The Gift that Keeps Giving – Year-End Charitable Gifting
December 4, 2018
Hard working, well compensated, and generous are words we use to describe our insurance producer clients. These characteristics all lead to year-end tax planning opportunities around charitable giving. We recently completed year-end tax planning for an insurance producer (we will call him Mike) who works for a publicly traded agency. Mike and his wife Mary […]
Strategic Philanthropy
November 8, 2018
“Charitable giving is what most of us do – reactively responding to requests for gifts. Philanthropy is more strategic in nature – proactively planning where our dollars are going and the impact they are having” – Steve Condon, Truepoint Wealth Counsel, LLC Philanthropy Begins at Home – Nurturing Family Values That Foster a Generous Next […]
Outlasting Your Life – Defining Your Legacy
May 29, 2018
If you stop for a minute and think about the future – what will outlast your life? How will your legacy be defined? The last few posts I have discussed issues (love and loss) that are much more focused on the current than the future. Legacy is a concept, for many, that is not often […]
Working Wealthy – Unlucky or Unprepared?
February 27, 2018
This January that peculiar little light lit up on my dashboard and, sure enough, my driver’s side rear tire was flat. Fortunately, when this happened I was only blocks away from a gas station. I was in luck! The gas station had an air pump (and it was working), but that’s where the good news […]