Six Keys to Investing
Apr 2, 2025
A successful investor maximizes gain and minimizes loss. Though there can be no guarantee that any investment strategy will be successful and all investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal, here are six basic principles that may help you invest more successfully.Tags: Certified Financial Planner Charlotte NC, Family Wealth, Investing, Investment Planning, Investment Portfolio, Investments
Organizing Your Finances When Your Spouse Has Passed
Mar 31, 2025
Losing a spouse is a stressful transition. And the added pressure of having to settle the estate and organize finances can be overwhelming. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to make dealing with these matters less difficult.Tags: Certified Financial Advisor Charlotte NC, Certified Financial Planner Charlotte NC, charlotte NC, Estate Planning, Family Wealth, financial advisor, Financial Planner Charlotte NC, Financial Planning, Legacy
Retirement and Adult Children
Mar 28, 2025
Families are one of the great joys in life, and part of the love you show to your family is making sure that their basic needs are met. While that’s only to be expected from birth through the high school years, many households are helping their adult children well into their twenties and beyond at the cost of their own retirement savings. (more…)
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Asset Protection in Estate Planning
Mar 21, 2025
You’re beginning to accumulate substantial wealth, but you worry about protecting it from future potential creditors. Whether your concern is for your personal assets or your business, various tools exist to keep your property safe from tax collectors, accident victims, health-care providers, credit card issuers, business creditors, and creditors of others.
To insulate your property from such claims, you’ll have to evaluate each tool in terms of your own situation. You may decide that insurance and a Declaration of Homestead may be sufficient protection for your home because your exposure to a claim is low. For high exposure, you may want to create a business entity or an offshore trust to shield your assets. Remember, no asset protection tool is guaranteed to work, and you may have to adjust your asset protection strategies as your situation or the laws change.
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Basis: Carryover or Stepped-Up Cost Basis?
Mar 17, 2025
Income tax basis can be an important factor in deciding whether to make gifts during your lifetime or transfer property at your death. This is because the income tax basis for the person receiving the property depends on whether the transfer is by gift or at death. This, in turn, affects the amount of taxable gain subject to income tax when the person sells the property.
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Wills: The Cornerstone of Your Estate Plan
Feb 10, 2025
If you care about what happens to your money, home, and other property after you die, you need to do some estate planning. There are many tools you can use to achieve your estate planning goals, but a will is probably the most vital. Even if you’re young or your estate is modest, you should always have a legally valid and up-to-date will. This is especially important if you have minor children because, in many states, your will is the only legal way you can name a guardian for them. Although a will doesn’t have to be drafted by an attorney to be valid, seeking an attorney’s help can ensure that your will accomplishes what you intend.Tags: Certified Financial Advisor Charlotte NC, Certified Financial Planner Charlotte NC, Estate Planning, Family Wealth, financial advisor
Tax Planning for Income
Jan 24, 2025
You don’t want to pay more in federal income tax than you have to. As you begin to gather your tax documents for this year, here are five things to consider when it comes to keeping more of your income.Tags: Certified Financial Planner Charlotte NC, Family Wealth, financial advisor charlotte nc, Retirement Tax Savings, Tax Deductions, Tax Planning, taxes
Explaining the Basis of Inherited Real Estate
Dec 9, 2024
At some point in our lives, we may inherit a home or another form of real property. In such instances, we need to understand some of the jargon involving inherited real estate. What does “cost basis” mean? What is a “step-up?” What is the home sale tax exclusion, and what kind of tax break does it offer? (more…)
Tags: Estate Planning, Family Wealth, Tax Advantages, taxes, Wealth Building
Life Insurance and Estate Planning
Oct 28, 2024
Life insurance has come a long way since the days when it was known as burial insurance and used mainly to pay for funeral expenses. Today, life insurance is a crucial part of many estate plans. You can use it to leave much-needed income to your survivors, provide for your children’s education, pay off your mortgage, and simplify the transfer of assets. Life insurance can also be used to replace wealth lost due to the expenses and taxes that may follow your death, and to make gifts to charity at relatively little cost to you.Tags: Certified Financial Planner Charlotte NC, Estate Planning, Family Wealth, financial advisor charlotte nc, Insurance, Legacy, Retirement Planning
Charitable Lead Trusts
Sep 25, 2024
Are you concerned about the inheritance taxes your heirs may have to pay? Then you may want to consider creating charitable lead trusts. (more…)
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More Insights
Jun 9, 2025
You’re beginning to accumulate substantial wealth, but you worry about protecting it from future potential creditors. Whether your concern is for your personal assets or your business, various tools exist to keep your property safe from tax collectors, accident victims, health-care providers, credit card issuers, business creditors, and creditors of others. To insulate your property … Continue reading “Estate Planning – Protecting Your Assets”
Jun 6, 2025
You know how important it is to plan for your retirement, but where do you begin? One of your first steps should be to estimate how much income you’ll need to fund your retirement. That’s not as easy as it sounds, because retirement planning is not an exact science. Your specific needs depend on your … Continue reading “Estimating Your Retirement Income Needs”
Jun 4, 2025
As June begins, markets continue to navigate a complex landscape shaped by trade policy shifts, an uncertain economic and earnings outlook, and bond market headwinds. Several key developments in recent weeks may have implications for markets:
Apr 4, 2025
April showers came a month early as stocks fell in March. Tariffs were the primary cause of the market jitters, although that uncertainty became too much for markets to shrug off once economic data started to weaken.
Apr 2, 2025
A successful investor maximizes gain and minimizes loss. Though there can be no guarantee that any investment strategy will be successful and all investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal, here are six basic principles that may help you invest more successfully.
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