CFO News Room

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” – this week’s edition kicks off with the news that the passage of “SECURE Act 2.0” has brought a wide range of changes to the world of retirement planning. How advisors are increasingly purchasing individual bonds rather than bond funds in client accounts.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

stocks (which have a lengthy track record of outperforming inflation over long time horizons) and Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS). George Kinder, the founder of Life Planning, developed 3 questions that probe deeper into a client’s hopes, dreams, and fears, to help advisors develop complete and impactful financial plans.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

And so, that’s how this actually started was, at first, I knew I wanted to just get a deeper dive into our numbers, into our business, our process, and, so, I engaged in the CFO solutions services. And so, that was where I found the gap is that the CFO would identify all these things. Michael: Interesting.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Among respondents without an advisor, 27% said they would be interested in receiving help on retirement income planning (27%), Social Security and Medicare advice (22%), developing a financial plan (22%), and tax guidance (21%), though notably tax guidance was the top area cited among those with at least $500,000 in assets.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Estate planning is commonly a big point of discussion, as well. And for most advisors that takes us down a road of tax planning and lots of different types of trusts and family limited partnerships and GRATs and IDGTs and all the different strategies that are out there, or at least as long as Congress lets us keep playing those games. .”

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act, passed in December 2019, brought a wide range of changes to the retirement planning landscape, from the death of the ‘stretch’ IRA to raising the age for Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) to 72. In addition, SECURE 2.0 In addition, SECURE 2.0

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And one of the flyers that came out said that I did estate planning, and tax planning, and business succession planning, and all these things I didn’t know anything about. And so, ultimately, I… Michael: Not actually that deep on your business succession planning experience as a 20-year-old.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

But we want it on the calendar so that we keep clients and ourselves accountable so that we make sure that those meetings actually do happen. And the four pillars are the financial plan, risk management, so just checking all their what-if scenarios that something…a husband dies, wife dies, long-term care, disability.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

So, I don’t have to have this great call and then at the end of it, tell someone, “Yeah, that all sounds great and if you want that, you move all your accounts over and that’s the only way we’ll work with you. ” And that stuff obviously is extremely helpful going into those phone calls.

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CFO Share

MARCH 9, 2021

If you are selling products (or sometimes even services) in other states, be proactive to avoid hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax penalties: talk to your accountants to see if you need to do a nexus study. Take advantage of the Employee Retention Tax Credit . Or contact our accountants to see if your business qualifies.

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MARCH 16, 2021

Information about tax changes the Biden administration is considering leaked yesterday , creating some big headlines in media. First major tax hike since 1993” according to Bloomberg. As a fractional CFO , my first reaction to any tax reform is: what does this mean for small business? All the other tax changes.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

We also have a number of articles on retirement planning: How advisors can incorporate Social Security benefits into a client’s retirement asset allocation. The end of the year is often a busy time for financial advisors, as they help clients with year-end tax planning, taking the proper RMDs, and other time-sensitive tasks.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

A potential compromise during the lame-duck Congressional session could see a boost to the child tax credit and extended tax breaks for businesses. From there, we have several articles on tax planning: How advisors can add value for their clients by managing their exposure to mutual fund capital gains distributions.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Moreover, S-corps and pass-through companies are facing tax increases too…. Elimination of pass-through tax deductions. If you are a high-income S-corp, partnership, or sole proprietor, the proposed tax plan will eliminate your Qualified Business Income Deduction , commonly referred to as the pass-through deduction.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 24, 2023

In most press accounts about the impending appointments, Zients’s primary bond to Biden is the time he spent as the White House COVID czar—an intense 15 months, during which they masterfully rolled out vaccines and then sometimes sputtered in their quest to vanquish the pandemic. Skepticism and human reason” [ Crooked Timber ]. “[W]e

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