Feb 1, 2012
By Kevin McKinley
Advisors can earn their fees and their clients' appreciation by boning up on what can be done with an inherited IRA....
Sep 23, 2011
By Diana Britton
Most financial advisors are taking a wait-and-see approach to President Barack Obama’s tax proposal announced Monday, but some say it could pay to prepare clients for some kind of tax reform anyway...
Aug 1, 2011
By Jerry Gleeson
Industry observers say many financial advisors are unaware of changes to come. It could haunt them if clients get burned....
Jun 24, 2011
By Stan Luxenberg
To develop a tax strategy, it is necessary to study data on past performance and make a subjective judgment about how funds will fare in the future....
May 27, 2011
By Jerry Gleeson
It’s an opportunity that ultra-high-net-worth households in the United States have never seen before—the chance to give away up to $5 million over the course of their lives, tax-free. Yet a good number of them are passing it up, some wealth management experts are saying...
May 18, 2011
By Jerry Gleeson
Despite Congress’ eleventh-hour move in December to head off sharply higher estate taxes, confusion remains over the future of the levies. The tax revisions lawmakers made at the end of last year set a maximum rate of 35 percent with a $5 million exemption for 2011 through 2012...
May 17, 2011
By Jerry Gleeson
Larry Swedroe calls it the Holy Grail—the search for managers who can deliver returns that beat the appropriate risk-adjusted benchmarks. And it’s “a fool’s errand,” he adds; he spends much of his new book, The Quest for Alpha (John Wiley & Sons), reviewing the evidence for that view...
May 5, 2011
By Jerry Gleeson
Broker/dealer executives who speak at their national conventions often aim for a tone that rallies the troops, and the Raymond James Financial Services conference in Las Vegas this week followed the pattern—with one surprising exception during Chief Executive Dick Averitt’s address...
Apr 29, 2011
By Steven B. Gorin
Meet your clients' needs for a comfortable retirement cushion through a sale to a beneficiary grantor trust; and reduce assets enough to avoid taxes...
Mar 29, 2011
By Melvin A. Warshaw
For some wealthy clients, there's a two-year golden opportunity to maximize enhanced funding strategies and leverage the death benefit. Don't miss out...
Mar 1, 2011
By Kevin McKinley
Some smart money moves adult children can make when caring for elderly parents' finances....
Feb 16, 2011
By Charles Paikert
The Internal Revenue Service’s latest amnesty offer for Americans with undeclared income from offshore accounts should serve as a reminder to wealth managers that some of their clients may owe money to the IRS and not realize it. ...
Feb 8, 2011
BY CHRISTOPHER R. HOYT
Tax-planning strategies that make the most sense in light of the changing rates...
Feb 8, 2011
BY CARLYN S. MCCAFFREY & PAM H. SCHNEIDER
Time traveling with the GST tax in 2011 and beyond...
Feb 8, 2011
BY DOUGLAS MOORE & DAVID A. HANDLER
The 2010 Act opens the door to creative planning techniques...
Jan 12, 2011
By Douglas Moore, a managing director of the U.S. Trust Family Office in New York.
Now’s the time to begin discussing new planning strategies with your clients....
Dec 7, 2010
By Jerry Gleeson
The gift that ultra-high-net-worth investors want most this holiday season is one step closer to reality: imminent congressional action on new estate tax rules. ...
Nov 11, 2010
By Jerry Gleeson
Most wealthy families say they won't change their chartible giving behaviors based on tax increases, but some advisors say it's still a good idea to write your check this year rather than next....
Nov 3, 2010
By Diana Britton and Charles Paikert
If you believe in the “politicians-are-idiots” theory, you’ll love gridlock. After all, the economy and stocks tend to do better under divided government....
Sep 9, 2010
By Richard A. Behrendt, Senior Estate Planner, Robert W. Baird & Co.
Why Super Rich Clients Should Consider Making Taxable Gifts in 2010....
Sep 8, 2010
By Jerry Gleeson
With President Obama and congressional Republicans at loggerheads over tax cut extensions for the wealthy next year, some financial advisors say they are planning for the worst. ...
Sep 2, 2010
By Stevie D. Conlon
Changes to cost-basis law will present challenges for the brokerage community....
Jun 10, 2010
By John Aidan Byrne
“We are really the only major relevant firm that actually went into the 2008 and 2009 abyss and came out the same firm,” Mulholland told Registered Rep., in an exclusive interview at his office in Weehawken, N.J. “We went in as UBS and we came out as UBS. The others, they came out entirely different.” ...
Jun 7, 2010
By Jerry Gleeson
Americans will be feeling more generous this year, according to a projection from the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College. After falling off in 2009, charitable giving by individuals in the United States is expected to increase this year by 3 to 4.5 percent, the center estimates. ...
May 1, 2010
By Kevin McKinley
Betting the house on higher interest rates....
Mar 25, 2010
By Jerry Gleeson
Your clients may fear a huge tax bite after President Obama signed historic health care legislation into law this week....
Feb 18, 2010
By David A. Geracioti, VonAldo.com
Financial advisors with entrepreneurial clients—first-generation wealth creators—best take heed of Obama’s recently introduced plans to bring back the federal estate tax. Obama’s plan would actually raise taxes on farmers and small businesses despite decreased tax and increased exemptions. (FAs with old money clients, well, you’ve probably already helped them take steps to dampen estate taxes.) For more, please go to VonAldo.com, the blog of Registered Rep. Editor-in-Chief David A. Geracioti.
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Jun 1, 2009
By Kevin McKinley
With mortgage rates at a 40-year low, it’s a great time to refinance, but be sure to use the proceeds of the loan wisely...
Feb 1, 2009
By Kevin McKinley
Making the most of clients’ residential real estate for tax savings....
Feb 1, 2009
By Kevin McKinley
How to help clients calculate and maximize the amount of money available to pay for higher education expenses by encouraging parents to apply for financial aid....
Nov 1, 2008
By Kevin McKinley
Clients frequently want to know how to avoid taxes and penalties and deduct losses on 529s....
Nov 1, 2008
By Kevin McKinley
Giving charitably with the holiday spirit in mind can benefit both client and advisor. ...
Oct 1, 2008
By Kevin McKinley
There are a few major things to consider as you help your clients set up 529 college savings plans...
Oct 1, 2008
By Kevin McKinley
When it comes to giving money away, the only hard part for your clients should be accumulating the wealth in the first place...
Sep 1, 2008
By John Kador
An advisor turns to outside separate accounts manager to help him turn a sophisticated prospect with tax-management issues into a client....
