Ripped from the headlines: CEO Faces $7 Million Judgment After Son's Driving Conviction in The Financial News Daily; Businesswoman Fires Nanny, Gets Slapped With Age Discrimination Suit (for $4 million) in The Financial Herald. Both chilling...
On July 21, 2010, many single family offices watched President Obama sign into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Act).1 Title IV of the Act is the Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act of 2010...
The current economic climate and the financial upheaval of the last two years have many wealth owners taking a step back and re-evaluating the processes and resources they use to manage their wealth. They're paying more attention to the wealth...
The federal government recently has enacted several laws increasing the reporting obligations of both U.S. resident and non-resident taxpayers and imposing additional taxes and penalties on non-compliant taxpayers. But how can the Internal Revenue...
Logic dictates that valuation experts assume that cash is worth its face value in majority interest or control scenarios. And that assumption makes sense: In such instances, control of a company provides access to and control over the assets...
The recent market crisis destroyed capital, challenged bedrock tenets of economics and revealed significant limitations in standard investment management practices. But for families of significant wealth, there is a silver lining. In the long run...
The year 2009 was less than two weeks old when Congressman Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.) introduced a bill1 with the express purpose of legislatively prohibiting discounts for transfers of interests in family-owned holding companies when the underlying...
Recent declines in the real estate and credit markets provide a unique opportunity in valuations of promissory notes. At first blush, the fair market value (FMV) of promissory notes, secured or unsecured, appears to be easily determined. Treasury...
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told Congress and the nation on Sept. 10, 2009, that the credit crisis was abating. But before the market fully recovers, individuals holding hedge fund investments should consider acting fast to take maximum...