Four Important Estate Planning Documents
Join Managing Associate Melanie Wells In this episode of Planning Priorities, where she discusses the importance of estate planning and the four estate planning documents that everyone should have.
Join Managing Associate Melanie Wells In this episode of Planning Priorities, where she discusses the importance of estate planning and the four estate planning documents that everyone should have.
Research Analyst Nick Antonucci, CVA, CEPA, Managing Associate Jarrett McKenzie, CFP®, CWS®, and Associate Josh Weidie, CFP®, CWS®, team up to help an investor who wants to provide for his wife when he passes but is also concerned about keeping certain assets in the family.
Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, is joined by Client Relationship Manager Justin Wagner, AIF®, and Estate Planning Attorney Arun Gupta to discuss an investor who has named his children as beneficiaries of his 401(k); however, the investor just married, which could change the distribution of his 401(k) should something happen to him.
Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, is joined by Managing Associate Melanie Wells, CFP®, and Associate Giuliana Barbagelata, CFP®, to discuss some of the important considerations unmarried couples need to consider when estate planning. The process starts with financial planning, including how assets are titled, beneficiary designations, and determining if assets should be placed in a trust.
Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, is joined by Senior Associate Michael Griffin, CFP®, and Associate Peter Lynch to discuss an investor who wants to direct her significant inheritance to charity by creating a lasting legacy.
Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, is joined by Senior Associate Melanie Wells, CFP®, along with Associate Clay Norman, CFP®, to provide advice to an investor who is stuck in the middle of caring for her parents’ finances and supporting her children. They discuss what she needs to do to ensure her own financial house is in order.
Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, is joined by Senior Associates Melanie Wells, CFP®, and Logan Daniel, CFP®, CRPC®, to review a senior investor’s situation and how she can protect her money should she cognitively decline. Unfortunately, aging increases the risk of natural cognitive decline, dementia, or side effects from medications, putting seniors in a vulnerable position for financial abuse.
Having a comprehensive end-of-life plan can significantly ease the burden on family members during a highly emotional period.
Senior Associate Michael Griffin, CFP®, Senior Financial Planner Josh Weidie, CWS®, and Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, provide advice for a couple of investors who have a highly appreciated asset that they want to reinvest now after watching it lose around 20% this year.
In this week’s case study on “Money Talks,” Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, is joined by Associate Peter Lynch and Senior Financial Planner Giuliana Barbagelata to provide some alternative options to a “Stretch IRA.”