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In his new book, “Wealth in the Key of Life: Finding Your Financial Harmony,” Preston D. Cherry offers advice on navigating the emotional and psychological aspects mixed up in financial planning.

Estate planning usually involves determining how to pass assets on to younger generations. But instead of leaving a piece of real estate, bank account or burgeoning stock portfolio to your children, the smarter tax move might be to leave those assets to your parents. That's the crux of a clever tax minimization strategy known as […] The post ‘Upstream Gifting’ Can Help You Avoid Estate Taxes and Preserve Your Stepped-Up Basis appeared first on SmartReads by SmartAsset.

As major AI stocks like Nvidia take a breather amid valuation concerns, investors are looking for new opportunities as we wrap up 2024. Matt Powers, managing partner at Powers Advisory Group, recently said during an interview on CNBC that dividend ...

Wall Street analysts had hoped the housing market would show signs of life in 2024. Instead, it remained stagnant: Sales of previously owned homes are poised to set the record for the worst year since 1995 for the second year in a row.

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