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Bob Morrison was working up a comprehensive financial plan last year for new clients when he began noticing some odd behavior. Morrison, a planner based in Littleton, Colo., had been working with the couple—a 64-year-old man and his 52-year-old...
Charlotte Beyer has been a trailblazer in the wealth management business before the phrase “wealth management” was even being used.
In 1991, the then 43-year-old financial services executive founded the Institute for Private Investors as a peer...
An in-plan Roth rollover (IPRR) is effective for distributions from Internal Revenue Code Section 401(k) plans and IRC Section 403(b) plans made after Sept. 27, 2010 and for distributions from IRC Section 457(b) plans for taxable years beginning...
We've all done just that, probably more often than we should admit. On the way to getting started with a new social media or online service, most of us didn't actually read the terms of service. Have you ever stopped to consider what...
In the past few months, we've witnessed political and economic events that are unprecedented in recent memory. The debt crisis and ensuing investment market fluctuations, record low interest rates that we've been assured are unlikely to...
Until just a few years ago, an estate executor on the hunt for important documents might find them in a filing cabinet at a decedent's home or in a safety deposit box at a bank. But now, with powerful computers and easy access to the Internet, a...
Individual retirement accounts have long been treated as the proverbial red-headed stepchild of estate planning. Until recently, they were often overlooked, dismissed or disregarded when estate planning was undertaken. But with upwards of $14...
Once upon a time, estate planners focused almost exclusively on the federal tax implications of their planning for clients. State1 death taxes, which were simple by comparison, didn't merit similar concern. In the past decade, however, tax law...
Perhaps it's a matter of managing expectations and responsibilities between attorneys and clients about who will have the ongoing responsibility to ensure that various technical requirements and administrative details of an estate-planning...
