Firm:
Strong Tower Associates
Job Title:
President
Biography:
Ash Toumayants is the founder of Strong Tower Associates, a wealth management firm dedicated to helping clients in all stages of life prepare for retirement. For over a decade, he has helped hard-working people across Central Pennsylvania prepare for retirement.
It is Ash's mission to educate his clients so they can make more sound choices regarding their financial future and achieve ideal retirement lifestyle. By working side-by-side with clients, Ash helps to demystify the markets, protect assets and map out the right path to a financially secure future. He wants clients to think of Strong Tower as their main ally in the journey to retirement. Strong Tower was founded with the goal of peeling back the veil of confusion that shrouds the financial world and to establish a relationship built on fiduciary responsibility, trust, and transparency. Strong Tower Associates' wealth management services include individualized financial and retirement planning, complimentary consultations, portfolio monitoring through Wealthguard, annuity stress tests, workshops, seminars and more.
Ash spent his childhood in a variety of places. He lived in Cairo, San Diego, Gainesville, and Houston before attending Penn State for college and then making Happy Valley his home. Ash's father was a small-business owner, which largely shaped his drive to help people. He watched his dad run his factory for over 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. While his father worked hard at running his business, he didn't work as hard to protect his wealth. While he retired with a decent sum of money, it was far from representative of the decades of work he had put in.
This has fueled Ash's passion for understanding and educating his clients and is why his mission is what it is: to help clients make more sound choices regarding their financial future. Ash graduated from Penn State in 2004, began working as an advisor thereafter, and then launched his Strong Tower Associates in 2013.
Ash lives in State College with his lovely wife Noelle, and two kids.
Education:
BS, Industrial Engineering, Penn State University
CRD Number:
6327275
Disclaimer:
Investment Advisory Services offered through Retirement Wealth Advisors, (RWA) a Registered Investment Advisor. Strong Tower Associates and RWA are not affiliated. Investing involves risk including the potential loss of principal. No investment strategy can guarantee a profit or protect against loss in periods of declining values. Opinions expressed are subject to change without notice and are not intended as investment advice or to predict future performance. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Consult your financial professional before making any investment decision.
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WealthGuard™ is a complete portfolio monitoring system. Designed by determining the amount of downside risk a client is willing to tolerate, WealthGuard™ is added to client accounts to help protect from downside risk. WealthGuard™ is not a stop loss strategy. When the account value in the portfolio hits the targeted downside value, an alert is sent to the client, advisor, and money manager. The money manager trades the account as indicated on the WealthGuard™ agreement.
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Strong Tower Associates Wealth Management Company Introduction
The Death Benefit is what the Insurance company pays out to the beneficiary when the insured individual passes away.
The Cash Value is the amount of cash the Owner of the policy has access to by taking out a loan on the policy, making a withdrawal from the policy (if it allows you to do so), or when the policy is canceled, the Owner receives the cash value assuming there are no surrender charges, fees you pay when you cancel a policy within the first 10 to 20 years.
Depending on the type of policy, the beneficiary can receive both the cash value and death Benefit. But in most cases, when the insured dies, the beneficiary only receives the Death Benefit and the Insurance company keeps the cash value. So let's say someone has a $100,000 death benefit and a $30,000 cash value. When they die, their family would get a check for $100,000. I know that some people struggle with the concept of the insurance company keeping the $30,000, but the insurance purchased was for $100,000, the cash value represents excess premium paid and an interest rate paid by the insurance company. The difference between cash value and the death benefit is what insurance companies call "Net amount at risk" as in it's the amount they're on the hook for. The $30,000 would represent the return of part of the premium and some interest and the other $70,000 would be the insurance amount totaling $100,000. Imagine a situation where the $30,000 would keep growing over many years and it becomes $100,000. That's when a policy "matures", meaning that the death benefit and cash value is the same amount, the insurance company has no risk anymore, and that the owner has effectively paid for their own insurance because what they have is a glorified savings account.
Term Insurance is a type of Insurance that doesn't have any cash value, and it's why it's the least expensive because none of the monthly cost is going into a "savings account" called cash value
I don't think I've ever written this much about life insurance, is anyone still awake?
As Jeff says, you can’t contribute out of the disability payments. However, if you’re married and your spouse is working and earning at lease as much as you both plan to contribute, then you can still contribute to a Roth IRA. So your spouse would have to make at least $13,000 if you’re both over 50.
All the best, Ash
Well, I'm not sure, your best option is to ask your medical provider to make the case for you. Usually, Medicare will pay for dental procedures that are as a result of an illness or injury that affected the person's teeth, like cancer in the jaw. In your case, the illness hasn't affected your teeth per say, but they may cause more issues if not addressed, and I don't know if that will work.
Best of luck, hope it goes well.
All the best, Ash
Most Federal benefits are tied to a work record. You have to work and earn a minimum amount of time and money to be eligible. On the other hand, programs like Medicaid are state based so they might qualify for Medicaid. I think you need an immigration attorney to help you further.
I get questions like this all the time. It's a matter of verbiage. The colloquial language that most people use goes something like this. "You get the higher of the two Social Security amounts. If your spouse's is higher, you get that and you lose yours." The way Social Security likes to say it is, "You keep getting your own benefit amount. If your spouse's benefit was higher, we will increase your benefit to equal your spouse's." In the end they both come up to the same income amount. The Social Security administration just explains the how a little better.