Morning Memo
Wealth Management Morning Memo

MAY 25, 2018

HIGH NET WORTH

Taxation of Athletes and Entertainers Under the New Tax Law

Many adverse effects on the players’ pocketbooks can be mitigated or offset with decisive planning and action.

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ESTATE PLANNING

GST Tax Exemptions in Jeopardy

A recent PLR showcases risks associated with modifying grandfathered generation-skipping transfer trusts.

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Are Your Clients Hearing Your Message Loud and Clear?

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You're Late to the Alternative-Investment Party

Big investors have already snatched up most of the goodies.

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The Daily Brief

Despite Deutsche Bank Cuts, A Bright Future for Wealth Management

Deutsche Bank announced plans Thursday to cut 7,000 jobs across its equities sales and trading business to get its earnings back up. But CEO Christian Sewing said he had a positive outlook on the firm’s global wealth management business. ...

Millennials Are More Prepared For Retirement than Boomers
Millennials are more ready to retire than their Baby Boomer parents, according to the J.D. Power 2018 Group Retirement Satisfaction Study. The study, which surveyed 9,500 group retirement plan members, found that relative to age, millennials are most likely of all demographic groups to have set specific retirement goals and have the highest amount of savings. ...

Here's A New Way To "Relate" To Clients
On-the-go advisors have a new mobile-friendly and compliant way to engage with their clients via text or voice, announced Hearsay Systems at their company summit. The new tool, called Hearsay Relate, allows advisors to make calls and compliantly send texts to clients from a dedicated business number. ...

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