Senior Associate Michael Griffin, CFP®, and Associate Logan Daniel, CFP®, CRPC®, join Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, to advise a couple who want to begin gifting their wealth to their nieces and nephews. With a wide range of ages and situations, the planners provide ways to make the most of their generous gifts.
You might think celebrities have it all—they usually have cars, homes, jewels, and abundant wealth. However, many are missing a critical component: an estate plan.
Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, is joined by Managing Associate Jarrett McKenzie, CFP®, CWS®, and Senior Financial Planner Clay Norman, CFP®, to discuss an investor who wishes to leave his IRA to his granddaughter. They discuss the limitations the SECURE Act created for non-spousal inherited IRAs and other options that may benefit the heir.
Married taxpayers have a special benefit that allows a surviving spouse to make what is called a portability election, allowing the surviving spouse to add the deceased spouse’s unused estate tax exclusion to their own.
Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, is joined by Senior Financial Planner Giuliana Barbagelata, CFP®, to discuss what aspects to consider when developing an estate plan for a second marriage that involves children from a previous marriage. While it requires an estate planning attorney to prepare the wills and trusts, the experts discuss all the groundwork financial planners put into making an estate plan work.
If you sell an asset you purchased, you will likely have to pay taxes on the gain. However, if you sell an asset you inherited, any gain may receive a beneficial tax treatment.
This week on “Money Talks,” Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, Managing Associate Jarrett McKenzie, CFP®, CWS®, and Giuliana Barbagelata, CFP®, discuss a situation where an investor never designated a beneficiary for his IRA, and now his heir must deal with the estate.
Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, is joined by Managing Associate D.J. Barker, CWS® and Associate Logan Daniel, CFP®, CRPC®, to discuss the use and benefits of trusts in estate planning, and how they work with the client to determine the ultimate goal for passing on their wealth.
If you are fortunate to have a large estate, you can make gifts without reducing your lifetime exclusion, including an annual gift exclusion and paying for medical or educational expense directly to the provider.
Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, is joined by Managing Associate D.J. Barker, CWS®, and Senior Financial Planner Josh Weidie, CWS®, to discuss a common fallacy among investors—that they can rely on an inheritance to fund their retirement. They discuss the average inheritance and some of the many ways an it could be significantly reduced before passing to the heirs.
