Stanton Group Wealth Partners

08/10/2026

Using Income Annuities in a Retirement Income Plan: Creating Pension-Like Security with a Laddered Approach

Retirement income planning is about converting savings into a reliable paycheck that lasts a lifetime while protecting against longevity risk, sequence-of-returns risk, and inflation.

08/05/2026

How Taxes Change in Retirement: An Illinois Resident’s Reality Check (With a Second Home in Florida)

One of the biggest misconceptions about retirement is that your tax bill automatically drops the day you stop working. For many people it does fall—sometimes dramatically—but the rules, income sources, and planning opportunities shift in important ways. Understanding those shifts can save six fi...

07/04/2026

4th of July, 2026: 250 Years of Unalienable Rights

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07/01/2026

Our Investment Philosophy: Core & Protect

Risk-First, Evidence-Driven, Sleep-at-Night InvestingIn a world that celebrates the cult of “buy and hold” on one side and aggressive market-timing on the other, we take a different path. We believe the primary job of a portfolio manager is not to predict the future, but to respect risk. Markets...

06/26/2026

Welcoming Alec Stanton to the Stanton Group Wealth Partners Team!

We are thrilled to announce that Alec Stanton has officially joined Stanton Group Wealth Partners as a new member of our team in Naperville, Illinois.Alec supports the firm as an Insurance Case Planning Analyst, bringing specialized expertise to our insurance-related client strategies and case coord...

06/18/2026

Attended the open house at Brella Pak's new bottling facility in Itasca, my daughter Ashley's new employer, yesterday. Great learning about the co packing business from a fast growing Chicago based business!

05/19/2026

The Risk/Return Problem in Retirement

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02/27/2026

How to Create a Retirement Income Strategy that Works

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02/20/2026

Risk-First, Evidence-Driven, Sleep-at-Night Investing

Risk-First, Evidence-Driven, Sleep-at-Night InvestingIn a world that celebrates the cult of “buy and hold” on one side and aggressive market-timing on the other, we take a different path. We believe the primary job of a portfolio manager is not to predict the future, but to respect risk.