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Weekend Reading: Maximize Retirement Savings With Charitable Remainder Trusts: A 2023 Guide

If you are at all charitable-minded, you should leverage the variety of options available to maximize your tax deductions, allowing you to be even more generous with your wealth.

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Weekend Reading: Don’t Overlook Post-Retirement Roth Conversion Benefits

You often hear of the benefits of Roth conversions during your working years, but when carried out during retirement, they can also help you enhance your income options, manage tax situations and support your estate planning goals.

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Weekend Reading: 4 Key Questions in Estate Planning

No matter your asset size, estate planning is vital if you have specific wishes in regard to the passing of your wealth and possessions.

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Weekend Reading: Why a Roth Conversion Is a Powerful Estate Planning Tool

If you’re looking to minimize taxes for your beneficiaries down the road, a Roth conversion is worth consideration.

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Weekend Reading: Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid in Retirement Account Planning

When you pass away, the fate of your retirement accounts like a 401(k) or Roth IRA depends on the beneficiaries you designate. This is why matters of your estate hold a place in our Retire With Purpose planning framework.

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Weekend Reading: Debunking the Top 10 Estate Planning Myths

You need an estate plan. Regardless of your net worth or financial situation, an estate plan provides peace of mind that your assets will be distributed according to your wishes upon your passing.

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Weekend Reading: 3 Tax-Smart Charitable Giving Strategies You Can Use Any Time of Year

You often hear of charitable giving as an end-of-year tax planning move; however, this isn’t always the ideal time from a tax perspective for you, nor does it most effectively serve the organization(s) you support.

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Weekend Reading: 10 Estate Planning Documents You Need

What’s one way you can help care for loved ones when you’re no longer around? Eliminate uncertainty around your estate, possessions and end-of-life care with a thoroughly-crafted estate plan.

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Weekend Reading: Should You Die with Zero?

One of the top financial concerns of today’s retirees is having enough income to last a lifetime; however, recent studies show there’s also another issue at bay: Leaving behind too much of that income.

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Weekend Reading: Maximizing the Step-Up in Basis by Gifting Assets Between Spouses

Presently, taxpayers have a roughly $12 million estate exemption per person. As such, a step-up in basis strategy can be utilized to help minimize capital gains taxes upon the sale of those appreciated assets.

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Weekend Reading: The Ethical Will or Family Love Letter: How to Transfer More Than Money to Future Generations

Your legacy plan has the capability to go far beyond tangible materials and wealth assets.

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Weekend Reading: 5 Tax-Efficient Wealth Transfer Strategies to Consider Before 2026

A constant that has remained within proposed tax bills from the Biden administration is that most changes will impact the wealthy, so now is the time to consider if – and how – estate tax liability could impact your beneficiaries.