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Carolyn DeVore of Pullman & Comley, LLC, in Westport, Conn., reports: The United States and France ratified significant protocols to their income tax and estate tax treaties on Dec. 21, 2006. The income tax protocol allows a U.S. citizen working...
Sometimes you are guilty as charged caught with your arm in the cookie jar and that's it. Sure, you have excuses and rationalizations, but no NASD or NYSE hearing panel is likely to believe them.
A colleague of mine recently left our firm and the business, asking me to take care of a few of his clients. One client about whom he was concerned happens to be his cousin. My colleague was new to the business, and his manager handled setting up...
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Jan. 24 approved a new code of procedures that govern arbitrations at the NASD Dispute Resolution. The changes were a long time coming: Some of them have been sitting at the SEC since 2003.
Baby boomers are hunkering down for retirement. They are putting computer to spreadsheet, as it were, and running asset and cash flow projections, with frequent stops in Monte Carlo. And after they factor in commonly suggested assumptions about...
The Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA), which so radically redefined the rules for supporting organizations, also transformed the rules for donor-advised funds (DAFs). The PPA for the first time accords DAFs express recognition in the Internal...
Distributable net income (DNI) has long been a complicated concept for fiduciaries, who in making distributions must consider the income tax consequences to both the trust or estate and its beneficiaries. When fiduciaries also must contend with...