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  • Do You Know How Much Your Other Half Makes?

    Study: Four out of 10 Couples in the U.S. Could Not Correctly Identify How Much Their Spouse Earns Experts often tell us “never keep secrets in a relationship” and “the key to any successful relationship is open communication.” So why is it, according to Fidelity Investments fifth Couples Retirement Study, four out of ten (43%)…

  • S&P 500 Foreign Sales Report

    NEW YORK, July 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — S&P Dow Jones Indices (“S&P DJI”), one of the world’s leading index providers, announced today that, for S&P 500® companies with full reporting information for 2014, the percentage of sales from foreign countries increased after five years of stagnation. According to S&P DJI’s annual S&P 500 Foreign Sales Report,…

  • Who Controls Your Retirement Funds: You Or The Government?

    Qualified Money For Retirement Has Strings Attached People make a mistake when they feel as though they’ve lost control of their qualified retirement plans – they never had control in the first place, says retirement advisor Mark Cardoza. “Qualified retirement funds – whether we’re talking about an IRA, 401(k), Contributory or Defined Benefit Pension Plan,…

  • Is Your Financial Advisor Missing Something?

    6 Missteps by a Financial Advisor That May Be Costing You There are plenty of good folks serving as financial advisors, says Mark Roberts, ChFC, FIC, who has worked in the industry for more than two decades. “Many of my colleagues form pleasant relationships with their clients and seem to really care about the client-advisor…

  • Offshore Succession Planning for American’s

    Issue: ”Sovereign Trust – new short form trust structures which present a cost effective succession planning tool with which to hold investments” Faults: Sovereign Trust – succession planning tool U.S. Tax System is Hostile to Offshore Trusts The U.S. tax system is generally hostile to foreign trusts if there is a U.S. taxpayer involved. The…

  • Ladies: How Money Wise Are You?

    Investment Advisor Seeks To Debunk Myths About Women And Money It’s a perplexing situation. Women control half of the wealth in the United States, yet studies have shown that many of them are convinced they are lacking when it comes to understanding finances. Too often, in their eyes they aren’t capable of making prudent investment…

  • Paradise Found! For the Sale of a Capital Asset

    Paradise Found! – The Use of PPLI Planning in Income Realization Planning in the Sale of a Capital Asset I was at the PPLI conference in Boston a week and a half ago. Usually it is the same group of people saying the same things. However, this year was a little different. I have lived…

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