Making the Most of Your Charitable Donations: Understanding Charitable Giving Strategies and Your Retirement Plan

Hosted by Brian Bass, MSFS, CFP®, RICP®, AEP®, CLU®

Many people choose to make charitable contributions every year. While the goal is to help others, these donations can have significant tax advantages that you can take advantage of. Tax planning is never a simple discussion. However, being strategic with the charitable contributions you were already going to make gives you a powerful tool to reduce your taxes in very advantageous ways.

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Workshop Instructor

In this workshop Brian will detail:

  • Understanding the effects of Charitable Giving on your Taxes
  • How to time your Charitable Donations to maximize their Tax Impact
  • Ways to donate Appreciated Securities to reduce your Capital Gains taxes
  • How to use Trusts and other vehicles (such as Donor Advised Funds) for Charitable Giving
  • Ways to use your Charitable Donations to manage your Required Minimum Distributions

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Brian joined McLean to work alongside like-minded professionals who want to provide financial freedom and confidence to highly accomplished people.

After retiring from his professional baseball career, having pitched in both the minor and major leagues, Brian was drawn to the financial planning field. While working as an athlete, Brian had professionals overseeing his financial life, and he saw first-hand how that provided peace of mind. He realized how much he valued the quality advice he received and decided to follow a similar path for his post-baseball career. His experiences in baseball and passion for personal finance give Brian a unique perspective and skill set that very few advisors possess.

Brian set out to deliberately and methodically become educated on how to create and grow wealth and access it properly to fund a fulfilling retirement that lasts decades. His academic path led him to The American College of Financial Services, where he was taught by one of McLean’s Principals, Wade Pfau. Brian earned his Master of Science in Financial Services from The American College of Financial Services and has obtained several of the industry’s most revered designations since he began his career.

When an opportunity to join McLean presented itself, Brian jumped at the chance to work on the front lines of retirement income planning with some of the top thought leaders in the industry. It has been one of the best decisions he has made professionally.

When he is not ‘nerding out’ to the latest retirement planning insights, Brian loves a great round of golf, Crimson Tide football, and spending quality time with his wife Jenny and their three incredible children.

Education

  • Master of Science in Financial Services, The American College of Financial Services

Professional Certifications & Associations

  • CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP®)
  • Retirement Income Certified Professional® (RICP®)
  • Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU®)
  • Accredited Estate Planner (AEP®)

Greatest Professional Satisfaction

Being able to sit across from a client and reveal that their hard work and the strategies we employed have gotten them to the point that their ideal retirement lifestyle is within reach.

Greatest Personal Satisfaction

Watching my children work through issues and then seeing the joy on their faces when they figure out a solution and thrive.

Bob is responsible for McLean’s investment strategy. In this role, he ensures that McLean stays at the cutting edge of financial innovation, and helps clients understand how to make the most of their investments within the broader framework of their retirement income plan.

Bob grew up around finance, and he started his career with Dimensional Fund Advisors. While there, he oversaw a data analysis program for financial advisors and helped them think through how to use data to illustrate their client discussions – including when not to use the numbers and focus on the intuition behind the numbers. Following Dimensional Fund Advisors, Bob joined inStream Solutions to help them develop one of the most complete financial planning analytics tools on the market.

Bob joined the McLean team to continue working to understand how investments fit in the broader retirement income paradigm, and to have a chance to work directly with clients to help them develop a more complete understanding of how everything fits together.

Bob grew up in Hanover, NH, and now lives in Portland, ME with his wife and two daughters.

Education

  • B.A. Government, Connecticut College

Professional Affiliations & Designations

  • Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

Total Return

How to Create Your Retirement Income Plan

Designing Your Asset Allocation

Sustainable Spending from Investments Main Page

Ongoing Investment Management Main Page

Why The Markets Work Main Page

Risk Wrap

How to Create Your Retirement Income Plan

Understanding and Interpreting Annuities and Annuity Contracts Main Page

Annuities and Risk Pooling

Designing Your Asset Allocation

Sustainable Spending from Investments Main Page

Time Segmentation

How to Create Your Retirement Income Plan

Designing and Implementing Your Bond Ladder Main Page

Understanding and Using Time Segmentation Strategies Main Page

How Do Bonds Work? Making Sense Of Bond Returns

Managing Inflation In Your Retirement Income Plan

Income Protection

How to Create Your Retirement Income Plan

Understanding and Interpreting Annuities and Annuity Contracts Main Page

Annuities and Risk Pooling

Developing a Social Security Claiming Strategy Main Page

Managing Inflation In Your Retirement Income Plan

Creating Your Retirement Plan

How to Create Your Retirement Income Plan

Making the Most of Your Charitable Donations: Understanding Charitable Giving Strategies and Your Retirement Plan

Medicare Decisions and Health Expenses for Retirees 2024

Long-Term Care Planning Main Page

Developing a Social Security Claiming Strategy Main Page

Understanding Retirement Expense Dynamics: Expense Categories and Risks

Living in Retirement

The Vanishing Work – Retirement Threshold

On Your Own in Retirement: Special Considerations for Singles, Divorcees and Widows

Family Dynamics and Your Retirement Plan – At the Intersection of Love and Money

Optimizing Your Other Portfolio: Maximizing Returns from Your New Time Affluence in Retirement

Housing Decisions for Retirement Main Page

Non Financial Side of Retirement Main Page

Health in Retirement

Long-Term Care Planning Main Page

How to Manage the Physical, Behavioral, and Mental Health Risks to Your Retirement

Medicare Decisions and Health Expenses for Retirees 2024

Health Risk in Retirement: How to Think About It and What to Do About It

Investment Deep Dive

Why The Markets Work Main Page

Taming the Factor Zoo – Making Sense of Investment Risk Factors

Designing Your Asset Allocation

Sustainable Spending from Investments Main Page

How Do Bonds Work? Making Sense Of Bond Returns

Understanding and Using ESG Investments

Factor Investing: Research and Practice Main Page

Ongoing Investment Management Main Page

Finding the Right Balance on Rebalancing

Retirement Income Challenge

RIC – DAY 1

RIC – DAY 2

RIC – DAY 3

RIC – DAY 4