8/31/2026 2:50:54 PM The ID-SMA Is No Longer a Concept — It Is a Robust Structure By Henry Bregstein For a few years, the insurance-dedicated separately managed account (ID-SMA) was a structure that many advisors had heard about but few...
8/17/2026 6:14:01 PM The Sunset Is Gone. Income Tax Remains: The PPLI – PPVA Solution. By Henry Bregstein For the better part of a decade, every estate planning conversation my colleagues had with a high-net-worth family started with the same...
7/21/2026 2:03:51 PM IRS Fixes the ‘1035 Exchange Trap’: What Life Settlement Funds and PPLI Users Need to Know Now By Henry Bregstein Mitchell Fagen The US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have just finalized regulations fixing a problem that...
7/7/2026 10:07:48 AM What Matters Now in Private Markets: Eight Takeaways from SuperReturn 2026 By Thomas Laurer Ryan Hansen Each June, SuperReturn International brings together much of the global private markets industry in Berlin, where GPs, LPs, advisers and...