Tax Loss Harvesting
Top strategies and rules that advisors can consider when using tax loss harvesting to reduce tax liabilities of client portfolios.
Survey: PPA Slowed Pension Plan Loss
By Staff WriterThe federal Pension Protection Act of 2006 seems to have slowed large U.S. employers' exodus from the defined benefit pension system.Consultants at Watson Wyatt Worldwide, ...
May 18, 2008
AIG Losses Foretell More Industry Problems, One Analyst PredictsAmerican International Group's record net income loss may be only the tip of the iceberg for an insurance industry that could still suffer significant net ...
May 18, 2008
AIG Losses Foretell More Industry Problems, One Analyst PredictsAmerican International Group's record net income loss may be only the tip of the iceberg for an insurance industry that could still suffer significant net ...
May 13, 2008
Witness: Congress Will Avoid Estate Tax HolidayCongress will need to address the estate tax as it seeks to simplify the tax code as a whole, experts told the Senate Finance committee ...
February 22, 2008
Supreme Court Says 401(k) Participants Can SueThe Supreme Court ruled February 20 that a participant in a 401(k) plan can sue to recover losses in his 401(k) account when the plan...
February 01, 2008
Expansion of AMT Put OffA flurry of last-minute year-end legislative action by the first session of the 110th Congress included a bill that postpones by a year expansion of...
January 30, 2008
Cushioning the BlowSwiss banking and securities giant UBS took the unusual step of pre-announcing full-year and fourth-quarter results on January 30. The Zurich- and Basel-based company says it "will report a net loss attributable to shareholders of approximately [Swiss francs] CHF 4.4 billion for full-year 2007," or about $4 billion U.S. dollars,...
January 17, 2008
Merrill Lynch Reports $8.6 Billion LossMerrill Lynch suffered a loss of $8.6 billion "from continuing operations" for 2007, caused "by significant declines in Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities (FICC) net revenues," for the last two quarters of the year, the firm said in a January 17 announcement.