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Financial Planning October 1, 2010 Mindel & Sleight |
The Family Way Transferring a family business is a legal, financial and emotional tangle. Here are some strategies to help clients do it right. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2015 Mary Stark-Hood |
Succession Planning According to a 2014 Financial Planning Association Survey, the greatest financial challenge facing small business owners is developing a retirement plan and exit strategy. |
Financial Advisor April 2005 Gregory Bresiger |
Selling A Home To A Child Convince a client nearing retirement to stay in a primary residence in a booming real estate market, delaying the move to the Sunbelt for a few years. Have the client sell the home to a child. It could help the client and a child under certain circumstances. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2005 Mitchell Rose |
Emotional Rescue By tending to family dynamics during the estate planning process, financial advisers can prevent wounds and conflicts years before they might occur. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2013 Ingrid Case |
New Rules for Real Estate Investing Real estate investing is not for everyone - but for interested clients, a good planner can make all the difference. |
Financial Advisor March 2011 Caren Chesler |
Homeward Bound In a tough economic environment, some clients must deal with their children moving back home. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2011 Suzanne McGee |
Full-Nest Syndrome Even when a financial advisor is able and willing to work with clients on containing and managing requests for financial help from their boomerang children, they can end up squarely in the middle of one of the most perilous kinds of disagreements: family squabbles over money. |
Registered Rep. June 17, 2013 Kevin McKinley |
The Power of Persuasion These small acts for clients' children and grandchildren can make a big difference. |
Investment Advisor January 2009 Lewis Schiff |
What to Do with the Family Business If your client sells their business, would their children be in a better financial and personal position without the additional role of small business owner? |
Investment Advisor October 2007 Olivia Mellan |
Brother and Sister, Where Art Thou? Some financial advisors think kids from the same family should all get along great. But that is not so. Siblings may share chromosomes, but often have completely different money personalities. |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2006 Anne Field |
Creepy Conversations Holding onto clients' assets after their death isn't easy. The only effective way to do it is to establish a relationship with the clients' offspring. Here's how. |
CFO February 1, 2007 Chuck Jaffe |
The Other Facts of Life One of the simplest ways to introduce the subject of fiscal responsibility is to demonstrate the power of savings to younger children by setting up a matching account for them. |
Financial Advisor August 2005 Karen DeMasters |
A Taste Of The City As a founding partner in the financial planning firm of Budros, Ruhlin & Roe in Columbus, Ohio, Budros cooked as a hobby most of his life and then got into competitive barbecuing that involved road trips with friends to the barbecue capitals of the country. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2006 Cal Brown |
Legacy Planning Clients want to pass on more than money to their heirs. Once legacy planning is complete, there are many benefits for clients, their children and the planner. |
Financial Planning October 2, 2007 Donald Jay Korn |
Home Relief Lofty housing prices and tight credit are sending young people to the Bank of Mom and Dad. Should your clients open the discount window? |
Financial Advisor December 2004 Gregory Bresiger |
Your Next Client May be a Child Financial relationships that took an advisor years to build can be quickly ruined by a young person's recklessness with money. That's why it is often critical for advisors to know the children of their clients. |
U.S. Banker February 2007 Karen Krebsbach |
'Once Upon a Time, There Was a Very Rich Family...' Wealth managers can be instrumental in helping parents teach their children about the value of money-and managing for optimum portfolio longevity. The key? Starting early. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 Mark Feffer |
The Family Lock Box Retirement planning is all about identifying the client's desired retirement lifestyle, then translating that into savings and investment goals. But increasingly, family crises, and the emotions that go with them, are disrupting these well-laid plans. |
Financial Advisor March 2011 Jerilyn Klein Bier |
Special Consideration Advisors help parents of special needs children tackle unique planning challenges. |
Investment Advisor August 2007 Kara P. Stapleton |
Tassel Hassle A hot-button issue this time of year that brings clients to advisors is funding their child's college education. Here's what advisors can do to help. |
Financial Advisor January 2012 Gail Liberman |
State Of Affairs Most clients are unaware that state death taxes can take a substantial cut of an inheritance. |
Investment Advisor January 2006 Olivia Mellan |
The Psychology of Advice: The Silent Generations A huge chunk of our nation's wealth is in the hands of baby boomers' parents. Whether you represent older parents or a grownchild, better intergenerational communication is as important to you as it is to your financial advisory clients. |
Registered Rep. April 22, 2015 Kevin McKinley |
Small Deposits Now, Big Money Later Using the right vehicle and starting as soon as possible, parents, grandparents and other concerned family members can provide a lifetime of financial security for the children they love. |
Registered Rep. January 1, 2005 Anne Field |
Poor Little Rich Kids With a horde of competitors pursuing the same market, and with statistics showing that the highly affluent trust financial advisors less than ever before, winning and retaining wealthy accounts requires delicacy, savvy and, most of all, smart marketing. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2002 Kevin McKinley |
When That Bundle of Joy Grows Up to Be a Biker Chick With a little foresight, a few strategies can allow parents to stick to the letter of the law while preventing their well-intentioned savings in a custodial account from being frittered away by someone who is an "adult" in name only. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2011 Matthew F. Erskine |
