The tax code allows investors and traders, and indeed all taxpayers, to pay the least amount of tax as is permitted by law. If you invest or trade stocks, bonds, options or other securities, you should be aware of how to best utilize the...

You know you need an estate plan. And it’s good practice to protect your legacy, your family and your wishes. Whether you create a will, a trust, appropriate beneficiary designations on accounts, or some combination of the foregoing...

What are your thoughts about frequency of “adjusting” your investments in your portfolio? Do you think you should constantly be doing something? As we have all heard, timing is everything, or is it?

 
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Through one of my contacts, I learned that a music supervisor needed some original jazz songs for placement in a video project. It wasn’t going to be anything terribly scintillating. Simply background for a couple of scenes in a cable-TV series, as I recall. The...

We are all familiar with the author who writes the chilling horror story, the musician who pens the brooding, introspective song, or the video whose photographer, rather than an presenting uplifting images, displays for us distressing ones. We need look no further than the typical evening...