We describe a Tax-Aware Defensive Equity Long-Short (TADELS) strategy, including its construction and pre-tax and after-tax performance. TADELS closely replicates the pre-tax performance of a similar tax-agnostic strategy and has the potential to achieve a meaningful tax benefit for a taxable...

Preservation and transfer of wealth to future generations is one of the central financial goals for most high-net-worth families. In this study, using a stylized theoretical model and Monte-Carlo simulations, we quantify the benefits of income and estate tax planning for growing wealth over...