To adapt to the unprecedented pace of change across the tax landscape, companies must focus on embracing a total tax liability mindset—a holistic understanding of the sum of all taxes across the entirety of the organization. Once viewed as a compliance-driven, back-office function, effective tax planning is now crucial to business perfor...
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Finding professional service providers—including lawyers and certified accountants—can be difficult. Challenges include working with excessive complexity, conflicts of interest, and dramatic changes within the legal and accounting business model. But there are ways to address the challenges and make the most of your professional relatio...
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 col...
A new U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Kaestner case means that more out-of-state residents will be able to fully realize the benefits of Tennessee's progressive trust laws and zero income tax on non-residents. Previously, many states relied on the residence of a trust beneficiary as one of the criteria for taxing a trust. In essence, the new r...
As healthcare acuity continues to rise among assisted living and independent living residents, savvy providers are finding ways to expand their reach across the care continuum. While this often means branching out into services such as in-home care and insurance products, increasingly providers are opting to stick to the business of service-enhance...
Intuitively, many business managers recognize that their decision window has been shrinking with each passing year. Information dissemination has become real-time and on-demand. What is required is an analytical approach that enables management to monitor and measure the development of the important strategic drivers and make decisions with confide...
In today’s complicated business climate, is your accounting software helping you grow and compete—or holding you back? This guide will help you understand whether it’s time to make a move. You’ll discover:why most financial software systems hinder your ability to get good financial information; the six key questions to ...
What does the global family wealth market look like? Where is it expanding or contracting, and where are the greatest areas of concentration and, thus, the greatest opportunities for UHNW service growth? From this 2012 Wealth Advisor Forum presentation, gain an understanding of global family wealth demographics as well as insights into how three pa...
We have all heard the daunting forecasts about how many families are expected to change advisors as wealth transfers from one generation to the next. While no advisor wants to become a statistic, many are not clear as to the right strategies or tactics for effectively connecting with and meeting the expectations of the next generation of decision m...
Glossy brochures and a well designed website are fundamental marketing tools, but in today’s world, when people want to learn about your firm, they are just as likely to use various social media sites within their due diligence. This is a tricky thing for advisors to balance. Without a social media presence, you risk your company’s brand and being ...
Helping clients achieve important life goals by integrating the full range of their planning and financial needs is enormously complex, often requiring the efforts of numerous, highly skilled individuals working in concert. In this session, which draws on newly released FOX research, you will hear how some firms are finding ways to manage their ope...
We all attend countless social events for work and our personal lives, yet we often fail to recognize the full potential that every event truly provides. In this powerful 2012 Wealth Advisor Forum session, Laura Schwartz demonstrated why it is critical to rethink your definition and approach to networking to ensure that you identify and capture eve...
All of us want to outperform the competition and be the best in our industry but what does that truly take? In this presentation from the 2012 Wealth Advisor Forum, you will learn a unique seven step process to help you not only surpass the competition in terms of service but create a customer-centric culture that enables you to provide an unparall...
Choosing a technology platform is a time-consuming process leading to a critical decision. You need to be confident that the platform supports your multi-year benefits strategy, and that the HR technology vendor you select will meet your needs today—and in the future. When it comes to choosing the right vendor and solution, it is crucial to a...
Families spend a lifetime building a legacy and tragically, just one lawsuit can place that legacy in jeopardy. Without that critical layer of personal liability insurance, your are at risk. Personal excess liability coverage—commonly called an umbrella policy—protects individuals from a covered claim brought against them, personal injury, or ...