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There are plenty of generous grandparents out there who would love to help their grandchildren with their college costs. While that’s a wonderful instinct, the last thing that parents want is for grandma and grandpa’s generosity to...
As more wealth managers and multi-family offices outsource their investment decisions to third party asset managers, these assets managers are coming under greater scrutiny—and not just for their investment performance...
Fee-only advisors have a significant opportunity to go into the retirement planning business, said Gary Allen, a principal at Prudent Investor Advisors, an RIA specializing in retirement plans. During NAPFA’s annual conference in Salt Lake...
Despite Congress’ eleventh-hour move in December to head off sharply higher estate taxes, confusion remains over the future of the levies. The tax revisions lawmakers made at the end of last year set a maximum rate of 35 percent with a $5...
Multi-family offices have a tantalizing window of opportunity to meet a surge of demand by wealthy families looking for a primary provider of investment, planning and administrative services, according to Jamie McLaughlin, a veteran industry...
Larry Swedroe calls it the Holy Grail—the search for managers who can deliver returns that beat the appropriate risk-adjusted benchmarks. And it’s “a fool’s errand,” he adds; he spends much of his new book, The Quest for Alpha (John Wiley & Sons)...