Art collections are unique and very personal assets. Planning to build and maintain a collection, and ensuring its future, requires balancing special rules applied to collectibles and the personal and financial realities of individuals or families. When collectors, their families, and their trusted advisors engage in purposeful planning for art collections, they will be in the best position to preserve their collections and provide for a seamless, workable ownership succession.
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For the investors who like the tax benefits of Section 1031 (aka “Like-Kind”) Exchanges, they should consider a new option for sheltering real estate capital gains: Qualified Opportunity Zone Funds (QOZF). These funds have arisen as a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which designated Qualified Opportunity Zones to promote investment in economically distressed areas. While 1031s remain a useful tool, QOZFs have many tax and other advantages compared with 1031s.
While the scale and pace of women’s wealth ownership may be growing at unprecedented rates, the culture around wealth and money decisions is deeply embedded in history that includes philanthropy, investment opportunities, and seeing the first self-made female millionaire in 1914. In this four-part series, we take a look at how women and wealth have the potential to transform the economy.
For insights on integrated wealth planning, this issue of The Advisor presents a view from the top with Joe Kahn, The New York Times Managing Editor, the impact of globalization 2.0, and the U.S. presidential election 2016 and the candidates’ tax platforms. Also in this issue are the best practices in providing age-appropriate transparency when it comes to discussing a family’s wealth plan. Following it is the takeaway on the advantage of Delaware’s laws on directed trusts.
David P. Harris, Chief Investment Officer, discusses how shifts in demographic landscapes can impact investments, with a specific consideration of aging populations in global markets.
With the U.S. elections front and center in the minds of most investors around the world, we focus this edition of Global Foresight on the potential outcomes of the November 8, 2016 vote and discuss how the elections could impact the composition of the Supreme Court, legislative priorities for the next Congress and the U.S. Federal Reserve.
What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School was a New York Times best-seller that highlighted ingredients to success absent from America’s business schools. In today’s negative interest rate environment, there may be an even more important consideration for business school grads—to consciously forget much of what was taught in business school. This paper identifies several investing concepts broadly taught across the nation and preached on Wall Street.
For eight years the Federal Reserve Bank has held interest rates abnormally low. The Fed's dual mandate of moderating unemployment and inflation seems to have morphed instead into keeping stock prices high. That has helped Wall Street tremendously but has punished the average person saving for retirement. What we need now is economic growth, and fiscal and monetary changes from Washington, D.C. to reverse the low return environment.
In this quarterly investment insights report—“The Economic Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”—is an examination of the uncertainty in the financial markets. It identifies and delves into key themes for investing in the current environment. The main concerns for investors revolve around the rising U.S. dollar, monetary policy changes and the probable introduction of fiscal stimulus, and the path of earnings. Deciphering these themes will be important to investors, and only time will tell how they play out.
The earth faces a tremendous challenge when it comes to water due to the supply and demand imbalance, the lack of substitutes, and the United Nation’s declaration that drinking water and sanitation are a human right. Investors are also increasingly focused on water-related challenges, recognizing the market’s potential to provide solutions for this expanding global problem while generating competitive financial returns.