Giving Smarter While Helping Your Estate
Bear Market Provides Boost to a Little-Known Strategy; a Record Low Hurdle Rate
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Feb. 10, 2009, Wall Street Journal — Investors aren't in a giving mood these days. But the deepening recession presents a rare opportunity for some people: By setting up a special trust, wealthy donors can seed favorite charities, pass money to heirs and shelter potential growth from taxes.
Under the strategy, called a "charitable lead trust," you can transfer assets — cash, stocks and artwork among them — to a trust for a set term of years. Each year, payments are made from the trust to a designated charity or charities. After the trust's term expires, what's left goes to your heirs. By moving the assets out of your estate, the strategy also shelters their potential appreciation from estate taxes.
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