Tag: Michael Kitces

Language Fail in the Land of Financial Planners: The Smooshing Together of Financial Planning and Investment Advising

Hey kids! The FP50IBD for 2014 is out, and it’s a real humdinger! What’s that you say? You’re wondering what that nasty looking little squirt and a half of letters and numbers all strung together in that first paragraph means, are ya? Please allow me to introduce . . . […]

The Fee-Only vs. Fee-Based Financial Planner Dustup: Much Todo About Something?

Quick: what’s the difference between a “fee-only” financial planner and a “fee-based” financial planner? You haven’t a clue, right? Well, that means that the financial planning community hasn’t done a great job educating the public at large about what these labels mean, which is too bad because helping the public […]

The Death Tax is Dead

Michael Kitces, presenting at the FPA of San Francisco this past week, unleashed a number that knocked my socks off. He said that the number of estates paying the estate tax in a typical year under our current estate tax regime is in the neighborhood of three to four thousand. […]