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Cybersecurity Best Practices: Staying Vigilant During the Russia-Ukraine Crisis

While following cybersecurity best practices is always important, there are often events that bring the importance of these measures back ...

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How Should I React to Market Volatility?

After years of positive market performance, newer investors are seeing for the first time that markets do not go up ...

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Puncturing Inflation

“We don’t really know what it is, we don’t really know what causes it, we don’t really know how to ...

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Margin vs. Mortgage: What to Consider When Purchasing a Home

Most of us understand how getting a mortgage can help us to purchase a home. We use our personal funds ...

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How Medical Professionals Can Build a Solid Financial Plan

The pandemic has been taking a grueling toll on medical professionals. According to a recent survey, more than 73% of ...

What Corporate Executives Should Know About Their Equity Compensation

You work so hard to drive company performance, and your success and accomplishments provide additional compensation through your company’s equity-based ...

When Is the Right Time to Hire a Financial Advisor?

Many people think you shouldn’t hire a financial advisor until you have accrued a great deal of assets.  However, that’s ...

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What Are Incentive Stock Options (ISOs)?

All of today’s largest, blue-chip companies began as the small start-ups of yesterday. Some created entirely new industries, like Google ...

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Mitigate New York’s Estate Tax Cliff with Smart Estate Planning and Gifting Strategies – 2022 Update

While the large increase in the federal estate tax exemption has provided many with federal estate tax relief, New Yorkers ...

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Estate Planning in Light of Current Law: Your Questions and Our Answers – 2022 Update

This post will help you consider estate planning strategies in light of the current federal estate, gift and generation skipping ...

Basics of Federal Estate, Gift, and Generation-Skipping Transfer (“GST”) Tax – 2022 Update

The bad news is that there is a federal tax on assets that you give away during life, at death, ...

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Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts (SLATs): FAQs – 2022 Update

What is a Spousal Lifetime Access Trust (SLAT)? It is a trust that you (the grantor) set up for the ...