The Permanent $15 Million Estate Tax Exemption: What It Means for Family Offices
Explore how the permanent $15 million estate tax exemption impacts family offices and wealth planning strategies.

World Property Journal – January 2017
The world is beating a path to Palm Beach County’s door, at
least the world of hedge funds. This is according to Kelly Smallridge,
president and CEO of the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County,
Florida.
The reasons
for this new-found affection go beyond South Florida’s mild weather and lack of
a state income tax. These attributes are not new. But high taxes in the
Northeast, as well as, more recently, at the federal level, have kick-started
the migration south for many financial firms, but especially hedge funds, who
only need phones and computers to set up shop anywhere in the world.
Palm Beach
County hasn’t been the only South Florida county to welcome the titans of the
financial industry of late, although the others probably see fewer than South
Florida’s northernmost county.
The full article is available here: World Property Journal

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