Financial planning

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

While life insurance can be an income tax-free asset when structured appropriately, the income tax laws may result in the transfer of life insurance policies that are income taxable to both the transferor and the transferee.

Hillary Clinton is proposing a tax on the flash boys that may be unlike any in the world.

The House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing Wednesday examining the rising costs of higher education and tax policy, including how tax breaks could be a contributing factor behind spiraling tuition costs.

More than 20 percent of corporate board directors said their boards have been approached by activist investors during the past year, according to a new survey, but 46 percent of those polled have no plan in place for responding to activist investor challenges.

Financial planning columnist John Napolitano talks about how advisors can help their clients after they've retired.

Check out the digital edition of the October 2015 issue of Accounting Today.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

Four key steps to expanding your client offerings

Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood is haunted by some scary Halloween spirits while previewing the October issue.