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Financial Planning for Family Businesses: Understanding How Family Businesses Are Unique and How to Achieve Better Financial Planning Outcomes
When it comes to the financial planning needs of family-owned businesses, family businesses and their stakeholders have unique planning needs and distinctive financial planning opportunities that should be identified and carefully taken into consideration both by the...

Tax Planning: What to Expect with a CARES Act RMD in 2020
By Brighton Samet, Moneta Tax Planning Consultant Under guidance from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), anyone who already took a required minimum distribution (RMD) in 2020 from certain retirement accounts had the opportunity to roll those funds back into a...

Moneta Trust in the News
Start spreading the news, Moneta has its own trust company! This move provides our advisors with tools to more efficiently pass clients’ net worth onto the next generation and furthers our commitment to fiduciary practices and independence. Below, we laid out a few of...

Celeste Headlee: How to Have Conversations that Matter
Empathy is not just some touchy-feely emotion. It’s a survival skill. That’s how award-winning journalist and best-selling author Celeste Headlee described it while kicking off the 2021 Moneta University Speaker Series with a webinar on “How to Have Conversations that...

Moneta named Top Workplace for ninth consecutive year
As Moneta’s national footprint grows, so do the awards. After eight straight years of being recognized as a Top Workplace in St. Louis from 2014-2021, Moneta was named among the “Top Workplaces USA” award winners for the second straight year in 2022. Moneta also...

Moneta Charitable Foundation Partners With Local Nonprofits In COVID Relief Plan
The global pandemic left more than its fair share of scars in 2020, but local communities are healing together in 2021. People and organizations rallying to help each other in times of need stands as one of the major positive results from the test COVID gave us....

A Full-Blown Assault on the Ukraine jolts Markets and Commodities
Aoifinn Devitt | Chief Investment Officer Chris Kamykowski, CFA, CFP® | Head of Investment Strategy and Research As the Russia/Ukraine situation took a tragic turn overnight, governments are jostling to respond to the most blatant act of aggression in Europe since...

Preparing to File Your Taxes
By Brighton Samet, Moneta Tax Planning Consultant This is the time of year that you should be receiving copies of all your necessary tax documents. Besides the normal W-2s and 1099s, this year many taxpayers will also receive Letter 6475 (about the third round of...

Frying Pan into the Fire: Geopolitical risks taunt already unsettled markets
Aoifinn Devitt | Chief Investment Officer Chris Kamykowski, CFA, CFP® | Head of Investment Strategy and Research In mid-January, a headline in the Wall Street Journal screamed that “Omicron (had) killed certitude.” The opinion-writer was right; in the first few weeks...

One of the Largest Spending Bills Ever is Enacted as IRS Issues Second Round of Stimulus Payments
By Brighton Samet, Moneta Tax Planning Consultant The IRS and the Treasury Department began issuing a second round of Economic Impact Payments, often referred to as stimulus payments. The direct deposit payments may take several days to post to individual accounts....