New Ways to Minimize Taxes on Your Investments—and Why It’s Especially Important Now

For those who don’t, there are many strategies for reducing their tax bills, and increasingly, some newer ones for harvesting capital losses to offset taxable capital gains. Exchange-traded funds are inherently tax efficient and worthy options for many individual investors. For instance, the $1.5 trillion ETF generally doesn’t distribute taxable capital gains because of its indexed ETF structure, although it does distribute taxable dividends.