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Can wealthy families do more?

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Centuries ago, the future rested in the hands of the gods, and only oracles and priests were able to interpret what man was allowed to see. Then, as Renaissance thinkers began to identify and measure cause, effect and probability, society relied less on fate and faith and more on knowledge and prediction.1 Today, we confront the future with the power of technology, reducing risk and gaining insight through predictive mathematics and, to a lesser extent, qualitative judgment. It’s not just next week’s weather report; it’s election polls, petroleum demand and the discreet 10-year revenue effect of a specific Tax Code change. Google even created a system based on cold math and two million data points to predict the future performance of jo...

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About the Authors

Donald D. Kozusko

Partner, Kozusko Harris Vetter Wareh Duncan LLP

Miles C. Padgett

Partner

http://www.kozlaw.com/

Miles has assisted clients in planning for their estates, varying in value from $10 million to over $4 billion and consisting of assets such as commercial real estate holdings, closely-held stock, non-qualified compensation, well-known art work, and high-value scenic real estate.  Miles has also assisted clients in establishing private trust companies (and other private fiduciary companies) for complex families and trust networks to create user-friendly and family goal-specific organizations.  


Miles writes and speaks on a wide variety of tax and wealth management topics.  

Miles was a founding member of the firm Kozusko Harris Vetter Wareh Duncan LLP, and resigned from the partnership in 2004 to join the financial services community.  After spending over 5 years as an investment consultant with Convergent Wealth Advisors, where he was a director in its Investment Strategy Group focusing on asset allocation and manager search and selection, Miles re-joined the firm as a partner in December 2009.

Miles earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, with distinction, from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor degree from Vanderbilt University, where he was a member of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law.  In addition to being a lawyer, Miles holds the Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®) designation, from the Investment Management Consultants Association in conjunction with the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.