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About Michael Fliegelman

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

The 3 Phases of a Financial Plan

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Today, I want to talk about the three phases of a financial plan:

Phase One: Wealth Accumulation. 

Phase Two: Wealth Distribution.

Phase Three: Wealth Preservation.

Phase One: Wealth Accumulation

Most people spend a good amount […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2021-02-04T15:07:34+00:00February 1st, 2021|Blog, Financial Planning, Retirement Planning|0 Comments

Purchasing Life Insurance with Before-Tax Dollars

Today I want to talk about life insurance and how it can be purchased. Most of the time people buy life insurance with after-tax dollars — dollars that they’ve already paid taxes on. Since the SECURE Act was signed into law, one of the things we are doing more and more is looking at ways […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

Special Needs Planning

{4 minutes to read}  Special needs planning comes about when we have clients that have a dependent (child or adult) who is not going to be able to take care of himself or herself when the parents are gone. Taking care of this special needs individual is a very, very important part of estate planning.

The […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2021-01-07T11:57:18+00:00January 7th, 2021|Blog, Estate Planning|0 Comments

The Season of Giving

{4 minutes to read} ‘Tis the season, as they say, for gifting. So today we’re going to focus on that task. We are in a unique time period where, under the recent tax law change that Donald Trump put in, the ability for ultra-high-net-worth and high-net-worth people to gift a large amount of money is […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2020-12-16T11:44:52+00:00December 16th, 2020|Blog, Financial Planning, Tax Planning|0 Comments

November is Long-Term Care Month

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At the time of this writing, it is Election Day, November 3rd, 2020. And besides being a very big day in America, it is also Long-Term Care Awareness Month.

Long-term care, to me, is a very personal thing because both my parents and my wife Donna’s parents spent time in assisted living nursing […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2020-11-24T15:50:12+00:00November 24th, 2020|Blog, Long Term Care Insurance|0 Comments

What is a Fiduciary?

{2 minutes to read} What is a fiduciary? A fiduciary is a person that is entrusted with financial decisions, whether they be investments or other types of financial responsibilities. An executor of a will, the trustee(s) of a trust, or an investment advisor regarding your investments, are all examples of fiduciaries. At Strategic Wealth Advisor […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2020-11-24T11:47:03+00:00November 24th, 2020|Blog, Financial Planning, Retirement Planning|0 Comments

Use It or Lose It — The Current Tax Law

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Today, I want to talk about the concept of “use it or lose it,” and how it pertains to the current tax law for wealthy clients. At the time of this blog, there are two weeks to the next presidential election. During Donald Trump’s time in office, he significantly increased the lifetime […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2020-10-20T10:38:02+00:00October 20th, 2020|Estate Planning, Retirement Planning|0 Comments

Employee Benefit Programs

{4 minutes to read}  Many times the first level of employee benefit programs for business owners is to establish a pension or 401(k) plan. Many times, however, business owners want to do something additional for, let’s say a key employee. There are areas of benefits that allow people who own businesses to provide a benefit […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2020-10-07T11:58:29+00:00October 7th, 2020|Blog, General, Retirement Planning, Tax Planning|0 Comments

Why Should You Give Us a Call?

{4 minutes to read}  Today I want to talk about three subjects:

  1. What do we actually do?
  2. How can we help?
  3. Why should you consider working with us?

What Do We Actually Do?

What we do is very diverse. We go under the heading of providing financial planning, but many times people don’t want to do a […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

The Pain of Discipline Versus the Pain of Regret

Today, I want to discuss with everyone two concepts that overlap. One is called The Pain of Discipline versus the Pain of Regret. The other one is Risk versus Consequences.

In 36 years of doing financial and insurance planning with many different types of people, I recognize that sometimes when we talk about risk with clients, […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.