Kelly Financial Group

Kelly Financial Group Advisory services offered through LPL Financial, a registered investment advisor and separate entity from Kelly Financial Group.

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Kelly Financial Group, was founded by Michael Kelly in 1995. With a background in consumer finance and venture capital, he founded a company that would help Families and Businesses with the complexities of financial strategies. We are dedicated to our holistic approach to Wealth & Business Management. With a client base that has surpassed 1,000 households and businesses we strive to lower our client’s tax burdens while increasing their overall wealth. Our systems and processes enable our clients to focus on their personal life goals with the knowledge that their financial affairs are in order. Regular checkups allow their planning to evolve as their needs and desires do. Having been in the Antelope Valley for the last 30 plus years we understand the needs and desires of the wonderful people who live here. We have lived through the changes of our local economy and have helped numerous clients not only survive but also prosper. Take advantage of the opportunity to work with professionals who strive to preserve your financial future for you and your loved ones.

Which is the final word: your beneficiary designations or your will?Your beneficiary designations. In almost every circu...
06/25/2026

Which is the final word: your beneficiary designations or your will?

Your beneficiary designations. In almost every circumstance, it’s beneficiary designations.

It's one of the most overlooked facts in estate strategies. The beneficiary forms on file for your retirement accounts, insurance policies, and other accounts are legally binding—and they almost always override whatever your will says.

A former spouse still listed on a retirement account can inherit it. Someone written out of your will entirely can still receive an insurance payout. Assets intended for your children may pass to someone else because a form was never updated.

This applies across the board—even to payable-on-death bank accounts. 📋

The good news: a beneficiary review takes minutes. 💙

When did you last review yours?

Most couples spend years preparing financially for retirement.Very few have talked about what retirement will actually l...
06/24/2026

Most couples spend years preparing financially for retirement.

Very few have talked about what retirement will actually look like.

Not the number. The life.

👉 Where will you live?

👉 What will your days look like?

👉 What happens if one of you is ready to stop working and the other is not?

A 2025 Fidelity survey found that 48 percent disagree on the age they prepare to retire. And research from Ameriprise found that nearly two-thirds expect to retire at the same time, while only 11 percent actually do.

The gap between what couples assume and what they have actually discussed is where retirement quietly breaks down.

The good news is that most couples are not as far apart as they fear. They just have not had the conversation yet.

👉 If retirement is somewhere on your horizon, the most valuable thing you can do right now is not check your portfolio.

It is to sit down with your partner and start asking the questions you have both been putting off.

06/23/2026

See key market data for the week ending June 18, 2026.

06/22/2026

The latest issue of Market Week is available.

There's a version of your father you didn't know. The one who existed before you came along. Before the responsibility. ...
06/21/2026

There's a version of your father you didn't know. The one who existed before you came along. Before the responsibility. Before the sacrifices, you may not have fully understood until you were older.

Most of us only piece that together with time.

What fathers leave behind isn't just memories. It's a way of moving through the world.

A standard.

A sense of what it looks like to take care of the people who depend on you.

That's worth honoring. 👔

Happy Father's Day weekend to every father and father figure out there.

Most people assume that a spouse's unused estate tax exemption passes to the surviving spouse automatically.It doesn't.C...
06/17/2026

Most people assume that a spouse's unused estate tax exemption passes to the surviving spouse automatically.

It doesn't.

Claiming it REQUIRES A FILING WITH THE IRS within 9 months of a spouse's death.

The IRS doesn't send a reminder. The deadline just passes.

A six-month extension is available, bringing the total window to 15 months. But the clock starts the day your spouse dies, not the day you think to ask about it.

This is exactly the kind of detail that gets lost in the fog of grief and estate administration.

It's also exactly the kind of thing we watch for on behalf of the families we work with. We also help families by working with their tax, legal, and accounting professionals to make certain that paperwork is completed in a timely manner.

I wanted to share some perspectives on current developments driving markets and what they mean for your portfolio, since...
06/15/2026

I wanted to share some perspectives on current developments driving markets and what they mean for your portfolio, since there are many moving parts. Overall, the stock market has performed well, reaching new all-time highs, with...

06/15/2026

The latest issue of Market Week is available.

06/15/2026

See key market data for the week ending June 12, 2026.

Father's Day is at the end of this week. Before the dinner and the gifts, there's something worth talking about.Most men...
06/15/2026

Father's Day is at the end of this week. Before the dinner and the gifts, there's something worth talking about.

Most men will show up for everyone around them without being asked. But when it comes to their own health, the appointments get pushed off longer than they should. 💚

The CDC reports that women are 33 percent more likely than men to visit the doctor and twice as likely to seek preventive care.

If there is a man in your life worth celebrating on Sunday, ask when he last had a checkup.

That conversation might matter more than any gift.

Address

42306 10th Street W, Suite A
Lancaster, CA
93534

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 1pm

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