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Wealth Management Is In Your Control
Many feel helpless to direct their own success, but nothing could be further from the truth.
Billing Client Accounts to the Client’s Greatest Benefit
Investment managers can bring clients greater savings by carefully considering how they bill different types of accounts.
Planning for a Funeral
Funeral expenses are often a family’s fourth largest expense.
Best Practices for Trusts, Foundations, and Endowments
Even if a committee has contracted with “prudent experts,” the Committee never delegates its fiduciary responsibility.
Comparing Donor-Advised Funds
Which company should you choose when you’re opening a donor-advised fund?
Do Children Need To File A Tax Return To Fund Their Roth IRA?
The IRS does not require dependents whose gross income is only earned income to file a tax return if the amount is less than a certain amount.
Fulfilling Your Fiduciary Duty as a Trustee or Board Member
Despite the fact that millions serve in a fiduciary role, many are wholly unaware of their legal responsibilities.
Recouping Losses Is Not As Hard As You Think
Many advisors and most investors don’t really understand the math on how to compute investment returns.
Radio: The Importance of Real Estate
David John Marotta was interviewed on radio’s Schilling Show discussing real estate and its importance in your total net worth.
Understanding Virginia’s Tax Withholding Rules
We know how federal rules require you to either have tax withheld or make estimated payments of tax that will be due, but it is easy to forget that states have their own revenue departments and their own rules.
Changing Your Financial Behavior Is Difficult
Our minds are wired to quickly generalize on perceived trends and react to them.
Double Bottom Bear: The Bear Market of 1970
Bear Markets are unpredictable, but there is no reason that they should be a cause of distress.
How Much Can I Withdraw in Retirement?
We have calculated safe withdrawal rates for ages 0 to 100 based on age-appropriate asset allocation mixes.
Five Reasons to Have Some Cash Equivalents
There are at least five reasons to hold cash. Without a good reason to hold cash, you may be holding too much.
TD Ameritrade Trust Company President Gets “Fee-Only” Wrong
It should be clear that “fee-only” means “fee-only,” not “fees and third-party manager revenue-sharing and trailing mutual fund fees.”