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Parents with special needs children have many challenges to address, to include how do they ensure their child receives adequate care for the long-term.

Nearly 62% of all corporations are S corps. But are they always the best choice?

In this webinar, Bob Keebler talks about how year-end planning in 2023 is as important as ever. Looming changes to the tax code and market losses provide excellent low or no risk opportunities to reduce your clients tax burden. Starting planning now will assure you have the time to meet with clients, review their situation for ideas, and show your value.

Preparing a tax return is an annual ritual that brings a lot of pain to many Americans, but by analyzing your client's 1040, you can find a plethora of valuable financial planning opportunities. In this webinar with CPA Larry Pon, listeners learned how to efficiently read a tax return and find financial planning guidance for their clients.

IRA planning is complex and requires a mastery of property law, income tax, estate tax and finance. Some planning techniques focus on financial engineering, such as converting traditional accounts to a Roth account or increasing taxable distributions to move funds to life insurance.

In this webinar, The Krause Agency’s National LTCI Director, Lori Gubash, CLTC, FICF, discussed the key LTCI strategies every advisor should know. Attendees learned planning strategies for positioning LTCI for end-of-year deductions, how to fund LTCI and whether a 1035 Exchange is right for your client, and end-of-year updates and what advisors need to know going forward.

Participants will learn the history and statistics of the life insurance market, what is a life insurance settlement, how do they benefit clients, unusual life settlements that worked, the process of selling, and how life insurance settlements benefit the financial advisor.

Annuities with lifetime income provisions offer risk pooling, which tends to be underappreciated as a unique source of returns that is unavailable for an investment portfolio.

Retirement is the most expensive purchase faced by most individuals. In this session, David Blanchett explored a framework to better understand how much retirement actually costs and a process for better estimating its true cost.