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Private Credit: What High-Net-Worth Families Need to Know

In recent years, a subtle shift has been occurring in high-net-worth portfolios. More and more [...]

Prioritizing Long-Term Planning for Business Owners and Their Legacy During Economic Downturns

Business owners make daily decisions that profoundly impact others. The decisions you make shape the [...]

Avoiding Financial Strategy Collision Course

Implementing a financial strategy that maximizes wealth and defers taxes effectively for as long as [...]

Beyond Annual Profits: Understanding Your Business’s True Return on Investment

While many business owners meticulously track annual profits and cash flow, a crucial metric often [...]

Navigating the Delicate Dance: Communicating Your Exit Strategy to Your Management Team

As a successful business owner, you’ve navigated countless pivotal decisions, each demanding a nuanced approach. [...]

Unlock the Full Potential of Your Business with Strategic Partnerships

Any small business owner can attest that the journey is filled with challenges, triumphs, and [...]

The Benefits of a Delaware Statutory Trust for Real Estate Investments

As wealth managers, preserving and growing wealth requires carefully selecting the right strategies to meet [...]

Are You Prepared for the 2025 Sunset of Estate Tax Exemption Limits?

As wealth managers, we see firsthand the importance of strategic financial planning, especially for high-net-worth [...]

What’s Causing Chaos in Homeowners’ Insurance?

This post was authored with Hanna Ogle of Watkins Insurance Group. In recent months, we’ve [...]

The Role of Insurance in Estate Planning

Estate planning is a crucial part of ensuring your assets are managed and distributed as [...]

Building Wealth Management Relationships for Family

More often than not, wealth management extends beyond an individual. When selecting a wealth manager, [...]

On Course Articles

Preparing Your Wealth for Possible Tax Reform

As conversations around potential tax reforms continue — especially concerning capital gains, estate taxes, and [...]

Enhancing Wealth Management Experiences Through Innovation

When it comes to managing your financial success, innovation is essential. A skilled wealth manager [...]

The Value of Alternative Investments for High-Net-Worth Investors

Bolstering the diversification of your portfolio is always beneficial from the standpoint of mitigating risk [...]

Safeguarding Your Financial Plan Through Market Downturns & Life’s Surprises

In the world of investing, market volatility is a certainty. Economic cycles impact financial markets, [...]

Navigating Financial Uncertainties with Resilient, Long-Term Wealth Plans

can shift almost impulsively. Constructing a long-term wealth plan that can withstand these uncertainties requires [...]

Understanding Election Cycles and Their Impact on Wealth and Markets

Election cycles in the U.S. are not only pivotal moments in our nation’s political history, [...]

Wealth Management and Asset Management

This article was co-authored with James Sherrard. Wealth management is a holistic approach to financial [...]

Ensuring Wealth Lasts for Generations

Many people wish to pass on the wealth they’ve built to future generations to continue [...]

Business Transition: Reasons to Plan Ahead

Successful business owners are adept at running and growing their businesses, yet many don’t stop [...]

Tax Loss Harvesting: Don’t Let a Loss Go to Waste

This article was co-authored with James Sherrard. Most people are familiar with traditional means of mitigating [...]

Defining Financial Success

While many people have an idea of what financial success looks like, they often fail [...]

Approaching Retirement: 7 Things to Consider

The sooner you lay a foundation for your retirement strategy, the better prepared you’ll be [...]

Key Considerations for Maximizing Wealth During Inflation

This article was co-authored with Bob Tabor. Long-term inflation like we’ve experienced for the past [...]

Passing on Wealth: Considering Multi Generations in Your Strategy

This article was co-authored with Jana Hovey. Thinking about how to pass along wealth to [...]

The Importance of Updating Estate Plans

For many people, estate plans are a difficult task to get around to. And once [...]

Tips for Managing a Concentrated Stock Position

There are many reasons a person may find themselves in possession of a large holding [...]

Estate Planning Isn’t Just About the Future

People often think about estate planning as a financial tool triggered by a person’s passing. [...]

How To Supercharge Your Charitable Giving

Giving back is a common and noble gesture that is fairly well engrained throughout much [...]

Gone Phishing: Cyber Criminals View Crisis as Opportunity

The more technology and digital innovation expands, the more cyber criminals will look for ways [...]

Creating Benchmarks to Better Monitor Investment Success

Market volatility in 2020 has seen unprecedented peaks, valleys, and even recovery. This has left [...]

Starting a Financial Conversation with Parents During a Crisis

Whether the circumstances are driven by a global pandemic, some other emergency, or just the [...]

Managing Wealth Through Times of Uncertainty

When addressing your wealth during periods of economic crisis, it’s important to recognize two facets [...]

Could You Benefit from a Health Savings Account?

Health Savings Accounts were first introduced in 2003 and have quickly grown in popularity as [...]

Does the New SECURE Act Affect Your Retirement Strategies?

Last December, the SECURE Act was passed with the objective of increasing access and participation [...]

Market and Economic Reviews

Second Quarter 2025 Market & Economic Review

As the second quarter of 2025 drew to a close, markets remained cautious amid a [...]

First Quarter 2025 Market and Economic Review

As the first quarter of 2025 closes, markets have served up a complex mix of [...]

Fourth Quarter 2024 Market and Economic Review

With many elements creating different levels of push-and-pull influences on investment markets and economies, the [...]

Third Quarter 2024 Market and Economic Review

For the first time since the first quarter of 2022, there’s a different economic story [...]

Second Quarter 2024 Market and Economic Review

It may sound a bit like a broken record, but the primary forces driving our [...]

First Quarter 2024 Market and Economic Review

If there’s a theme that reflects the first quarter of 2024, it would certainly revolve [...]

Videos

2025 Wealth Management Symposium

In our 2025 Wealth Management Symposium, Josh Gideon leads our executive team of Brooks Slaughter, [...]