To Collect and Protect The owners thought estate planning wouldn't take much. With unique assets, things aren't always so straightforward. Owners of such assets - such as family businesses, legacy real estate and valuable art, coin and other collections - need to consider specialized risk management. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2013 Martha White |
Special Needs Clients: 'Retirement for 3' For families with a special-needs child, advisors must employ a variety of tactics. |
The Motley Fool November 13, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Give Away Your Tax Bill Starting to make gifts now can save your heirs from estate-tax pain. |
Financial Advisor February 2005 Evan Simonoff |
Taking Control Until 2001, financial advisory firm Budros, Ruhlin & Roe had everything but professional management. Now it does. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2012 Martin Shenkman |
Trust, But Verify The estate planning answer for a lot of parents is to leave inheritances in trust for the benefit of their child. But trusts vary widely, and because this is a message many clients miss, planners must reinforce the idea. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2012 Ann Marsh |
Family Feud: Review Estate Plans Annually A bitter court dispute between a father and two of his children underscores how vital it is to review estate plans annually including tax provisions. |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2007 Kevin McKinley |
Financing Tomorrow Here's why and how you should use your skills to foster money harmony between generations, and ensure a position as the family's primary financial advisor today and tomorrow. |
Registered Rep. April 10, 2012 Kevin McKinley |
Helping Clients Cut Off the Kids If you have clients stretched between supporting their older youngsters and saving for retirement, you can delicately help the parents nudge, shove, and kick the offspring out of the proverbial nest. |
Investment Advisor October 2007 Kara P. Stapleton |
The Kids Stay in the Picture Think of your financial advisory clients' children now, and they're likely to think of you later. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn |
Room and Boarders According to the latest statistics from the College Board, average housing costs in 2005 were $6,636 a year at public universities and $7,791 at private institutions. Some parents have come up with an alternative: Buy a home for their young scholars. |
Investment Advisor November 2007 Mark Tibergien |
Heirs and Omissions In planning for succession, think of your financial advising practice as a family business. If parents and children can manage through the natural conflicts, most practices have a great opportunity to last through another generation. |
Financial Advisor June 2004 Jeff Schlegel |
Special Needs Planning Requires Pioneering Spirit There isn't a lot of information out there to help financial professionals deal with the special needs of clients with disabled family members. |
Registered Rep. June 19, 2012 Alan Lavine |
Best Small Business Insurance Strategies Few financial advisors counsel their small business owner clients on insurance, but they should. Insurance funded by buy-sell agreements is essential for most of these clients. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2012 Ann Marsh |
15 Top Tax Strategies For 2012 There's a one-word theme for the 2012 tax year: uncertainty. Chief among the reasons are the sky-high exemptions on the estate tax, the lifetime gift tax and the generation-skipping tax. |
ifeminists September 15, 2004 K. C. Wilson |
The Subversion of Child Support Child support in the U.S. would do better to assume no greater ambition than cover normal child costs. It would serve children better, which it is what it's supposed to do, not adult needs nor other social or economic agendas. |
Investment Advisor October 2006 Chris Blunt |
Advancing the Conversation Advisors' role in helping clients and heirs address end-of-life issues -- Behind the Numbers: 72% of parents said they would encourage their own financial advisor to discuss... etc. |
Investment Advisor December 2006 Mark Tibergien |
Trading Places Succession planning specialists say that only about one out of three family businesses successfully transfer from the first generation to the second. Although family business transfers have not been commonplace among independent financial advisors, this appears to be shifting. |
Investment Advisor December 2005 Olivia Mellan |
The Psychology of Advice: Under the Affluence When financial advisory clients come to you wondering what they should do with their money, help them identify the values and goals that are most important to them. Explore their feelings and desires on the deepest level, so you can help them move from fantasies to goals that are grounded in reality. |
Financial Advisor October 2010 Roy Diliberto |
Solutions Looking For Problems As financial life planners, we need to be watchdogs for inappropriate advice that others suggest to our clients. |
The Motley Fool June 23, 2006 Roy Lewis |
Profit From Your Children Take full advantage of the tax benefits dependents provide. Here's how. |
BusinessWeek May 31, 2004 Toddi Gutner |
Disabled -- But Financially Secure Supplemental care trusts provide for an offspring without forfeiting public aid. A look at Merrill Lynch's Special Needs Financial Services group. |
Registered Rep. September 9, 2015 David H. Lenok |
The Dangerous Allure of Incentive Trusts The allure of an incentive trust is understandable. Clients are excited about these trusts because they help assuage fears about their children not handling their inheritances responsibly. |
Investment Advisor October 2008 Olivia Mellan |
Long-Term Losses How can you cut your losses when they keep going on and on? |
Financial Planning July 1, 2010 Donald Jay Korn |
All in the Family Advisors should start talking with clients now about shifting income from higher-bracket to lower-bracket family members. Possible strategies include hiring children or even retired parents in a business, or transferring assets to these individuals. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2009 Deborah Fox |
Coming Up Short The current economic environment is putting considerable pressure on families. But if parents and their financial advisors take a proactive approach to college planning, parents and students can avoid reliance on credit markets. |