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Ensuring a Sustainable Legacy: The Role of Wealth Management in Estate Planning

Ublocal

Wealth management is an integral part of successful estate planning, helping you locate and catalog your assets while maintaining and growing your wealth—so you can secure your legacy and provide for your family’s future. Certificates of Deposit : CDs can be useful investment tools, especially for individuals approaching retirement.

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Cash-Equivalent Accounts: The Safest Types of Investments

MyBankTracker

The typical financial advice is to be “100% invested” — meaning every available dollar you have is invested in a security, fund, or other investment. Cash-equivalent accounts are generally interest-bearing securities that mature in 90 days or less. Money market funds and accounts. Money market account (MMA).

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Bank Customers Lose Real Money

Jeff For Banks

You've been conservative, preferring the stability and security of bank deposits versus the gyrations of the market. Sure, your home value declined, but what does that mean to someone with little to no mortgage and isn't in the market to sell? Heck, maybe there'll be a reassessment and your real estate taxes will go down.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

When the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 passed, the top capital gains tax rate was lowered, providing yet another incentive for equity speculators to pour money into the fledgling internet industry. And quite frankly, I did not know there were so many tranches to mortgage-backed securities. What caused it? credit default swaps anyone?).

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Food for Thought: A Policy on Credit Exceptions

Abrigo

As the FDIC said recently: Exceptions to policy should be few in number and properly justified, approved, and tracked. and property tax payments. Get details in "A guide to implementing credit policy." There probably should be no more than 3-5 exception types in each of those major categories.

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Banks are Flush With Cash, For Now

TrustBank

In that case the bank can take those excess deposits and invest in marketable securities or just hold it at the Federal Reserve earning a nominal interest rate. The volatility in the equity markets and drop in interest rates for bonds and money market funds have pushed savers and investors to banks. Why such an increase?

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The State of Banking

Jeff For Banks

In 2013, there were 6,812 FDIC-insured financial institutions. Provision, and income taxes. Most of the institutions, if not all of them, probably took a Deferred Tax Asset (DTA) writedown in the income tax line item, impacting these bottom line ratios. Source for all charts: S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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