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2025 Business Owner Benchmark
Find out what strategies business owners are pursuing for 2025.
- Election 2024
Election 2024: Plan, and Prepare for All Outcomes
Scenario analysis: Planning strategies for each election result.
- Tax News You Can Use
IRS Grants Extensions of Time for Taxpayers in Declared Disaster Areas
Review for a list of impacted states.
- Money Masterclass
The Entrepreneur's Trust
Will your wealth plan encourage your children’s entrepreneurial spirit or foster complacency?
- Trends & Strategies
Preparing for Potential State Wealth Taxes
Understand wealth planning strategies to prepare for potential new state taxes on wealth.
- Money Masterclass
Funding Education: Know Your Options
Explore your options for funding education.
- The Art of Collecting
Valuing, Appraising and Transferring Your Art Collection
Understand the financial implications of transferring your collection to family or charity.
- Trends & Strategies
To Roth or Not to Roth?
Learn why it may be an advantageous time to convert your retirement savings to a Roth IRA.
- Trends & Strategies
Year-End Planning: Challenging Assumptions
Experts share strategies to prepare for the new year.
- Trends & Strategies
Preparing for IPO-Generated Wealth:Your Questions Answered
Learn how your company’s IPO may affect your financial plan.
- For Advisors
2021 Wealth Planning Symposium: Advisor Benchmarking Report
Professional advisors share insights on key themes transforming the wealth planning landscape.
- Trends & Strategies
Interstate Relocation Checklist
Follow these steps to navigate the financial aspects of your move.
- For Advisors
Today's Top Tax and Estate Planning Techniques
Practical advice to give clients the confidence to take action amid an uncertain future.
- Money Masterclass
Divorce & Real Estate: Avoiding a Tax Surprise
Align assets and goals with expert analysis.
- Money Masterclass
Spending in Retirement: Planning for Withdrawals
Learn how to balance optimal asset allocation with your withdrawal needs.
- Trends & Strategies
Understanding the QSBS Tax Exemption
An under-utilized opportunity offers big tax savings.
- For Advisors
Serving Clients In An Evolving Fiduciary Landscape
COVID-19 has made a lasting impact on almost everything, and trust management is no exception.
- Money Masterclass
A Stress Test For Your Estate Plan
Are there surprises lurking in your plan?
- Money Masterclass
Transitioning from Business Owner to Wealth Owner
Will you be able to meet your post-sale cash flow needs?
- Money Masterclass
Family Business: The Keep or Sell Decision
Decide whether to keep or sell your family business.
- Money Masterclass
5 Components of a Successful Succession Plan
Help your business thrive through a succession plan.
- Trends & Strategies
The Power of Early: The Annual Gift Tax Exclusion
Maximize the benefits of the annual gift tax exclusion.
- Money Masterclass
Cash Flow: Planning to Fund Major Purchases
Cash-flow management strategies for the C-suite.
- Money Masterclass
Executive Tax Reference Guide
Optimize tax treatment for executive compensation.
- Money Masterclass
Legacy Planning: Supporting Family and Causes
Know your options for gifting to family and charitable causes.
- Money Masterclass
Common Reasons Business Sale Transactions Fail
Avoid common pitfalls that derail the sale of a business.
- Money Masterclass
How to Relocate Successfully
Consider all aspects of relocation, from health care to tax.
- Markets
Looking Through the Triple Net Lens
Focus on the impact of expenses, taxes and inflation on gross returns.
- Trends & Strategies
Tax Policy Resource Center
Research-based insights at the intersection of changing tax policy and managing complex wealth.
- For Advisors
Carried Interest and the 2024 Election: What’s at Stake?
Explore both parties’ proposals on taxing carried interests.
- Trends & Strategies
Changing Tax Policy: Plan, Don’t Predict
Learn our outlook for the most likely tax changes and how to prepare your plan for change.
- For Advisors
Understanding the QSBS Tax Exclusion
Capital gain tax benefits for qualified small business stock.
- Money Masterclass
Funding your Lifestyle and Ambitions
Our goals-based approach helps you make critical financial decisions and do more with your wealth.
- For Advisors
Avoiding the IRMAA Cliffs
Managing income can help avoid “falling off the IRMAA cliffs.”
- Trends & Strategies
The 2022 Business Owner Benchmark Report
Gain insight on the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing business owners.
- For Advisors
Mega-Backdoor Roth Conversions: Supercharge Retirement
Maximize your client’s savings with these considerations.
- For Advisors
Trust Income Tax and the Mysterious DNI Deduction
Insights into complex issues surrounding the taxation of trusts.
- Trends & Strategies
How to Reduce Your Audit Risks
Best practices for reducing the likelihood of audit, and how to be prepared in the event of one.
- Trends & Strategies
Election 2024: Key Tax Proposals
Though it's still early days for the 2024 election, the information available can help you evaluate each party's tax positions.
- For Advisors
The Expiring Exemption: Is Chicken Little Right?
What could the expiring exemption really mean for taxpayers?
- Election 2024
What Do We Know About Vice President Harris’ Tax Proposals?
Harris’ past policy positions may inform current proposals.
- Tax News You Can Use
What Do We Know About Vice President Harris’ Tax Proposals?
Harris’ past policy positions may inform current proposals.
- Trends & Strategies
Update: 2024 Supreme Court Decisions and Business Owners
Understand how recent rulings impact tax and regulations.
- Tax News You Can Use
New RMD rules issued by the IRS
We now have certainty on RMDs for inherited accounts.
- Tax News You Can Use
§6166 Deferral and Other Tools for the Illiquid Estate
Learn ways to reduce the liquidity burden from estate taxes.
- Tax News You Can Use
SEP and SIMPLE Retirement Plans for Small Employers
Explore plan options that offer choice and flexibility.
- Election 2024
Election 2024 Results: Key Takeaways
Planning and market implications following the election.
- Tax News You Can Use
Options for a Spouse as Beneficiary of a Retirement Account
Learn about the options available to spousal beneficiaries.
- Tax News You Can Use
Managing Liquidity with Split-Dollar Life Insurance
Discover the benefits of split-dollar arrangements.
- Tax News You Can Use
Ring Out the Old Year: 2024 Year-End Tax Planning
Review last minute tax planning strategies for 2024.
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