Why More Investors are Donating Stock to Charity

by Chana R. Schoenberger As the stock market reaches new heights after the presidential election, more investors are looking at their portfolios to see which securities have gone up the most-and then donating them to charity. “We’ve seen an uptick in charitable giving using appreciated stock,” says Paul Stark, a wealth and estate-planning strategist at SunTrust Banks Inc. That uptick…