Financial planning

The move is one of the largest of the year.

Gifting embedded loss assets can avoid a step-down in basis and preserve capital losses. Here's how to go about it, under several scenarios.

Do RIAs still have a clear advantage when it comes to modern planning software?

Tax-rate arbitrage is one approach, but it’s far from the only one, according to contributor Michael Kitces.

Any tax increases on high-income individuals and corporations would be offset by massive spending packages targeted at accelerating the country’s recovery from the coronavirus, according to the firm.

Procyon Partners, which caters to UHNW clients and retirement plans, had a rocky separation from the same former firm.

Perceptions on relationships, health, and lifestyle have also changed.

The move follows efforts to reduce expenses in the company’s global wealth management business.

“They’re now realizing: Let’s actually get the contingency plan in place,” said Dominic Volek, head of sales at Henley & Partners, the world’s biggest citizenship and residency advisory firm.

“What this tool does uniquely is it takes the depersonalized delivery of benefits and really helps the individual determine how best to get the most out of their benefits,” says Voya’s Andrew Frend.

At home or under a socially distanced beach umbrella, these diverse titles will help while away this singular season.

Startup Breakaway Bookkeeping & Advising is building a network of finance professionals to act as virtual CFOs for small-business clients.

Affluent investors are concerned about transparency, performance and value, according to a new report by Capgemini.

Talks had focused on plans to attract $15 billion of assets under management, mostly from wealthy Latin Americans, according to people familiar with the matter.

As much as $16 trillion of global wealth may be wiped away this year as a result of volatility and economic fallout from the pandemic.

The wirehouse says it wants to simplify pricing for separately managed accounts and expand client choice.

“The stocks that I hadn’t heard of three months ago all of a sudden are the most active — that’s not where investors go, that’s where traders might go or hobbyists might go,” says a private wealth advisor at UBS.

About 6% of the country’s family offices have more than $5 billion of assets under management, while roughly a third control $500 million or less.

Major donor-advised fund providers said they’re using webinars, podcasts, social media and emails to nudge clients to give.

The central bank’s own data show that slightly more than half of U.S. households own stocks. But that doesn’t come close to telling the whole story.