How to Prepare for College Costs Without Disrupting Your Investment Strategy
College costs can affect more than savings. Learn planning steps that help families fund education without disrupting long-term investments....
Why High-Net-Worth Families Should Review Insurance Before Summer Travel
Summer travel for affluent families often looks nothing like a long weekend at a state park. A typical itinerary might string together a Mediterranean charter, a stop at the family's second home in Aspen, and a closing leg through Tokyo or Cape Town. Each piece carries different exposures, different jurisdictions, and different gaps in the coverage you already pay for at home. That mismatch tends to surface at the worst possible...
Retirement Planning After a Liquidity Event
A successful business sale, public offering, or major equity payout converts decades of effort into a sum of cash that arrives almost overnight. Personal finances change instantly. So does tax exposure, the investment timeline, and the set of decisions a founder or executive needs to make before the calendar year closes. The window between closing day and the following April 15 carries significant weight in determining how much of the proceeds...
How 529 Plans Fit Into a Larger Wealth Transfer Strategy
Most wealthy families treat their 529 plans the way they treat their utility bills, necessary and unremarkable, set up once and rarely revisited. That mental category does the 529 a real disservice. Done with intention, this account quietly performs one of the rarer tricks in the tax code, moving meaningful wealth out of a donor's taxable estate while letting the donor keep control of the money. Tuition turns out to...