News and Updates

September 1, 2026

When Gifted Money Sits in Cash, Start With Five Minutes, Not a Manager

The gifts go out on schedule. They land in a 28 year old’s account, and then nothing happens. Months pass, the balance climbs, and every dollar of it stays in […]

August 18, 2026

What Advisors Actually Mean by “Complex”

If you held $28 million in a single stock and every advisor you met opened by telling you how complicated your situation is, what would you conclude? Probably what this […]

August 5, 2026

What a Whole Life Insurance Illustration Won’t Tell You

A whole life policy can’t hand you tax-free income for the rest of your life and still leave your full death benefit intact for your kids. Somewhere in that pitch, […]

July 15, 2026

Pressure Testing Dynasty Trusts

We recently received a question about whether irrevocable dynasty trust made sense for a family, with the goal of using it to invest in direct deals, venture funds, and SPVs […]

July 8, 2026

Should Your Aging Parent Wait to Gift, or Give Now While They Can Enjoy It?

A listener wrote in about her 88 year old mother, sharp as ever, who has about $6 million in a brokerage account loaded with decades of embedded gains, plus a […]

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