Tax strategies

IRA balances are up, and so are divorces, particularly among baby boomers. These so-called gray divorces have roughly doubled over the past 25 years, according to the Pew Research Center.

Advisors must be prepared with tax and planning strategies to help when clients fall ill.

The Internal Revenue Service granted additional relief to victims of Hurricane Harvey on Wednesday by making it easier for 401(k)s and other employer-sponsored retirement plans to give loans and hardship distributions to aid victims.

Hurricane Harvey provides a grim reminder of how traumatic it can be to face the effects of severe weather. Here’s how to be effective if it happens to your clients.

The agency will allow some Texas residents to file certain individual and business tax returns and make some tax payments as late as Jan. 31.

These plans once merely supplemented health insurance. Now they are a vital part of a broader retirement strategy.

The cleanup goes on long after the storm has passed. Here’s how financial planners can provide advice for one of clients’ most expensive traumas.

Certain laws may require them to maintain the coverage with their former spouse.

Sometimes it’s business. Sometimes it’s sentimental. Whatever the reason, it’s almost always problematic when a client insists on keeping a very large position in a single stock.

What clients don’t know could cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars.