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ClientVision

Enhance your Outlook software to help manage your client relationships and data
By Donald H. Kelley

Kelley Rating (one asterisk = lowest, five asterisks = highest):

  • Ease of navigation, design of interface and learning curve ******
  • Instructional documentation and help system ***
  • Carries out the goal of the product as advertised *****
  • Overall usefulness ****

Many professionals use Outlook as a client information database. Now, the web-based application service ClientVision 1.0 (AdviceAmerica) expands Outlook 2007 so that users have access to a whole new dimension of client information.

It increases Outlook’s data storage and organization abilities to include extensive client financial, personal and contact information. ClientVision gives users the ability to collaborate easily with the client’s other advisors, access client data, and work without the need of desktop software applications nor the support of an internal IT system.

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Qualified personal residence trusts (QPRTs) are generally not considered effective in a low interest rate environment. And these days, the Internal Revenue Code Section 7520 rate is at historic lows. Yet, QPRTs present an estate-planning opportunity to be seriously considered now because of the decline in the value of real estate during the last 18 months. The technique becomes even more attractive when the trust agreement refers to the grantor's retaining a reversionary interest.

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