Michelle Dal Buono asserts that in many cases, tax-loss harvesting investment strategies can yield equal or superior tax-saving outcomes compared to establishing complex trusts.

Michelle Dal Buono assesses that most private equity firms are still in the very early stages of implementing AI to drive operational improvements within their portfolio companies.

Michelle Dal Buono believes that AI is driving an economic transformation of a magnitude that is difficult to fully comprehend.

According to Michelle Dal Buono, weak cash distributions from private asset classes in recent years have prompted some institutional investors to reduce their allocations to private markets out of con...

Michelle Dal Buono is the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of a16z Perennial.

Michelle Dal Buono advises investors in private secondary markets to aim for direct placement on the company's capitalization table, or alternatively, to invest through a single-layer (L1) vehicle man...

Michelle Dal Buono holds the opinion that, in most cases, a company's stock that has performed well leading up to a liquidity event is likely to continue performing well post-event.

Michelle Dal Buono suggests that wealth managers have a self-serving incentive to advise clients to liquidate concentrated stock positions, as they can then charge management fees on the newly created...

Michelle Dal Buono believes the Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) tax benefit is a significant motivator for individuals to start companies in the United States.

Michelle Dal Buono asserts that a major challenge in wealth management is that legal and accounting professionals often specialize in trusts but lack the expertise to compare them against tax-loss-gen...

According to Michelle Dal Buono, the three primary elements for optimizing a personal financial situation before a liquidity event are structuring trusts and estates, making investments to offset taxe...

For a company founder, the IRS considers the cost basis of their stock to be zero, meaning 100% of the sale proceeds are considered a taxable gain.

A common estate planning strategy involves creating multiple trusts to multiply the Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) tax exemption across different entities, a technique known as "stacking".

The city of Vancouver in Canada implemented a tax on homes that were not rented out in an effort to increase the local supply of rental housing.

The United Kingdom has a 40% inheritance tax.

Italy has implemented a tax program for foreigners that offers a flat annual tax of $100,000 to $200,000 for a period of 10 to 20 years.

Recent changes to the tax code provide a significant tailwind for the data center sector by allowing taxable investors to immediately depreciate 100% of their capital expenditures.

In private company secondary markets, employees often circumvent transfer restrictions by creating a holding company (an L1 structure), transferring their shares to it, and then selling shares of the ...

The combined state and federal long-term capital gains tax rate for a founder's stock sale can be upwards of 35%, depending on their state of residence.

The federal long-term capital gains tax rate is 23.8% for individuals residing in states without a state income tax.