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AXA Advisors

Helping You Plan Your Financial Future

Don Hughett and Joe Brungs are financial professionals who have found that their team approach is incredibly valuable in servicing both their many corporate and individual clients.

Their aim is to empower you to make informed decisions and take effective action toward meeting your specific goals. 

Through AXA Advisors, Don and Joe are able to approach each client as an individual and offer objective advice to appropriately fit your unique situation.

This site has been created to to help you gain a better understanding of the financial concepts behind insurance, investing, retirement, estate planning*, and wealth preservation. It is also to help you become aware of the opportunities and potential rewards that become available when you take a proactive approach to your personal financial situation. Most importantly, we hope you see the value of working with skilled professionals to pursue your financial goals.

Feel free to browse our site. You'll find a variety of articles, calculators, and research that we hope will answer your questions or stimulate your interest.

If you have a specific question or want more information, just click on contact us in the menu to the right.

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Newsletters

Tax Law Keeps S Corporations Attractive

S corporations are more common than C corporations and partnerships, perhaps because they are not subject to the corporate tax. Instead, profits and losses flow directly to shareholders, who are currently taxed at lower individual income tax rates. Read why reorganizing as an S corporation may be a smart move.

Deciding When to Begin

Waiting until full retirement age (or up to age 70) to claim Social Security may result in significantly higher monthly benefits. At age 62, the earliest age to claim Social Security, the amount received could be only 70% of the benefit received at "full retirement age" (which ranges from age 65 to 67 depending on year of birth).

Using Living Benefits for Retirement Income

Many Americans are finding it difficult to predict how much they can save by retirement. Because traditional pensions are available to just one out of three workers today, a potential way of creating a guaranteed income stream in retirement is to purchase the guaranteed living benefits that are available with some variable annuities.

What Do Price/Earnings Ratios Really Have to Offer?

It's not hard to find the price/earnings ratios of publicly traded companies or even the market as a whole reported in the news. Unfortunately, it may be difficult to understand what the numbers mean without the ability to make meaningful comparisons.

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Calculators

Life Insurance

How much life insurance would you need to produce a sufficient income stream for your family?

College Funding

Use this calculator to estimate the cost of your child’s education, based on the variables you input.

Tax-Deferred Savings

Compare the potential future value of tax-deferred investments to that of taxable investments.

Cost of Retirement

Use this calculator to estimate how much income and savings you may need in retirement.

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