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New Retirees May Be In The “Sweet Spot” For This Other Tax-Harvesting Strategy

2017-12-17 19_40_09-Free stock photo of beverage, breakfast, close-upAt this time of year much is written about the benefits of tax-loss harvesting. Finding losers to sell, however, may be a particularly difficult undertaking this year given the market’s performance. Instead of tax-loss harvesting, today’s article looks at “another tax-harvesting strategy [that] looks to be better suited to this year’s buoyant market conditions: tax-gain harvesting.” Why would investors want to pre-emptively realize a gain, what “small subset of the investing public” would benefit from this strategy – and why might new retirees be in its “sweet spot”? CLICK HERE.