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What To Do With An Inheritance
Wondering what to do with an inheritance? Receiving an inheritance, especially an unexpected one, might leave you feeling overwhelmed by the options. Ideally, an inheritance should bring you closer to financial independence, but the most important thing you can do is seek help from a financial adviser or financial planner to put a strategy in place. An adviser can help you plan investments, retirement savings, build an emergency fund and much more. Though a strategy will help you keep and grow the assets you've inherited, it doesn't have to be perfect or static. It can and should change over time.
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