Five years after blowing up his firm in the mortgage crisis, Stanley Brooks was ordered to pay the maximum penalty of $10 million for fraud charges by a federal judge in Los Angeles.
While retail investors are exiting equity mutual funds like no other, dividend-focused mutual funds are actually reaping the benefits of investors’ search for yield.
You can’t very well tell the IRS that their check is in the mail. But a new iPad application by Fidelity Investments allows investors to make deposits into Fidelity IRAs via the Apple tablet. Taxpayers can use the iPad camera to photograph...
In this excerpt from his book Backstage Wall Street: An Insider’s Guide to Knowing Who to Trust, Who to Run From, and How to Maximize Your Investments, Joshua Brown comes clean about some of the more dangerous investment products Wall Street...
As clients, attorneys and advisors were just getting comfortable with the beneficiary defective inheritor's trust (BDIT), certain practitioners have attempted to extend its use and structure. Many of these attempted extensions, referred to in...
IRS seeks comments on tax consequences of decanting In Notice 2011-101, the Internal Revenue Service requested comments regarding the income, gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax issues and consequences arising from trust...
Since 1892, the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) has provided states with non-partisan, well-conceived and well-drafted legislation. The ULC is working on a number of issues affecting estate-planning practitioners. Here's a round-up of some of...
Sooner or later, we, as estate-planning professionals, are exposed to the frustration of clients or beneficiaries who ignore our advice and act in a manner that's financially self-destructive. Often, this situation arises in the fiduciary context...
The Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (the HIRE Act)1 of 2010, found in Internal Revenue Code Section 6038D, enacted foreign asset disclosure rules that apply to most U.S. taxpayers for the first time this tax filing season. Here's an...
