Episode #323

20/20 Money Episode #323 –  How Direct Index Portfolio Construction Can Offset Taxes On a Practice Sale with Peter Lazaroff, CFA, CFP®

January 13, 2025

Welcome to another Episode of 20/20 Money!

My guest on today’s show is Peter Lazaroff, CFA, CFP®, Chief Investment Officer at Plancorp, host of The Long Term Investor podcast, and the author of the book Making Money Simple.

Peter joins me on the show to talk about an investment approach that has been around for a long time but is starting to become more prevalent for investors: direct indexing. We talk about what direct indexing is through an abridged story on the evolution of investment vehicles for investors, some of the considerations and tradeoffs, how a direct indexing approach can minimize a practice owner’s tax bill in the year that they sell their practice, and why an index investor should be, at the very least, doing their own due diligence on a direct indexing advisory firm & manager to complement their already-sound investment philosophy.

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