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If you want to ensure that your finances are secure and in place to be ahead in 2019, this interview with Christine Benz can assist you with just that. Christine is the Director of Personal Finance for Morningstar and is the author of several personal finance books. She knows how to tactfully manage taxes and how to get your portfolio out of aggressive and detrimental positions. If you want to start off this next year with a well-organized portfolio by making educated tax-deductible decisions, listen in on this episode of Better Money Decisions with your host and financial advisor, Kate Stalter.      Show Highlights:    Things people need to do to wrap up 2018 and jumpstart 2019  Ways to improve your portfolio  Properly managing IRA accounts  Strategies for tax law holdings and gains  Working with wash sale rules  Why capital gains distributions within mutual funds can be a tax trap  Meeting redemptions from departing sale holders  Step up in cost basis to account for tax distributions  How inheriting money