Tax-Efficient Investing Using Private Placement Variable Life Insurance and Annuities

JR Cohen, JS Bortnick, NL Jacob - The Journal of Wealth …, 1999 - pm-research.com
The authors start by observing that many hedge funds and managed accounts have impressive
before-tax returns, but that their returns may not be as impressive on an after-tax basis. …

Is Increasing Hedge Fund After-Tax Returns Using Private Placement Life Insurance and Annuities Still Viable?

JR Cohen, JS Bortnick - The Journal of Wealth Management, 2004 - pm-research.com
The authors start with a brief reminder of the changes experienced in the hedge fund industry
over the last 25 years to focus on a feature that has barely changed: hedge funds are …

The Section 83 (b) Election Is Alive and Well and Sometimes Indispensable

JR Cohen, JS Bortnick - Taxes, 1988 - HeinOnline
In an article in the July 1988 edition of this magazine," The Demise of the Section 83 (b)
Election," 1 it was suggested that the Tax Reform Act of 1986 has virtually nullified the Section …

Efficacy and safety of COVID-19 convalescent plasma in hospitalized patients: a randomized clinical trial

…, I Gendlina, C Sheridan, A Bortnick… - JAMA internal …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance There is clinical equipoise for COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) use in
patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Objective To determine the safety and efficacy of CCP …

Association of inflammatory, lipid and mineral markers with cardiac calcification in older adults

AE Bortnick, TM Bartz, JH Ix, M Chonchol, A Reiner… - Heart, 2016 - heart.bmj.com
Objective Calcification of the aortic valve and adjacent structures involves inflammatory, lipid
and mineral metabolism pathways. We hypothesised that circulating biomarkers reflecting …

[HTML][HTML] Homophilic Dscam interactions control complex dendrite morphogenesis

ME Hughes, R Bortnick, A Tsubouchi, P Bäumer… - Neuron, 2007 - cell.com
Alternative splicing of the Drosophila gene Dscam results in up to 38,016 different receptor
isoforms proposed to interact by isoform-specific homophilic binding. We report that Dscam …

Ambulatory robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy: safety and feasibility study

R Mehrazin, E Bortnick, R Say, JS Winoker - Urology, 2020 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility and safety of performing robotic-assisted laparoscopic
partial nephrectomy (RAPN) as outpatient surgery in patients with renal masses. …

Importance of different pathways of cellular cholesterol efflux

PG Yancey, AE Bortnick, G Kellner-Weibel… - … , and vascular biology, 2003 - Am Heart Assoc
The removal of excess free cholesterol from cells by HDL or its apolipoproteins is important
for maintaining cellular cholesterol homeostasis. This process is most likely compromised in …

Long-lived bone marrow plasma cells are induced early in response to T cell-independent or T cell-dependent antigens

A Bortnick, I Chernova, WJ Quinn… - The Journal of …, 2012 - journals.aai.org
The signals required to generate long-lived plasma cells remain unresolved. One widely cited
model posits that long-lived plasma cells derive from germinal centers (GCs) in response …

[HTML][HTML] Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in children and adolescents with GATA2-related myelodysplastic syndrome

R Bortnick, M Wlodarski, V de Haas… - Bone marrow …, 2021 - nature.com
GATA2 deficiency is a heterogeneous multi-system disorder characterized by a high risk of
developing myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and myeloid leukemia. We analyzed the …