Third quarter results are in and clients are looking to you for their year-end planning strategies. If your clients are like most, they may have left you scrambling to optimize their taxes before the December 31st deadline. Have you thought about recommending a Donor Advised Fund (DAF)? Not only is this simple, cost-effective and meaningful [...]
As financial advisor, you are in a unique position to give your clients a deeper understanding of the variety of options for charitable giving tax strategies. Living a lifestyle of generosity involves giving wisely and abundantly. It also includes helping your clients choose the most efficient giving strategies for their families and specific goals. From [...]
As financial advisor, you are in a unique position to give your clients a deeper understanding of the variety of options for charitable giving tax strategies. Living a lifestyle of generosity involves giving wisely and abundantly. It also includes helping your clients choose the most efficient giving strategies for their families and specific goals. 2024 [...]
How a Donor Advised Fund helped establish a generational philanthropic legacy The Family Snapshot Martha, a widowed 84-year-old matriarch, has a large family of four children and twelve grandchildren. Under her financial advisor’s guidance, she established a Donor Advised Fund (DAF) valued at $900,000 and decided to use it as a tool to instill values [...]
Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) present a unique opportunity for you, the financial advisor, to engage more deeply with your clients, particularly across generations. By facilitating meaningful conversations around family values and philanthropic goals, you add significant value to your clients as their trusted advisor while earning the loyalty of the next generation. Here’s how you [...]
As a trusted financial advisor, you are uniquely positioned to help clients successfully navigate the complexities of wealth management and inheritance planning. One tool that remains underutilized by many advisors is the Donor Advised Fund (DAF). Beyond its immediate tax advantages and philanthropic benefits, a DAF can be instrumental in helping clients prepare the next [...]
As families plan for the transfer of significant wealth to younger generations, ensuring that this transition is both smooth, meaningful, and successful becomes paramount. One effective strategy to prepare heirs for their future responsibilities while preserving the estate and fostering family unity is through the use of Donor Advised Funds (DAFs). By integrating charitable giving [...]
We’ve all heard the expression Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations—one generation accumulates the money and the next two spend it down to zero or thereabouts. Shirtsleeves-to-shirtsleeves seems to put the blame for dissipating the family wealth on the backs of the children and grandchildren. But is that the only place it belongs? If the [...]
Read about Donor Advised Funds in this Crain's article by Jeremy Nobile Whether it's for the tax benefits, low hurdles for participation, overall flexibility or a number of other factors, donor-advised funds (DAFs) are seeing capital flowing in and out of them reach record levels. And even though new tax codes in 2018 have cast [...]
Wealthy families lose their money every day. Statistics show that 70% of the family fortunes created in America are gone in two generations and 90% within three. One of the factors contributing to this dismal record is a misunderstanding of what comprises a legacy. Legacy is more than the sum total of the material assets one [...]
