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Charitably Inclined: Donor Advised Funds – December 2019

December 10, 2019/in Articles/by Inlet Private Wealth Team Inlet

Since 1931, donor-advised fund (DAFs) have been offered by local community foundations and more recently have become available through numerous broker-sponsored charitable gift funds.  They are something akin a marriage between a private foundation and a mutual fund.

Generally, a DAF is a separately identified fund or account that is maintained and operated by a section 501(c)(3) organization, which is called a sponsoring organization.

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How You Can Benefit from Deferred Compensation Plans – November 2019

November 12, 2019/in Articles/by Inlet Private Wealth Team Inlet

Why Deferred Compensation Plans?

Sheltering your income can prove a beneficial task.  Many employers offer creative, cutting-edge benefit programs to attract potential employees.  It’s important to know what the different plans are and how a trusted advisor’s guidance can help you determine what works best for your financial situation.

While deferred compensation plans might be foreign to you,

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Powers of Attorney – October 2019

October 8, 2019/in Articles/by Inlet Private Wealth Team Inlet

A power of attorney is an incredibly powerful instrument that all people, regardless of wealth or status, need to consider.  Powers of attorney generally fall into two types:  healthcare and financial.  A power of attorney for healthcare, also called a living will in some instances, directs what medical treatment and life-sustaining measures are to be..

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Do You Still Need An Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust? – September, 2019

September 13, 2019/in Articles/by Inlet Private Wealth Team Inlet

You may have established an irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT) as an integral part of your estate plan.  An ILIT is a trust that is constructed to primarily hold a life insurance policy (or policies) on the grantor during the grantor’s lifetime.  As the name indicates, an ILIT generally cannot be revoked, amended or modified after it has been drafted and executed.  Once the grantor contributes property or

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Ted Furniss – Leader of Inlet Private Wealth®

August 28, 2019/in News/by Inlet Private Wealth Team Inlet

As recently published by Gulfstream Media,

Chief Investment Officer Ted Furniss is an independent thinker who enjoys the intellectual stimulation of analyzing investments.  His firm, Inlet Private Wealth®, differentiates itself from the rest by customizing the investments it manages for clients to meet specific financial objectives.  The company caters primarily to those with $5 million or more to invest whose objectives are too complex to properly be addressed by a generic asset allocation strategy.

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The Importance of Post-Mortem Planning – August 2019

August 13, 2019/in Articles/by Inlet Private Wealth Team Inlet

Post-mortem planning is a concept derived from the inability of estate planners to predict the future.  Given how quickly tax laws and circumstances can change, it is unlikely that a planner will be able to anticipate every variable that an executor or trustee will face after your death.

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Installment Sales to Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts – July 2019

July 17, 2019/in Articles/by Inlet Private Wealth Team Inlet

Estate planning with intentionally defective grantor trusts (IDGTs) is a well-established “asset freeze” technique that has numerous advantages, as described below.  In this article, we will discuss the features of this technique and how it can be used for your benefit.

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LIBOR Pains – July 2019

July 16, 2019/in Articles/by Inlet Private Wealth Team Inlet

The London Inter-Bank Offer Rate (LIBOR) currently underpins approximately $400 trillion of mortgages, bonds, corporate loans and derivatives globally.  To help put this number in perspective, the World Bank estimates the annual value of global economic activity, or GDP, at $80 trillion which is “only” one-fifth of this amount.

LIBOR is set by a group of banks that provide estimates of the rate they will lend to other banks over various time periods.  It is based on non-binding prices in the unsecured money market and this creates perverse incentives that led to several financial institutions manipulating or rigging LIBOR rates to help benefit derivatives traders.  The discovery of this collusion among financial institutions on LIBOR rates in 2012 has resulted in regulators demanding reform via a more durable, tamper-proof alternative to LIBOR and as a result, LIBOR will be phased out by the end of 2021.

In the effort to replace LIBOR, several new rates have recently been conceived.  The United States created the Secured Overnight Financing Rate or SOFR.  Similarly, the United Kingdom has created SONIA (Secured Overnight Inter-Bank Average Rate), the European Central Bank has created ESTER (Euro Short-term Rate), Japan has created TONAR (Tokyo Overnight Average Rate) and Switzerland has created SARON (Swiss Average Rate Overnight).

Switching from LIBOR to this acronym soup of new rates is going to be far from simple.  SOFR et al. are calculated using completed transactions and/or trade quotes and they lack term structure (LIBOR is available in overnight rates, one-month, three-month, six-month and 12-month terms etc.).  Banks, companies and investors also require a rate that reflects the credit risk when lending funds.  Since SOFR is derived from the rate to borrow cash overnight using US Government securities, it is effectively a risk-free rate that does not properly reflect underlying credit risk.  This is also problematic because in times of financial stress, SOFR could experience a decline due to investors seeking the safety of government issued securities while in economic reality the actual credit risk being linked to SOFR would likely increase.  Many investors and companies are also currently unable to buy and sell debt linked to SOFR et al. because their legacy accounting and trading systems are not properly configured.

This has led some banks to budget more for this transition than for Brexit.  According to the consultancy Oliver Wyman, virtually no loans linked to these new rates have been made to date and little has been done to move existing contracts that last beyond 2021 off LIBOR.  This is concerning as most of the $35+ trillion LIBOR based contracts surviving beyond 2022 cannot simply be switched from one benchmark to another because most of these contracts do not have adequate fallback terms stating what rate should apply when LIBOR vanishes.

The New York Fed’s general counsel has referred to the demise of LIBOR as a “Defcon 1 litigation event” and we strongly encourage investors to revisit and fully evaluate any securities they hold linked to LIBOR that mature after 2021.  For example, preferred stocks that pay investors the higher of a fixed or floating rate linked to LIBOR will likely end up owning what effectively becomes a permanent fixed rate security in 2022.  We do not think that the current prices for most of these preferred stocks properly reflect this risk.  In addition, because SOFR is secured and LIBOR is not, securities that are able to legally transition to SOFR will likely receive interest payments that are lower than they would have received under LIBOR.

The clients of Inlet Private Wealth® can take comfort in knowing that the risk posed by LIBOR’s demise has been proactively addressed in their accounts.  However, we invite investors that own securities linked to LIBOR held external to Inlet Private Wealth to contact us should they have concerns.

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A Guide to Institutional Trust and Custody Services – June 2019

June 17, 2019/in Articles/by Inlet Private Wealth Team Inlet

In contrast to a personal trust, where the grantor or creator of the trust is an individual or perhaps a family unit, an institutional trust is established by a corporation, partnership or other.

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The Charitable Remainder Trust: A Versatile Tool for the Tax-Savvy Philanthropist – May 2019

May 17, 2019/in Articles/by Inlet Private Wealth Team Inlet

The charitable remainder trust, or CRT, is the last bastion of a bygone era of charitable tax incentives.  Some might say the CRT is the final, true charitable tax incentive available to those with the means to utilize it.

The CRT remains one of the most effective ways for a philanthropic-minded grantor to provide an income stream for a beneficiary,

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