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Qualified Charitable Distributions: A Tax-Efficient Way to Give
Author: Reema Bounajem, JD As the end of 2026 approaches, it’s a good time to review charitable giving strategies and any required minimum distributions (RMDs) that still need to be taken from IRAs. For individuals age 70 ½ or older, a Qualified Charitable...
Buyer Beware – What Retirement Communities May Not Tell You
As the population of older adults in the United States continues to increase, more and more seniors are moving to some sort of retirement...
Reasons for a Health Care Directive for Adult Children
“Plans are nothing; planning is everything” - Dwight D. Eisenhower Starting with the first call you receive from the nurse’s office...
Establishing Trusts to Create Opportunities for the Next Generation
“When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson For many families, the transfer of wealth...
The Value in Using a Corporate Trustee
Making the right choice in a trustee is critical to the ultimate success of your estate plan. You want to be confident that in your...
Ingram’s Magazine lists Great Plains among the best in Kansas City
Every year Ingram’s Magazine publishes a list of the Top Wealth Management firms in the Kansas City, Missouri area. We’re proud to be...
Financial Times counts Great Plains among leading financial advisors in South Dakota
Financial Times just published an article on the sudden flurry of attention to South Dakota’s tax laws. Who better to explain the in’s and...
Thinking Bigger Business asks Steve Soden about retirement crisis
Almost 30 percent of households with owners over the age of 55 have no retirement savings. Crazy to think, right? Thinking Bigger Business...
Bill Lenker Included in Sioux Falls Business Journal’s ‘Movers and Shakers’
The Sioux Falls Business Journal featured the recent hiring of Bill Lenker as a Regional Account Executive in our South Dakota branch. The...
New hire’s wealth of experience will help grow the Sioux Falls Location
Great Plains Trust and Asset Management Announces Hire of William Lenker -February 3, 2016 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Great Plains Trust and...
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