Kara Tesch, Author at The First National Bank in Sioux Falls

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Supporting local communities in 2024: Volunteering and stewardship recap

When you keep your money at a local, community bank like ours, you can rest assured that it’s being reinvested back into the communities in which you live, work, and play. We love the Sioux Falls area.

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Retirement timeline for tax-saving opportunities, other retirement benefits

First National Wealth Management

Are you stashing away the most money possible in your employer’s retirement plan? Contributing the maximum to your individual retirement account (IRA)? What about your Health Savings Account (HSA)? Do you know when you can and when you are required to access your retirement funds? Once you turn age 50, certain tax-saving opportunities become available to you.

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What is purpose? Hear from hospice doctor, author Jordan Grumet

Common Cents on the Prairie™

“I always tell people, ‘You can’t find purpose; you create it.’ But it is true that we have to understand the, you know, the ‘beckonings’ — the things in our life that we might want to build purpose around.” Hospice doctor, podcaster, and author Jordan Grumet was just 7 years old when his father passed away suddenly.

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Project Pan, No Buy 2025, and deinfluencing: The money trends you need to know about this year

The biggest 2025 money trends: Now that we’re in the new year and resolution-setters have made their goals known, you’ve maybe heard some terms floating around like “Project Pan” and “no-buy challenge.” After we all were constantly tightening our wallets to combat inflation in 2024, it seems that 2025 is shaping up to be the year of underconsumption.

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Bank Holiday Calendar

We want to make sure your banking needs are always taken care of. You can find our upcoming closures and hours in our bank holiday calendar below. For information on specific branch locations, visit here.

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Tea With Teammates

Santa Night

Want to know our teammates’ deepest, darkest secrets? Well, we can’t share those; they’d probably report us to HR for telling you. So instead, we sat down with none other than Santa and Mrs.

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8 year-end financial planning tips to get your money in shape for 2025

Want to know how financial experts get their money in shape for the new year — so you can too?

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Rolling for 40 years: Russ Robers celebrates lifelong business banking career with FNB

Shelley Schipper was 29 years old when her dad, Dave Koch, passed away. Suddenly, she was thrust to the helm of the family business: K&J Trucking. “Here I am, a 29-year-old girl working in the business but not overly visible in the business,” Shelley, president of K&J, recalled. “At the time, we had new trucks coming in.

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Grow with us during the 2025 Farmers ’N Bankers program

Now that we’re through the harvest and winter has begun to settle in, producers are starting to look forward to the next year and planning and preparing for 2025. Our Ag Banking team is looking forward to different programing for 2025 as well, and that includes our Farmers ’N Bankers program.

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2024 Year in Review

As inflation and economic strain continue to put a squeeze on everyone’s wallets, I would like to reiterate how grateful I am that you trust us with your financial lives. That is not something we take lightly at The First National Bank in Sioux Falls.

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