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Bet you didn’t know that there is a provision in the tax code that allows Ponzi victims to deduct 95 percent of their net investment losses the year the theft is discovered.
Time magazine in January wrote a story detailing Bush's biggest economic blunders. Of course, as popular magazines often do, Time names "tax cuts for the rich" as the third-biggest blunder. Never mind that almost all agree that Bush's tax cuts...
An important policy debate is emerging in the United States concerning how the law of succession should change to encapsulate more fully modern American families. Changing family structures and new artificial reproductive technologies1 (ART) are...
I don't have to tell you private bankers how tough it is out there. You already know that your clients don't trust you, your organizations are in even greater chaos than usual, and the pressure to bring in new business has reached a whole new...
Even in the past few years, there's been a quantum leap in the ability of modern technology tools designed to improve work group efforts and data management to help all family office stakeholders communicate and collaborate more easily and...
In business succession and estate planning involving a closely held business, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) should be one of the prime planning alternatives considered. Unfortunately, they rarely are. That's probably because ESOPs are...
Babe Ruth's biographer, the sports writer Leigh Montville, has written that the famous baseball player's early years, spent mostly in an orphanage, are covered in a fog that settles over everything and will not leave.1 This description also fits...