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Advising the 60+ Investor
Advising the 60+ Investor offers tax and financial planners an authoritative resource for the financial concerns of those who have retired or are about to retire. Drawing on the combined expertise of tax, finance, and accounting professionals, this book makes it easier for financial advisors to present their clients with a full range of planning strategies and to provide practical advice custom tailored to their clients' individual circumstances. An abundance of detailed, real-world examples illustrate many of the most common financial situations faced by older investors, and handy computation aids and data tables make calculations clear, quick, and straightforward.
Family
Why do some families thrive for generations? What accounts for the sad deterioration that others experience? This book takes families and the professionals who serve them beyond the now widely accepted practices offered in Family Wealth and offers a view of Hughes's panoramic insights into what makes families flourish and fail. It lays out the basis for the vision of family governance the author has been developing through his work and research. His advice addresses not only what to do but how to think about the complex issues of family governance, growth, and stability and the ongoing challenge of nurturing the happiness of each family member.
Advising Entrepreneurs
This valuable book helps financial advisors address the needs of their entrepreneurial clients. Most people opening their own businesses are experts in their fields. But when it comes to the vital intricacies of running a successful business, many entrepreneurs find themselves struggling to survive.With more and more people starting their own small businesses, a growing need has developed for expert guidance to help today's entrepreneurs face their new legal, tax, and financial challenges. Advising Entrepreneurs helps financial advisors address the special needs of their entrepreneurial clients. It provides a comprehensive approach to growing wealth, shielding business assets from liabilities, lowering taxes, and much more by promoting prudent risk-taking. Marc Lane (Chicago, IL) is a business and tax attorney. He is a Master Registered Financial Planner, Registered Financial Consultant, and Certified Investment Specialist. He has authored thirty books, is an Adjunct Professor of Business at the University of Illinois College of Business Administration's Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Northwestern University.
Acting Badly
As in the lives of people we all know, this story presents a dozen fictional Santa Feans trying to love, yet mistreating, each other the week before US forces invade Iraq. “The aggression that dominates American life today,” says author Michael Scofield, “goads them into brandishing their dark sides.” Married realtor Maxine Morgan, for instance, coaxes conservative mortgage broker Ron Kirkpatrick (and others) into bed. Ron’s not-quite-yet-psychotic wife Lila tries to seduce handyman Victor Valdez. High-tech writer Manny Barnes falsely promises his fiancée to give up in-your-face activism. CPA Chuck Ridley leaves his family for Silicon Valley CEO Bret, who changes his mind about wa...
The Small-Mart Revolution
Defenders of massive multinational chains like Wal-Mart and Fortune 500 big business argue that, like it or not, there is no alternative. Their huge scale and international reach, they claim, make them more efficient and profitable, better able to deliver value, and an uncontested boon for the job market. According to the big boys, locally owned small businesses are simply quaint remnants of the past, unable to compete in the global economy. But in The Small-Mart Revolution, Michael Shuman shows that the benefits these mega-stores and huge corporations supposedly deliver to communities are illusory. Crunch the numbers and you'll find that locally owned businesses turn out to be much more rel...
Keeping Clients for Life
A successful financial planner is someone who does more than just crunch numbers and present an annual investment plan to clients. There is a psychological component to effective client care as well as to issues involving clients' overall financial well-being. People skills, as well as financial planning skills, are necessary to build a successful financial planning business. This comprehensive guide teaches both new and veteran financial professionals how to relate to their clients in meaningful ways, thus growing their business by increasing the long-term retention of those clients. Offered here are insights into such issues as how to determine which clients to accept, how to propose a plan clients can use, how to tread carefully in family situations, how to develop sensitivity and communications skills, and how to work with the media and recognize the importance of building your business one lasting relationship at a time. Karen Caplan Altfest, PhD, CFP (New York, NY), is Vice President of L. J. Altfest & Co., a financial planning and investment management firm. She is also the Director of the Financial Planning and Investments Program at the New School.
Tax-Smart Investing
In Tax-Smart Investing, you'll find an invaluable ally to help you guide your clients through the minefield of tax consequences of a wide range of investment vehicles. Investment professionals Andrew Westhem and Stewart Weissman reveal the tax traps that can snare the unwary - and describe the sophisticated tactics they have developed to elude those traps. Written in a clear, straightforward style and packed with practical examples, Tax-Smart Investing is an indispensable guide for investment advisors, financial planners, accountants, and attorneys.
Estate and Business Succession Planning
Written by two attorneys who specialize in estate planning, this book clarifies all the issues involved in planning an estate and transferring wealth. It offers comprehensive estate planning guidelines, including creating a will, designating power of attorney, trusts, and life insurance, and includes up-to-date estate and inheritance tax information.
Fee-Only Financial Planning
J.K. Lasser Pro(TM) Before You Plan, Consult J.K.Lasser Innovative Planning That Benefits Professionals and Clients What does it take to be a successful fee-only financial planner? According to John Sestina, acclaimed "father of fee-only financial planning," the only special qualifications are a genuine desire to help people, an ability to listen, and a commitment to lifelong learning. Fee-Only Financial Planning introduces financial planners to the newest, fastest-growing niche in the financial planning field-fee for service rather than commission-based planning. Fee-only planning is attractive to the growing number of clients who want to avoid the long-term payments, lack of objectivity, l...
The Inheritors Handbook
Straightforward and jargon-free, this book offers tested advice for everyone who must negotiate an inheritance. Because inheriting can be one of the most sensitive family matters, heirs will turn to Rottenberg's reassuring, dependable guidance to help them deal with the difficulties, decisions, and opportunities that arise.
