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Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images If the current stock market rally added profits to your portfolio, a lesser-known strategy could help rebalance your assets or reduce future taxes. The strategy, known as tax-gain harvesting, allows you to leverage lower earning years by strategically selling profitable brokerage account assets. “Tax gain harvesting is like a

Klaus Vedfelt | Digitalvision | Getty Images As financial advisors weigh year-end tax planning strategies, there’s a looming issue on the horizon for high-net-worth clients. Several key provisions from the Republicans’ signature 2017 tax overhaul are slated to expire after 2025, including a higher federal gift and estate tax exemption that allows more wealthy Americans

When your life hits a rough patch, there’s nothing wrong with shedding a few tears, but “you have to soldier through it,” according to late billionaire Charlie Munger. “You can cry, all right. But you can’t quit,” Munger told CNBC’s Becky Quick last month, shortly before his death at age 99. Amid sharing his tips

When it comes to the ultra rich, you might think there’s some unknown secret to attaining such success. But there isn’t, according to billionaire Charlie Munger, who died last week at age 99. “I don’t know the secret,” Munger told CNBC’s Becky Quick in an interview last month, initially meant to air on his 100th

In 2016, I was 36 years into a successful career as a financial author, podcaster, TV host and speaker. But it seemed like many of my peers were striking gold after creating virtual courses on investing and entrepreneurship.  There were even popular courses on how to build courses. Some were priced for as much as

In this article RACE-IT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Don’t call the Ferrari Purosangue an SUV. For one, the company doesn’t, omitting the moniker from its launch materials and press announcements, dubbing it instead “the first four-door, four-seater Ferrari.” Ferrari’s mystique is built on racing and rarity. Slapping the famed prancing horse on just

Alistair Berg | Digitalvision | Getty Images For years, interest rates were low, inflation was steady and both financial markets and economic conditions were relatively stable. Then the Covid-19 pandemic turned everything on its head. Inflation began to soar and central banks around the world hiked interest rates in an effort to halt rising prices.

Consumer spending has remained remarkably resilient in the face of persistent inflation — but that has come at a cost. To keep up with higher prices, Americans racked up more credit card debt than ever this year. Not only are balances higher, about half, or 47%, of cardholders are carrying debt from month to month, creating

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a fireside discussion on artificial intelligence risks with Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, not pictured, in London, UK, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023.  Tolga Akmen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla faces a growing revolt in Scandinavia after Danish dockworkers joined a sympathy strike with Swedish

High schools have been buzzing about financial education. The latest “report card” from the Center for Financial Literacy at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, shows seven states — Alabama, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia — made the top grade. They earned an “A” because in those states, high school graduates in the class

Avoiding mistakes in business and life comes down a few simple things, according to billionaire investor Charlie Munger, who died last week at age 99: good financial habits, integrity and “avoiding toxic people and toxic activities.” Munger shared the advice during a Q&A session at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting in May. An investing icon

In this photo illustration, British billionaire Richard Branson is seen on a fragment of a Virgin Galactic Unity 22 Spaceflight Livestream Youtube video displayed on a smartphone with the Virgin Galactic logo in the background. Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images Virgin Galactic shares plunged more than 14% in premarket trade on Monday, after

Charlie Munger, who died at age 99 last week, attributed his success and longevity at least partially to a single piece of advice: “Avoid crazy at all costs.” That’s what he told CNBC’s Becky Quick last month, in an interview meant to air on his 100th birthday in January. Munger was known as the longtime

Career changes can be hard, even for Bill Gates — who credits a simple, lifelong habit for his switch from a narrow-minded, decades-long focus on computers and software to international philanthropy. “I had a long period from about age 18 to 40 where I was very monomaniacal … Microsoft was everything,” Gates, 68, recently told

In the small town of Hinsdale, New Hampshire, people knew Geoffrey Holt as the unassuming caretaker of the mobile home park where he lived. What they didn’t know was that he was a multimillionaire — and he donated the entirety of his $3.8 million fortune to the 4,000-person community after he died at age 82

Michael Morrow Courtesy: Michael Morrow As Americans grapple with economic uncertainty, educators in Nashville, Tennessee, are preparing high school and middle school students with personal finance courses that many of their parents never had. Currently, 23 states, including Tennessee, guarantee at least one semester of personal finance before high school graduation, according to Next Gen Personal

For Charlie Munger, living in a relatively modest house wasn’t an accident — it was a conscious choice. Munger, the billionaire investor and longtime business partner to Warren Buffett, died on Tuesday at the age of 99. He’d previously filmed a wide-ranging interview with CNBC’s Becky Quick, which aired on Thursday evening, and discussed his

Caiaimage/chris Ryan | Istock | Getty Images There has been a wave of financial literacy legislation nationwide as states push to get personal finance classes into public schools — and Tennessee was one of the first to enact a high school mandate. Since 2013, Tennessee has required a half-semester personal finance course for high school

Vm | E+ | Getty Images In recent months, the world’s new billionaires made more of their fortunes from inheritance than from entrepreneurship, according to the UBS Billionaire Ambitions Report. It marked the first time in the nine-year history of the report that newly minted billionaires accumulated more wealth from inheritance than starting a business.

In this article UBSG-CH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Super yacht moored at South Dock, at the heart of Canary Wharf financial district on 7th February 2023 in London, United Kingdom. Mike Kemp | In Pictures | Getty Images A new wave of billionaires acquired more wealth through inheritance than entrepreneurship during the last