Southern Trust Financial Planning is a registered investment advisory firm located in Sarasota, Florida. Southern Trust Financial Planning specializes in providing objective financial planning and investment management with the goal of helping clients grow and protect their assets through all of life's stages.
Marc S. Wolff
James P. Cooper
Paul S. Harris
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Are Alternative Investments Right for You?
With alternative investments, it’s critical to sort through the complexity.
Test Your Estate Strategy Knowledge
Estate management can help ensure that your assets are transferred according to your wishes while managing tax issues.
How Does Your Credit Score Compare?
Have you ever wondered how your credit score compares to the rest of the country? Take a look and see.
U.S. Personal Savings Rate
What can be learned from the savings rate?
Inventorying Your Possessions
Creating an inventory of your possessions can save you time, money and aggravation in the event you someday suffer losses.
Raising Healthy Children
Healthy habits are one of the greatest gifts to give your child.
Investing with Your Heart
For some, the social impact of investing is just as important as the return, perhaps more important.
Stop Wasting Money
One way to find money is to examine your current spending habits and eliminate money wasters.
The New Red Scare: Chinese Ownership of U.S. Debt
China owns a portion of the total outstanding debt of the U.S. Government. What does it mean?
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Inflation & Retirement
Estimate how much income may be needed at retirement to maintain your standard of living.
Annuity Comparison
This calculator compares a hypothetical fixed annuity with an account where the interest is taxed each year.
How Much Home Can I Afford?
With a few simple inputs you can estimate how much of a mortgage you may be able to obtain.
Should I Buy or Lease an Auto?
This calculator compares the financial impact of leasing versus buying an automobile.
Lifetime of Earnings
Estimate how much you have the potential to earn during your working years.
Historical Inflation
This calculator shows how inflation over the years has impacted purchasing power.
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Investment Strategies for Retirement
Investment tools and strategies that can enable you to pursue your retirement goals.
5 Smart Investing Strategies
There are some smart strategies that may help you pursue your investment objectives
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 Principles
Principles that can help create a portfolio designed to pursue investment goals.
Managing Your Lifestyle
Using smart management to get more of what you want and free up assets to invest.
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
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Coaches
Coaches have helped you your whole life, in ways big and small. We’d like to be one of them.
Are Alternative Investments Right for You?
With alternative investments, it’s critical to sort through the complexity.
Can Election Results Predict the Market?
How do the markets usually react to elections? Was the 2016 election any different?
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations? Here are three tips.
Should You Ever Retire?
A growing number of Americans are pushing back the age at which they plan to retire. Or deciding not to retire at all.
To Buy or Not to Buy
The decision whether to buy or rent a home may have long-term implications.