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ADVISORY & CONSULTING

Is Your Client’s Wealth Truly Protected?

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Many policies are too small. Here’s another option.

By Anthony Glomski

No matter where your client grew up or how they accumulated their wealth, they can be a target for a host of unscrupulous people. Many affluent investors, including entrepreneurs, are worried about keeping their assets safe from potential creditors, litigants, children’s spouses, ex-spouses, and disgruntled former employees and partners. They also want to protect their assets from catastrophic losses that could cripple them financially. As a CPA, you have an important role here.

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Wealth protection involves strategies you can use to ensure that your wealth is not unjustly taken from you by potential creditors, litigants, ex-spouses and children’s spouses. Wealth protection is also designed to protect you against catastrophic loss. Identity theft is another emerging threat to wealth protection that should be addressed carefully with your clients.
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Eight Questions for Estate Planning

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Difficult conversations: It’s difficult to talk about wealth transfer, but it’s vital.

By Anthony Glomski

Many accomplished entrepreneurs are looking beyond their own financial needs. They want to ensure that their heirs, parents, children and grandchildren are well taken care of in accordance with their wishes – with minimal difficulty and cost.

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According to Vanguard, more than half of affluent Americans say they are highly concerned about their kids’ (and grandkids’) financial situations. And yet, too many successful entrepreneurs have outdated estate plans or charitable giving plans that are not in sync with their current life circumstances and needs.
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Check Tax Effects Before Liquifying

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More than five out of six entrepreneurs don’t.

By Anthony Glomski

The ideal investment plan can be hugely important to helping your clients meet their goals. The right investment strategies set your clients up very well to preserve their money.

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But when it comes to your client’s long-term financial health and well-being, investments are only part of the picture. To ensure that every part of their financial life is firing on all cylinders and working in a smooth, coordinated manner, you need to go beyond just the world of stocks, bonds and even complex alternative investments.
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Control the Level of Risk

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How you as the personal CFO can help when your client’s instincts are wrong.

By Anthony Glomski

Let’s examine in detail some key drivers of investment success:

  1. Diversification can provide a smoother investment journey – and greater
    wealth.
  2. Global exposure adds value.
  3. Diversity with fixed income.
  4. Control what you can control.

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Andrew Carnegie’s advice for growing assets – put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket – is sage wisdom when it comes to building a great enterprise. That strategy has worked for you as an entrepreneur, and it’s likely why your clients are successful, too
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Clients Who Don’t Listen

Sometimes you need to take a hands-off approach.

By Anthony Glomski
Your $5 Million High-Net-Worth Practice

Staying invested consistently is the all-weather approach. What do we mean by this?

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Some of our clients reside near us in Los Angeles, where the average annual temperature is a very comfortable 65 degrees. In Southern California, our “seasons” don’t vary much from the average annual temperature of 65. Other clients reside in New York City, where the average temperature is cooler, but still a very comfortable 56 degrees. However, the temperature swings are much more significant in the Big Apple, ranging from stifling heat and humidity in the summer to icy temperatures and falling snow in winter.
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ADVISORY & CONSULTING

Why You Should Function As a Fiduciary

 

Diversify and figure out which assets NOT to own.

By Anthony Glomski
Your $5 Million High-Net-Worth Practice

The first thing you and your clients should understand as investors looking to make smart financial decisions is this: The broad asset classes you choose to own (such as stocks, bonds, alternatives, real estate, private equity and so on) and the percentage of your household wealth that you allocate to each of those asset classes will have a greater impact on your future investment returns than any other decision you make – including which individual stocks you buy.

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This means your first question as intelligent investors must be: How should I allocate my assets among the major asset categories?
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How to Flip the Switch to Wealth Preservation

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At some point, entrepreneurs might need to change their risk perspective.

By Anthony Glomski

After helping clients sell a business, it’s crucial to focus on preserving wealth. This may require them to adopt a new mindset about their money, investing and risk.

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In the old world, you could choose not to help your clients with their investments. Now it’s expected that at a minimum you will understand their investment plan and overall retirement plan. You don’t have to be the expert in every aspect of their financial plan, but you do need to make sure that all the different parts of the plan are aligned – and that all the other specialists working on behalf of your clients are aligned in their efforts.
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ADVISORY & CONSULTING

How to Outline Your Client’s Big Picture

Three worksheets to guide you.

By Anthony Glomski

I realize that not all of your clients are entrepreneurs. But, consider this: 90 percent of all the wealth in the U.S. is owned by business owners and 10 percent is inherited. Nearly every CPA I know works with business owners and their families. With all the changes impacting the CPA profession today, it’s imperative that you get comfortable changing lanes and adopt a more consultative role with your clients.

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If you’re a CPA and you’re not actively overseeing all the people helping your clients with their financial lives, then you’re missing a big opportunity with your practice. You’re overlooking the opportunity to make a massive impact on the lives of your best clients, their families and the causes they care about.
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