

Coach Pete and his team at Capital Financial offer a comprehensive approach to financial planning, focusing on strategies to help you generate adequate retirement income and make that retirement income last throughout your lifetime. One of the strategies they recommend is having Core Money. Core Money is protected and safe from risk. To earn enough profit to fund your life …

How an Advance and Protect Strategy is Vital to Your Retirement

Playing the market can be risky, especially when it’s the method for funding your retirement plan. In fact, the stock market averages negative returns around one out of every four years. When time is on your side, those odds aren’t bad, but as years go by, there is less opportunity to recover from a rough financial year. Take the wrong …

6 Financial Blind Spots to be on the lookout for

Managing your finances can seem overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. Fiduciary planners like Peter J. D’Arruda help clients conquer financial hurdles and prepare for better fiscal futures every day. D’Arruda, best known as “Coach Pete,” is a Master Registered Financial Consultant and president of Capital Financial USA, a financial advisory and consulting firm headquartered in Apex. He said …

Retirement Planning During a Pandemic

The crisis stemming from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has thrown our society into an unprecedented state of fear and uncertainty. In a relatively short span of time, this invisible enemy has turned our entire world upside-down, disrupting every aspect of life as we know it. School is different. Work is different. Business is different. It may feel like the financial world …

5 Keys to a Successful Retirement

It’s estimated there are more than 49 million retirees living in the United States today. Fiduciary planner Peter J. D’Arruda said retirement isn’t something that happens, it’s something you plan for. “Retirement is essentially at least 20, if not 40 years of unemployment,” said D’Arruda, who is best known as Coach Pete. D’Arruda is a Master Registered Financial Consultant who …

How ‘color-coding’ your money can help you prepare for retirement

Planning your financial future can be intimidating, which may be why almost half of all Americans lack a concrete retirement plan. However, developing a strong retirement strategy now will pay dividends in the future, and, luckily, the process is not as difficult as it might seem. In reality, creating your retirement fund can be as simple as color-coding your finances …

Why you need to routinely update your life insurance policy

When running the gamut of insurance coverage, life insurance is often thought of as a one-time decision. While other types of insurance policies may change yearly, once you’ve picked a suitable life insurance policy, you may feel as if you’re set for decades. But in reality, it’s not quite as simple as that. In fact, life insurance policies can be …

What is a Fiduciary?

You may have been watching television or driving down the road and heard a commercial with the words “a true fiduciary”, but do you know what that really means?  Most people don’t understand the meaning of “fiduciary” and how it can affect you and your financial future.  A fiduciary is a person or organization that acts on behalf of another …