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More advisers are turning to donor-advised funds

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Popularity is rising among philanthropically inclined investors hoping to offset capital gains taxes.

Donor-advised funds, which provide clients with an easy way to give to their favorite causes, experienced a sharp pickup in popularity during 2013. Advisers have turned to them as a way to help philanthropically inclined investors offset capital gains taxes, particularly in light of the American Tax

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