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A Wall Around Your Wealth: The Importance of Asset Protection
KEY TAKEAWAYS ■ Asset protection strategies are designed to deter lawsuits and safeguard your assets.■ Far too many successful business owners don’t have an asset protection plan in place.■ Start with the basics, such as umbrella policies, and build from there...
December Market and Economic Update
This blog will serve as follow up to our previously released Q4 Investment Themes and is intended to provide an update on what we are seeing as well as our current outlook. Here are the top three things we are covering in this week’s blog: The market...
December Market and Economic Update
Finding the Right Wealth Manager for You
Key Takeaways: A wealth manager must be scrupulously honest.Technical expertise must be demonstrated.Does the wealth manager have experience working with people like you? It can be quite a task to evaluate the expertise and experience of a wealth manager before you...
Advance Your Wealth – Finding the Right Wealth Manager
https://youtu.be/CvBbKgEEKGk
The Many Benefits of Building a Family Brand
KEY TAKEAWAYS You can define what your family stands for and cares about—or you can allow the world to do it.When families are clear and intentional about their values, they can potentially become more connected and even more financially successful.Culture, language...
November Market & Economic Update
November Market & Economic Update – Market Slides on Concerns on Another Economic Shutdown
This blog will serve as follow up to our previously released Q4 Investment Themes and is intended to provide an update on what we are seeing as well as our current outlook. Here are the top three things we are covering in this week’s blog: The market fell across...
Can Asset Protection Strategies Help Shield Your Wealth?
KEY TAKEAWAYS Asset protection planning seeks to stop lawsuits from happening in the first place by making it hard for creditors to get at wealth. Transparency is crucial to effective asset protection planning. A multipronged approach with plenty of flexibility can...
Advance Your Wealth – Succession Planning for Family Businesses
Succession Planning for Family Businesses
KEY TAKEAWAYS Effective succession planning results in a technically successful transfer of the family business and mitigates family dissent.Issues of taxes, leadership competency and family relationships should be factors in a succession plan.Agreements and plans...
What Is Wealth Planning, Really?
KEY TAKEAWAYS Wealth planning looks beyond the basics of investments to examine your larger financial picture.Trusts, partnerships and life insurance are three strategies that often are used as part of an overall wealth planning effort.True wealth planning also...
Big Wealth Mistakes the Super Rich Don’t Make
No one is perfect—not even the smartest or most famous among us. But some people veer closer to perfection than others. Take the self-made Super Rich—a group we define as those with a net worth of $500 million or more that they earned through efforts such as starting...
October Market & Economic Update
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October Market & Economic Update – Market Recoups Previous Losses on the Back of Big Cap Tech Leadership
This blog will serve as follow up to our previously released Q4 Investment Themes and is intended to provide an update on what we are seeing as well as our current outlook. Here are the top three things we are covering in this week’s blog: The market jumped...
Advance Your Wealth – A Charitable Planning Primer
A Charitable Planning Primer
KEY TAKEAWAYS Charitable planning is philanthropy that reflects a larger financial or estate plan.Charitable giving options range from the basic (wills) to the advanced (private foundations).Getting a second opinion about your current giving strategies can make sense....
Washington Long Term Care Exemption Steps
To complete the process of exemption from the long term care tax implemented by Washington state you will need to apply for the exemption through secureaccess.wa.gov. To do so you will need to go through the following steps: Log into your secureaccess.wa.gov account...
Q4 Quarterly Investment Themes Video
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Q4 Quarterly Investment Themes Blog
This blog will serve as follow up to our previously released Q3 Investment Themes and is intended to provide an update on what we are seeing as well as our current outlook. Here are the top three things we are covering in this week’s blog: The market...
Advance Your Wealth – Tax Law Changes Coming
https://youtu.be/mEIWDIWd8cE
President Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ Agenda / American Families Plan Tax Proposal – What you need to know!
Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee released legislative text for proposed tax changes Monday, September 13. This proposal will raise tax rates for corporations and high-income earners as well as make changes to the Internal...
Advance Your Wealth – Episode 11 – Do You Have What it Takes to Create Significant Wealth
https://youtu.be/sBpVxtfJf3s
Do you have what it takes to create significant wealth?
KEY TAKEAWAYS A commitment to achieving great results is crucial.A strong business model must be in place.The right team - including a wealth manager - is essential. As a business owner, you’re probably well aware that entrepreneurship is one of the best ways—perhaps...