Category: Asset Protection
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Experts Prove Most Financial Advisors Aren’t Giving the Best Retirement Advice
[box]William Reichenstein and William Meyer, founders of Retiree Income, share their research on where financial advisors go wrong with their retirement advice.[/box] LEAWOOD, Kan., April 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — In their article “How to Beat the Conventional Wisdom: Part 1” published in Financial Advisor Magazine, retirement planning experts William Reichenstein, PhD, Principal, Retiree Income, and William…
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Trust Builders Expands Online Retirement Readiness Solutions for Financial Advisors
DALLAS, Ore., April 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Trust Builders, Inc. is announcing the release of the Maximum Allowable Contribution (MAC) module for the TRAK-Online retirement readiness portal. The MAC module allows advisors to calculate the maximum annual contribution to a 403(b) account and a 457 account, including the 402(g)(7) limit and double-up options. “Helping advisors…
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The Walking Dead – Using Private Placement Variable Deferred Annuity Contracts to Enhance the Investment Return in Life Settlement Contracts
I have always been a film fan. Growing up in the Panama Canal Zone, one of my Mother’s jobs for the Panama Canal Company was serving as the manager of the Balboa Theater. We used to watch initial screenings of movies together on the Big Screen as a private viewing while eating lunch from the…
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Anti-FATCA lawyer rejects Europe threat to US taxpayers
Sanctions unlikely, lobbyist says The leading advocate for repeal of the U.S. Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act has called “laughable” any attempt to sanction Washington – should it rescind FATCA – for noncompliance with copycat European tax laws. Washington-based anti-FATCA tax-lawyer and lobbyist James Jatras said European efforts to pinpoint U.S. taxpayers through the Organization…
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Transamerica Institute Announces “Improving Women’s Retirement Security”
Women face unique challenges and circumstances that put them at an even greater risk of not achieving a financially secure retirement, compared to men. A special one-hour edition of ClearPath – Your Roadmap to Health & Wealth will offer insights into the particular risks women face and clear-cut steps they can take to improve their…
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Personal Capital Publishes Investment Tax Guide
[box size=”large”]CEO Bill Harris Offers Complimentary Copies Until April 15[/box] Just in time for tax season, today Personal Capital published a comprehensive book on how to minimize taxes on your investments. Congress created numerous tax breaks for families saving for retirement – this book shows you how to use them. “It’s not what you make…
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Her Majesty’s Overview of the Offshore Investment Market
Despite the term ‘offshore investment’ being widely used in policy and political discourse to describe the investment of capital outside an investor’s jurisdiction of residence, representatives of banks were keen to point out that it is a very broad term open to different interpretations. Indeed, during many of the qualitative interviews conducted with representatives of…
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Corporatize your Offshore Capital Structure
[box]AML & KYC are the first issues for consideration, when planning an Offshore Capital Structure.[/box] The best course of action to ring-fence liability, is this ORS/402(b) program. FATCA and the Automatic Exchange of Financial Information reporting rules are enforced now. The PRC has the same rules about foreign financial account reporting as does the USA.…