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All grown-ups know about the importance of estate planning. Even if we don’t always heed the good advice, we know that we need a will, life insurance, and an estate plan, and we know what we need to do to ensure that our money and property is distributed efficiently and in accordance with our wishes. [...]
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As investors, we tend to focus most of our attention on our actual investments and pay minimal attention to systems in place to regulate and facilitate them. This is a good thing, as it is evidence of a system that does what it is supposed to do. But that may be about to change.
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In yesterday’s post, I mentioned that donating securities to a charity can offer some attractive tax benefits. A reader wrote and asked me a few questions about this, and my long winded response quickly began to look like a nice blog posting for anyone else who may be interested in this topic.
In Canada, donations to [...]
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Based on the (thankfully) limited time I have spent in and around prison, there is a clearly defined pecking order amongst inmates, with child molesters occupying the nadir and (failed) bank robbers at the zenith. My illegal immigrants and petty crooks generally fell comfortably in the middle. But I wonder where someone being sent to prison [...]
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My wife won’t watch the news with me anymore. Apparently, my habit of talking back to the TV during reports on court cases is a little less than endearing. I just can’t help it, though- media reports on legal issues tend to range from slightly misleading to blatantly incorrect, and that drives me batty.
TechCrunch posted [...]
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