Amy Feldman

Recent Articles by Amy Feldman

May 27, 2010

Goldman Sachs Goes After Your Retirement Money

As Goldman Sachs (GS) fights an SEC lawsuit accusing it of misleading investors, it is trying to persuade more Americans to trust it with their retirement money. To ...

April 15, 2010

Surprise, You've Been Disinherited

There's another possible unintended consequence of the estate tax hiatus: accidentally disinheriting your heirs. That's because one traditional way of writing wills ...

April 15, 2010

Mind the Estate Tax Gap

For some time, people have been making morbid jokes about bumping off their rich relatives in 2010, a year that has no federal estate tax. The George W. Bush-era law ...

March 25, 2010

Taxing Relationships

As tax time nears, people and their accountants approach each other warily. When clients lay bare their financial secrets—telling their accountants about investment ...

February 24, 2010

The Road to Reinvention

A writers' strike. A pink slip. The death of loved ones. For Marla Ginsburg, Todd Morris, and Kate Curran, these things sparked near-complete reinventions of their ...

February 10, 2010

Helping Nonprofits Raise Money Like Goldman Does

As an investment banker at Goldman Sachs (GS), Charles "Chuck" Harris helped raise billions of dollars for companies. Now the retired partner, 58, is happy if he ...

January 20, 2010

Philanthropy: Rethinking How to Give

When disaster strikes, as it has in Haiti, Americans dig into their pockets and give. While such generosity is unquestionably a good thing in a terrible time, few ...

January 6, 2010

Tax Strategies for the Newly Self-Employed

It used to be that the vast majority of people worked in staff jobs. But in a tough economy, the number of independent contractors, temps, part-timers, and freelancers...

December 29, 2009

How Good Is Your 401(k)?

Americans increasingly rely on their 401(k) plans for retirement, yet typically understand little about how their plans work, or how they compare with offerings at ...

December 16, 2009

Global Real Estate: A Tougher Market

Anyone considering an investment in international real estate today is bound to do so with at least a twinge of regret. After a dismal year, the S&P Global Property ...