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Should You Hold Cash Investments After the Fed Cuts Interest Rates?

Should You Hold Cash Investments After the Fed Cuts Interest Rates? Plus, how investors should think about Oracle’s phenomenal outlook. See thrivent.com/social for important disclosures.

Plus, how investors should think about Oracle’s phenomenal outlook.

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What Interest Rate Cuts Mean for Your Retirement Portfolio

What Interest Rate Cuts Mean for Your Retirement Portfolio Here is how different asset classes, as well as your spending, will be affected. See thrivent.com/social for important disclosures.

Here is how different asset classes, as well as your spending, will be affected.

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New tax act: Key changes to know

On July 4, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law. This extensive new piece of legislation carries implications for all American taxpayers. While details are still emerging, here’s a rundown of several major changes—and how they could directly impact your financial strategy.

On July 4, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law. This extensive new piece of legislation carries implications for all...

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Traditional IRA vs. Roth IRA: What’s the difference?

When saving for retirement, many people consider individual retirement accounts (IRAs). The two types of IRAs are traditional and Roth—the primary difference between them is how and when your money is taxed.

Learn how to use a traditional or Roth IRA to save for retirement.

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4th Quarter 2025 Market Outlook: Strong markets, weakening fundamentals

The U.S. economy has been stronger than most forecasts, despite high levels of policy uncertainty, particularly around international trade. Consumer spending has stayed robust, unemployment has stayed near historical lows, and there has been substantial investment related to artificial intelligence (AI). As a result, earnings have held up better than most analysts expected and have been repeatedly revised higher.

For fourth quarter, Thrivent Asset Management experts are closely watching labor data, inflation and actions by the Fed.

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Any time your life changes, your financial plan deserves a fresh look. Here are different life events that may trigger a need to update your life insurance coverage: https://bit.ly/47koSvA

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Any time your life changes, your financial plan deserves a fresh look. Here are different life events that may trigger a need to update your life insurance coverage: https://bit.ly/47koSvA

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7 Steps to Estimating Your In-Retirement Cash Flow Needs

It may be difficult to forecast your actual income-replacement needs with a great deal of precision. Even as you attempt to anticipate every in-retirement expense to the penny, unforeseen expenditures such as healthcare costs can buffet spending around on a year-to-year basis. But because anticipated income needs are such a key ingredient in the retirement-income puzzle, it’s helpful to come up with as realistic a figure as possible while also being realistic that your expenditures are apt to vary over time.

Rules of thumb may be too high for affluent retirees with high savings rates, but healthcare costs are a major swing factor....

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Thinking about extending your life insurance coverage? Learn more about what to expect when your term life insurance expires and the pros and cons of term-to-life conversions: https://bit.ly/459jpXb

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Thinking about extending your life insurance coverage? Learn more about what to expect when your term life insurance expires and the pros and cons of term-to-life conversions: https://bit.ly/459jpXb

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Investing in volatile times

Experiencing stock market volatility is never fun. But enduring market volatility is part of investing. Staying patient and prudent—rather than panicking—is almost always the right course of action.

Is market volatility making you want to overhaul your investment strategy?

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Your money: How to navigate a windfall

You have many options and strategies for managing a windfall. The key is to think beyond the moment and invest as much as possible to enhance your life for many years to come.

Whether you’ve won it big in the lottery or just received a generous inheritance, there are many factors to consider with having a large sum of money at your...

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