5 Ways to Setup Your Adult Children for Financial Success
As your children age and learn to navigate their own financial challenges and opportunities, guiding them through these milestones and instilling good financial habits will help set them up for financial success. This video reviews five financial tips to share with your loved ones.
Cryptocurrency: What’s It All About?
Attractive Bitcoin prices have many investors considering cryptocurrency for the first time. Before you start loading up on bitcoin or any other form of cryptocurrency, let’s take a closer look at what you may be getting yourself into.
Video FAQ: Liquidity 101
Liquidity refers to an asset that has a ready and waiting market on both sides of the buy-sell equation. If you are selling and there is liquidity, then you most likely will find a buyer willing to pay a fair price. This means you won’t be stuck holding the investment at a time when you need cash.
A 2021 look at The Fourth Turning
In 1997, Neil Howe and William Strauss published “The Fourth Turning” which goes into detail on how history moves in 80-year cycles and each one is divided into periods, defined by each generation (i.e., Baby Boomers, Generation X and Millennials) as they come into adulthood. Each of these phases hold one generation at a time, and each phase is associated with a specific societal role.
Video FAQ: What is a Net Unrealized Appreciation Strategy & Is It Right for Me?
We've been getting a lot of questions regarding Net Unrealized Appreciation (NUA) strategies. This video reviews the basics of NUA as well as some practical examples.
Your Kids are Grown – Here are 5 Ways You can Help Them - Preserve and Grow Their Wealth!
Your children are grown, they have a stable source of income, and are navigating through life milestones. It might be time for you to check-in and help set them up for success.
Video FAQ: An Overview of Gift Taxes for 2021
Yes, there is a federal tax on gifts. Here, we explore three ways to avoid certain gift taxes.
2021 and Beyond: Key Tax Impacts from the Biden Administration to Consider
It’s a new year with a new administration and President Joe Biden has proposed many changes that could impact your taxes. We have pulled a few of the key features from Biden’s proposals that we feel are important for you to review and think about how these proposed changes might affect your financial strategy.
Video FAQ: Should I Own Bitcoin in My Retirement Accounts
This video FAQ discusses the potential reasons that you may want to include Bitcoin in yourretirement accounts, and why you may not.
Video FAQ: Selling the House After a Spouse Passes Away
In this video FAQ, we answer the question, “how long do I have to sell my house after my spouse passes away in order to avoid capital gains?
Video FAQ: How Do You Measure Risk Tolerance for Investments?
In this video FAQ, we discuss two approaches for evaluating and managing risk tolerance.
Video FAQ: Do I Need an Immediate Annuity?
This week's question is, "do I need an immediate annuity?" And, the answer is that it depends on how much risk you want to take on, what your time horizon is, and what your other assets are.
Tax Planning for People with Concentrated Positions
In this post, we’ll explain more about what a concentrated position is, the impact it can have on your finances, and the best ways to manage your taxes when you’re trying to reduce your position.
Video FAQ: Retirement Emergency Funds & Cash Reserves
When it comes to emergency funds, how much is the right amount? In this video, we look at two different scenarios that would affect the amount of cash reserves that you would want on hand during retirement.
The History of Taxation in the US
If you’ve ever been curious about how much money you’re paying in taxes relative to what other past generations were charged, then you might be surprised to learn just how much they’ve fluctuated over the past century. Here’s a brief overview of the history of taxation in the U.S. and why the rates have changed over the decades.
How are Investments Taxed (and How Can I Minimize Them)?
While many people tend to focus on how much money their investments will produce for them, it can be equally as important to understand how the IRS will tax this income. In this post, we’ll explore the tax treatments on interest, capital gains, and dividends, and then discuss how you can use this knowledge to your advantage.