CARES Act for Small Business

The expansive coronavirus-related stimulus package signed into law last week – the CARES Act – has in it several relief measures for small business owners, ranging from various loan programs to tax credits and deadline extensions.

Our broader advanced planning team has compiled a one-page overview of CARES Act programs and benefits so that you can easily review and compare them against each other for planning purposes. Designed with a high-level approach in mind, this visual resource can help you walk through strategic decisions, understand the options available, and determine where to take more specific next steps.

If you are not a business owner, we would encourage you to share this with those you know that may benefit from this very important information.


Mitch
 

Mitchell Bloom is President and founder of Bloom Financial, LLC. Bloom is a boutique financial planning firm. It specializes in transactional tax planning. It also focuses on retirement income planning, estate planning, and investment management. The company prides itself on its cornerstone, “Financial Advice in Plain English.” With over 36 years of helping 100’s of clients with retirement planning, Mitch has taught classes for some of the largest institutions in Colorado. Over the last three years, modernization of financial services technology has streamlined and simplified client financial planning facilitation. It has also expanded outreach capacity, planning options, and reporting capabilities. This new partnership best helps individuals and families with highly appreciated businesses, stock, crypto, art, CRE, and rental properties. It also serves highly compensated executives and business owners. The Bloom Financial/FourStar partnership increases clients’ reach in the ever-evolving world of financial planning breakthroughs, tactics, and tools. The firm consults industry economists in addition to different viewpoints of The Capital Market Assumptions 10-year Outlook. For example, the decade starting in 2024, assumptions for U.S. equities range from Vanguard’s 4.2%-6.2% to BNY Mellon’s 7.4%1, 2. These numbers are well below the market average. President, Mitchell Bloom said, “the standard 60/40 model portfolio may be facing a tough decade ahead. One of our goals is to improve clients’ chances of investment success using diversified alternative investments. We get excited teaching clients about our Core-Satellite investment philosophy commonly used by institutional investors and universities like Yale and Harvard. For clients who qualify, we tilt their Satellite portfolios towards alt funds. These invest in start-ups, angel investments, private equity, hedge funds, and real estate.” Bloom’s mission is to help clients become liberated from the stress and anxiety of understanding taxes, markets, retirement, and the transfer of wealth to the next generation. Over the last 36 years, Bloom has developed a nationwide team of trustees, tax attorneys, CPAs, business brokers, certified financial planners. They also work with insurance auditors, art appraisers, custodian banks, third party service providers, and investment advisory firms. FourStar Wealth Advisors is a Registered Investment Advisor firm headquartered in Chicago. FourStar Wealth is an independent firm without the conflicts or restrictions of the old school firms. We believe success in achieving financial goals starts with a comprehensive wealth strategy. We help you define what is most important to you and formulate the strategies suited for your needs This applies to whether you are accumulating wealth or investing for income, solidifying your retirement plan, or devising a distribution approach that meets your lifestyle and legacy goals. Bloom is a Registered Investment Advisor Representative with FourStar Wealth Advisors of Chicago and is partnered with Buckingham Strategic Partners for portfolio management, financial planning, and back-office support. Founded in strategic investing that is scientific, consistent, and above all, based on decades of research and innovation. Buckingham Strategic Partners Investment Committee has included noted academics Dr. Harry Markowitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1990, and Dr. Meir Statman, one of the pioneers in the field of behavioral finance. Passion and integrity are at the heart of the firm’s values, actions, and culture.