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How Advisors Can Offer Tax Planning And Stay In Compliance

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And the consequences for incorrect tax advice can include legal and financial penalties if a client were to be harmed by the wrong advice – which is often not covered by the firm’s E&O insurance –creating an expensive liability when tax advice goes wrong. Affects how much can be saved to pre- and after-tax accounts !

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (May 13-14)

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Also in industry news this week: Why industry groups representing investment advisers and others have blasted an SEC proposal that would significantly expand its Custody Rule A new study suggests that organic client growth and profit margins are the key factors driving RIA valuations, with the firm’s affiliation model having little to no impact (..)

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Dec 24-25) 2022

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While RIA M&A activity has been red hot during the past couple of years, a survey suggests that advisors are expecting lower valuations in 2023. Also related to Roth accounts, the legislation would align the rules for employer-retirement-plan-based Roth accounts (e.g., Further, SECURE 2.0 Altogether, SECURE 2.0

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Dec 17-18) 2022

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tax planning or deeper retirement planning ) can be a way to increase client satisfaction and encourage them to be vocal advocates for the firm. In 2021, elevated equity valuations and relatively low bond yields led the researchers to suggest 3.3% But many firms will find that their client referral rates are flat.

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Restructuring Compensation And Roles To Align For Growth

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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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Investor Taxes and Stock Prices: Threading the Needle!

Musings on Markets

In the United States, the discussion of what individuals pay as taxes on their investment income is complicated by where that investment income originates. That effect is often missed by analysts because it is not explicitly part of the valuation of publicly traded companies, but it implicitly plays a role, and perhaps even a key one.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

It’s part of their own tax planning. In 1998, you asked famed value investor Michael Price what he learned from investing in Sunbeam Corporation, which was run by Chainsaw Al Dunlap and was just rife with accounting fraud. What’s the valuation? Unless they have their own foundation. Let Bill worry about it.