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Tax Law Changes Affecting Your Clients

From: thinkadvisor.com

Yes, it’s tax filing season again, already!! And again for this year, we had some tax laws extended by Congress through 2016 or 2019, but some were actually made permanent.

So for the context of this article, we’ll discuss only those changes affecting your individual clients.

Nurse Reveals the Top Five Regrets People Make on their Deathbed

From: wakeup-world.com

For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality.

I learnt never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some…

The consequences of unchecked beneficiary designations

View this PDF to see the importance of you choosing your beneficiaries, not the courts:

5 financial milestones to reach in your 20s

From: washingtonpost.com

To be a 20-something is to wrestle again and again with big life moments: Graduating from college. Getting a job. Moving into your own place. Getting another job. Getting married. Buying a house, maybe, or having a kid.

Each milestone comes with plenty of reasons to worry about money. Or as millennial-focused financial adviser Sophia Bera more enthusiastically puts it, “major planning opportunities.”

And…

Why Everyone Should Unplug More Often

From: greatist.com

I don’t know about you, but my smartphone sometimes seems like Grand Central Station at rush hour. Between texts, emails, regular old phone calls, and notifications from multiple social media sites, keeping up with all the inputs can feel like a full-time job. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I passed a full 12 hours without checking my phone at least once….

Advisors Still Favor Active Management, but Preferences Are Shifting: Practical Perspectives

From: thinkadvisor.com

Of the 40% of surveyed advisors who changed allocations, most did so by increasing their use of passively managed investments.

Despite the continuing debate about active versus passive asset management and the increasing popularity of ETFs, the majority of financial advisors haven’t changed their investment strategies and continue to favor active management, according to a new report from consulting…

Harvard Neurosurgeon Confirms The Afterlife Exists

From: spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com

Do we have a soul? Is there life after death? The afterlife is something that has been experienced by countless people since recorded history who have returned to tell their tales, with the most noteworthy account experienced first-hand by Harvard trained brain neurosurgeon of 25 years, Dr. Eben Alexander. This is not just another afterlife account that can be written off as…