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If you are—or should be—concerned about future estate taxes, you can reduce your exposure by making tax-free gifts to your children or grandchildren each year using the gift-tax annual exclusion. Here's the scoop on how to take advantage of the special rules surrounding 529 plans for extra estate-tax savings. Read More

 

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09/30: I don't know which way the stock market is headed. It went down (big-time) yesterday. It could go up today. By the time you and your child start paying college tuition bills, you can bet the market will swing up and down hundreds if not thousands of times. But here are some things I do know: 1) Back in the late 1990s, 529 plans were criticized for being "too conservative." So they sta... Read More

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