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Tax Advice Restrictions For Financial Advisors: How To Offer Tax Planning And Remain In Compliance

Nerd's Eye View

And the consequences for incorrect tax advice can include legal and financial penalties if a client were to be harmed by the wrong advice – which is often not covered by the firm’s E&O insurance –creating an expensive liability when tax advice goes wrong.

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The Liability Risk Of Giving Inadvertent Tax Advice (And How To Avoid It)

Nerd's Eye View

In recent years, financial advisors have increasingly embraced tax planning as a core element of delivering value to clients. Despite this growing interest in tax conversations, most advisors are still quick to distinguish their services as "tax planning", not "tax advice" – a distinction largely driven by liability concerns.

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Wealthbox’s Upcoming Built-In AI Meeting Notes Tool Signals Competition For Standalone Providers (And More Of The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech – March 2025)

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Advisor workflow support solution Hubly has been acquired by Docupace, which suggests that Hubly might have struggled to gain a critical mass of users as a solution to help solve the shortcomings of advisor CRM systems' workflow capabilities – especially given that the price of Hubly was often as much or more expensive than the CRM platforms (..)

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The 18 Best Financial Advisor Conferences To Attend In 2025

Nerd's Eye View

As a result, I am often asked for my own suggestions of what, really, are the industry's 'best' conferences to attend, and back in 2012, I started to craft my own annual list of 'best-in-class' top conferences for financial advisors.

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It’s Crunch Time For Many Policyholders

Wealth Management

Whether clients support the policies with cash gifts or split-dollar, the discussion of options will necessarily involve a combination of insurance planning, tax planning, income and gift tax-oriented wealth transfer planning and investment planning.

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Automated Tax-Loss Harvesting Technology: Is The Value Overstated?

Nerd's Eye View

Unfortunately, much of the technology dedicated to automated tax-loss harvesting fails to consider the individual tax circumstances that drive most of the true value of harvesting losses, and instead focuses on the portfolio-management aspect of efficiently capturing as many losses as possible. Read More.

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The Future Of Financial Advice: How Tech and Approaches In 2030 Will Differ From Today

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is the projected future direction of medical care, where, instead of taking a reactive approach to disease and illness, healthcare practitioners instead invest more energy focusing on preventing illness and maintaining good health in the first place through more personalized plans for patients. Specifically, Financial Advice 3.0