Investment Strategies

Exchange funds could help address some wealthy clients' concentration risks and tax quandaries at the same time.

SyntheticFi co-founder Joseph Wang says his firm's investment and trading technology makes an options strategy long embraced by hedge funds more accessible to advisors and their clients.

The "sticker shock" of tax rates and IRS reporting rules may place the recent record highs and falls in a different context for investors, one expert says.

None of the findings in a new working academic paper will likely surprise financial advisors. But they could provide some helpful data for conversations with investors.

The accounts give wealthy investors more opportunities to place alternative vehicles in a tax-advantaged retirement nest egg. But mistakes can be costly.

Regulators officially approved 30 more funds last month, with more expected authorizations in 2026. Will financial advisors and their clients bite?

Independent research firm Morningstar's latest study of the value of financial advice examines tax-efficient IRA asset location during the decumulation phase.

Morningstar's study of this growing area of asset management suggests that 529 plan quality is rising, despite the research firm's lackluster grades for it.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a new accounting standards update aimed at improving its existing hedge accounting guidance.

Cerulli's research based on a survey of wealth and asset management firms suggest that firms have only just begun to address clients' comprehensive planning needs.

The Trump megalaw's expansion of opportunity zone credits and other investment approaches comes with caveats based on timing and taxes.

Politics are playing an outsize role in portfolio management. Here's how experts see the fixed-income sector changing under the pending One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

The industry is awaiting SEC approval for dozens of applications, even as Vanguard's shareholder case highlights some of the tax complexity of the looming shift.

Areas around Jackson Hole, Aspen, Palm Beach, Miami, New York, Dallas and Austin are in the group. Other top performers may come as more of a surprise.

The investment strategy may generate much greater loss harvesting than direct indexing, but backers point out that they work much differently.

The founder of Tulsa Innovation Labs is calling for changes to draw more investments from civic-minded financial advisors and clients in their local communities.

The wrong asset location could defeat the whole purpose of the strategy, according to a new study on Treasury inflation-protected securities.

As the tax deferral method grows in popularity, experts caution that the benefits come with important caveats for financial advisors to keep in mind.

Funds that use Section 351 conversions are rolling out in 2025, led by the launch of one with the ticker TAX. Here's what financial advisors and investors should know.

Wealthy clients and other accredited investors should consider drilling deductions, opportunity zones and 1031 exchanges in 2025, an expert says.

The tax-efficient, low-cost funds may have an even greater advantage over traditional mutual funds due to the IRS's lack of a definition for "substantially identical" securities.

Avoiding fund distributions or using offsetting losses in any month can deliver big savings on payments to Uncle Sam at the end of the year, experts say.

The accounts are expected to grow by another trillion dollars over the next decade because of their tax and flexibility advantages, Daffy CEO Adam Nash said.

The planning strategies for large individual equity holdings pose tax, investment and behavioral questions for financial advisors and their customers.

The combination of variable prepaid forwards with long and short equity positions outpaces the after-tax returns of a direct indexing strategy, a new study found.

Art carries higher rates than most investments, but financial advisors and their clients can tap into trusts, charitable donations, loss harvesting and the stepped-up basis.

The growing fixed-income products carry some risks, but their returns this year are attracting more financial advisors and their clients, according to experts.

Qualified small business stock carries major potential savings for startup founders and investors, but the benefits come with some important caveats to keep in mind.

Changes in residency, qualified personal residence trusts and other methods cited by experts carry big savings — with some caveats.

Proposals to crack down on private placement insurance contracts aren't close to becoming law. Here's how advisors and their clients can use them for the time being.

Reporting requirements and asset location could loom large for clients seeking greater yield and diversification without thinking through payments to Uncle Sam.

Bill Harris, the former CEO of Personal Capital, TurboTax and PayPal published a new edition of his "Investment Tax Guide" with the future of the industry in mind.

Technology helps financial advisors unlock much more value by being able to switch up clients' buckets of investments at any time throughout the year.

Tax-loss harvesting through "highly correlated" products is driving a significant share of trading volume, according to a working academic paper.

Financial advisors and tax professionals working with entrepreneurs and potential startup investors should consider an often-overlooked exemption, experts say.

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Tax-loss harvesting can eke out some extra percentage points of return — if you don't try to time the market and miss a rebound.

The cash-like instruments have garnered hundreds of billions of dollars since the banking crisis began.

New data from Fidelity Investment shows disparate reductions in account balances for IRAs and employer-sponsored retirement plans last year.

Most studies showing "tax alpha" through tax-loss harvesting assume investors are already rich, taxed in the highest brackets and flush with short-term capital gains.

The board issued an accounting standards update aimed at better aligning hedge accounting with an organization’s risk management strategies.

The mortgage interest deduction is capped, but the investment interest expense deduction isn’t.

Chargebee has acquired Brighback; and GTreasury has bought Hedge Trackers.

FASB's proposed update could help companies with their risk management, but they will probably need sophisticated hedging expertise to benefit.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released a proposed accounting standards update Wednesday to better line up a company’s hedge accounting with its risk management strategies.

Many HNW investors are underwhelmed with the offerings of the average financial planning firm.

One of the biggest arguments against checks is that they’re just plain old, invented to support even older banking processes.

The new hedge accounting standard is encouraging more companies to re-evaluate their risk management, according to a new report from Deloitte.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released a proposed accounting standards update Tuesday aimed at clarifying some areas of its 2017 hedging standard for derivatives.

A deadline looms, but questions remain and more guidance is needed.

The board approved proposals to delay the effective dates of its leases, credit losses, hedging and long-duration insurance contract standards.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is aiming to clarify the interaction between two of its earlier standards.

One of China’s largest listed drugmakers said it overstated cash holdings by $4.4 billion, sending its shares and bonds tumbling.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released an accounting standards update Thursday to clarify three of its recent standards for credit losses, hedging, and recognition and measurement of financial instruments.

CPA financial planners share their favorite moves for kicking off the year right.

ASU 2018-16 lets hedgers use the SOFR Overnight Index Swap Financing Rate.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new hedge accounting standard is prompting some companies to adopt the standard ahead of the Jan 1, 2019 effective date, though many companies are still not using hedge accounting at all.

The financial instruments standard requires a new kind of calculation that is proving disruptive.

A proposed tax on financial transactions in 10 European Union countries could generate about 19.6 billion euros ($23.5 billion) of annual revenue, though Brexit could make collection more difficult, according to a new estimate.

Hedge-fund billionaires were already struggling to keep investors from heading out the door. Then along came another problem: big tax bills.

There may be some advantages, particularly for multinationals, with getting an early jump on FASB's changes in the hedging rules.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a proposal Tuesday to expand the list of benchmark interest rates allowed for hedge accounting.

Investors have dodged a rule change that could have raised their tax bills when they sell stock.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released its long-awaited hedging standard, the final component of its financial instruments convergence project with the International Accounting Standards Board.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released its long-awaited hedge accounting standard this week, but companies may want to be careful about adopting it early, or else they could miss out on some one-time benefits.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board voted Wednesday to proceed to a final standard on hedge accounting, part of the financial instruments project that FASB had been working on for years with the International Accounting Standards Board before the two boards went their separate ways.

Seattle-based financial services company agrees to pay a $500,000 penalty to settle charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it improperly performed hedge accounting and later took steps to impede potential whistleblowers.