Expert Articles


Dec
2024

Unlock the Full Potential of Your Business with Strategic Partnerships

At some point in your business ownership journey, you’ll reach a point when you need to consider life after the business. Getting the most out of your life’s work will take a team of financial experts assembled years in advance. These are some of the key steps you should take to build your business exit planning team to reap the full benefits you deserve.

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Nov
2024

The Benefits of a Delaware Statutory Trust for Real Estate Investments

A Delaware Statutory Trust is a legal structure that allows investors to hold fractional ownership in a portfolio of real estate instead of investing in an outright purchase of a single property. Beyond the deferral of capital gains taxes, there are many advantages of using a DST for a 1031 exchange. Here are five of the most advantageous benefits for investors.

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Jun
2024

Are You Prepared for the 2025 Sunset of Estate Tax Exemption Limits?

At the end of the year 2025, the estate tax exemption limits expanded by 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act are set to expire. If Congress allows that to happen, lifetime exemption amounts will effectively be cut in half. These are the implications high-net-worth individuals should understand and the preparations that should be taken for the potential sunsetting of this current benefit.

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Mar
2024

What's Causing Chaos in Homeowners' Insurance?

In recent months, we've had many conversations with clients regarding current factors impacting their wealth. A frequent recurring topic has revolved around recent changes in homeowners' insurance. To shine a bit more light on the subject, we sat down with insurance expert, Hanna Ogle, to share her insights on the subject.

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Mar
2024

The Role of Insurance in Estate Planning

Estate planning is a crucial part of ensuring your assets are managed and distributed as per your wishes after your passing. One element of that planning is often insurance. While insurance can play a significant role in a good estate plan, it's also important to recognize when it may not be needed.

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Oct
2023

Avoiding Financial Strategy Collision Course

It's very common for wealthy people to have multiple investments working congruently, and we all want financial strategies that maximize wealth and defer taxes as effectively as possible. However, if you aren't careful and fully consider each investment in both the near-term and long-term, you create colliding strategies that result in concentrated tax consequences in a small window of time. Here are 3 common missteps and how to avoid them.

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Oct
2023

Building Wealth Management Relationships for Family

More often than not, wealth management extends beyond an individual. When selecting a wealth manager, it's important to look for a relationship that supports your financial goals and your family's goals. Such relationship-building should be instrumental to your wealth manager's approach to serving you and your family. This article addresses the reasons why, and some of the benefits you can look to gain.

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Jun
2023

What Does it Mean to Invest as an Accredited Investor or Qualified Purchaser?

As public markets become more volatile, wealth managers look to more specialized investment vehicles and strategies to broaden portfolio allocation to potentially improve returns. These strategies can often only be offered to investors considered an Accredited Investor or Qualified Purchaser. Here's what those terms mean and how they differ.

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