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Estate Planning

Tax Law Changes for 2023

{2 minutes to read} In the beginning of the year, we try and create a communication to all of our friends and clients, and people we know, about what changes are taking place from a tax perspective. There are lots of changes every January, and this year is no exception. 

Each year, […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2023-04-24T16:25:27+00:00April 4th, 2023|Blog, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Tax Planning|0 Comments
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Estate Planning — The Use it or Lose it Scenario

{3 minutes to read}  Today, I want to reflect on some of the issues about estate planning based upon our current estate tax rules. Under the Trump Administration, the estate tax rules were changed very liberally to allow people to give away a tremendous amount of money, creating great opportunities to transfer wealth to the […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2023-04-04T14:55:35+00:00March 30th, 2023|Blog, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Tax Planning|0 Comments
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Insurance Planning: a Possible Tool and Strategy to Overcome Inflation

{4 minutes to read}  At the time of this blog, we are heading toward the end of 2022, and what was a financially challenging year for people, especially as inflation has reared its head. People are concerned about the ever-increasing cost of living as things have gone up quite a bit in the […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2023-03-23T17:33:26+00:00March 14th, 2023|Blog, Estate Planning, Insurance Planning, Retirement Planning|0 Comments
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Family Love Letter – Estate Planning

{3 minutes to read}  Today, I want to talk about estate planning. Recently, I was introduced to a service that we can provide, called the Family Love Letter. It struck me as being so powerful and so helpful for people that I wanted to offer it up to our clients who would benefit from it.

Before […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2023-02-10T15:56:31+00:00January 25th, 2023|Estate Planning|0 Comments
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A New Kind of Life Insurance

{5 minutes to read}  Today, I want to talk about a new life insurance product that has recently come out called a 12 Pay Whole Life Contract. In the illustration attached, you’re going to see $100,000 contributions going in for a 45-year-old individual for 12 years. This is a permanent life insurance policy that can […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2022-12-15T11:46:41+00:00December 15th, 2022|Blog, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Insurance Planning|0 Comments
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The Permission Slip

{3 minutes to read} With all the volatility in the market and a lot of fear on the street with recession and inflation, some basic financial planning concepts may serve to help some of the readers today.

There is a concept I learned about 20 years ago called The Permission Slip, built around the idea of […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2022-10-17T16:23:32+00:00October 17th, 2022|Blog, Estate Planning, Retirement Planning|0 Comments
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iCLAT Interview w/ Brad Gornt – Part 2

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Michael Fliegelman:

We are back again for Part 2 of our discussion about Roth conversions and how to offset the income tax generated by that conversion. We are here with Mr. Brad Gornto, who can help in this kind of charitable planning. And Brad, in Part 1 of our discussion, you […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2022-10-31T10:36:53+00:00October 15th, 2022|Blog, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Tax Planning|0 Comments
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iCLAT Interview w/ Brad Gornto

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Michael Fliegelman:

Previously, we discussed in detail, qualified plans — IRAs, 401(k)s, pension plans — and how these may be great tools to accumulate wealth, which is like the first chapter in financial planning. Chapter 2 is when we hit retirement age and take a distribution, and Chapter 3 is wealth […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2022-10-31T10:36:45+00:00October 1st, 2022|Blog, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Tax Planning|0 Comments
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Laddering Fixed-Rate Annuities Offers Rates that Beat Bank CDs, Plus Flexibility

{2 minutes to read}  Below is a link to an article by Ken Nuss, about retirement planning and annuities, that I wanted to share with everyone. As the article points out, this is an alternative to the traditional way of retirement planning and may be the road, less traveled, that is sometimes worth going down.

When […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2022-06-07T01:17:27+00:00May 23rd, 2022|Annuities, Blog, Estate Planning, Financial Planning|0 Comments
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The Estate Planning Landscape

{2.5 minutes to read}  Today, I want to talk about the estate planning landscape in the United States. It seems to me that, whenever a new administration comes in, there is always a potential for change. Since the prior administration increased the lifetime exemption to an amount that now equates to over $12 million per […]

Michael Fliegelman, CLU, ChFC, AEP, CLTC, RFC Founder / President, Strategic Wealth Advisors Network (631) 262-9254 Connect with me Follow me on Michael@SWANWealth.com www.SWANWealth.com Please note that the information being provided is strictly as a courtesy. Always confer with your CPA prior to attempting to take any tax deduction. Michael Fliegelman is not a CPA, nor should the contained be considered tax “advice”.

By |2022-05-11T10:00:04+00:00May 11th, 2022|Blog, Estate Planning, Financial Planning|0 Comments
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