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With the accelerated pace of technology advancements in addition to tax policy changes that require tax teams to synthesize immense amounts of data, tax departments must fully embrace technology to be able to deliver valuable insights and tax planning strategies. This Tax Innovation Guide outlines how to modernize and future-proof your tax practice to navigate the increasingly complicated web of tax laws and regulations, increase the tax department’s adaptability, and gain insights to inform and drive business strategy.

Employers who sponsor high deductible health plans (HDHPs) that are compatible with health savings accounts (HSAs) should take the opportunity to explain how they work during open enrollment. Through this bulletin and overview on HSAs, employers can see the HSA benefits they should highlight to their employees and what they need to know regarding HDHP plan design, from contribution limits changes to updated coverage options for telehealth and COVID-19 testing and treatment.

The notion of how to build trust in business is changing—fundamentally and rapidly. Due to powerful demographic shifts, most of today’s customers and employees hail from generations—the millennials and gen Z—whose values differ from those of baby boomers. At a basic level, the formula for building trust is expanding. When it comes to the new measures for earning trust, family businesses will need to do a much better job.

Over the last few decades, the lackluster performance of traditional active managers has fueled the rise of “closet indexing.” For some, this trend, and the related systemic underperformance of the active management industry, have renewed interest in concentrated investing in pursuit of improved investment performance. This paper leverages empirical evidence and expert insights to outline the merits of concentrated investing as an alternative or complement to more diversified solutions.

Following the enactment of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) explained that the CTA and FinCEN regulations "would help protect the U.S.

With climate disclosures like TCFD (the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures) being mandated across the globe, it’s time for risk management professionals to prepare for it. This playbook explores climate-related disclosures through the lens of risk and insurance, providing you with the information, specialist insight, disclosure requirements that vary from geography to geography, strategies, tools, and tips you will need to prepare for and navigate climate-change risks. It’s a resource for leaders at different stages of their climate and environmental change journey.

The traditional 60/40 portfolio—a mix of 60% stocks and 40% bonds—is suffering through one of its worst periods in history. Although the demise of the 60/40 portfolio has been predicted before, investors may now face a new regime of high inflation and rising correlations between equities and fixed incomes. For investors in hard-hit 60/40 portfolios, there is an alternative—the 80/20/40 portfolio with an option overlay—that may provide diversification without triggering adverse tax consequences, and may exhibit a better risk-reward profile, with lower volatility.

Generally, parents lose access to their child’s health and financial information once the child becomes a legal adult at the age of 18 unless certain steps are taken. To this end, here is a list of seven essential legal documents for parents to complete when their children turn 18 and before they go to college or leave home for other pursuits.

As families and their advisers begin to prepare for U.S. entities in their succession planning structures to comply with the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), consideration should be given to U.S. holding companies and the requirement to report a business street address. This "Supplementary Information" section of the final regulations issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) sheds light on the business street address requirement and comments received by FinCEN. This article also describes options and considerations for complying.

On the rise is Americans’ interest in living outside the U.S. for an extended period or even indefinitely. There are many different reasons for wanting to move to new countries, including career prospects, favorable financial conditions, love and family, and often simply for la dolce vita. Whatever the reason, a thoughtful and holistic approach is strongly recommended for anyone yearning to try an expat life. Before making the move abroad, it’s important to consider how that move would affect all aspects of your life and wealth planning.