The Emotional Currency of Wealth Transfer: Navigating Complex Conversations

Money is emotional. Within families, differing values, financial literacy levels, and expectations around inheritance can create tension and avoidance. As a result, family conversations about money and wealth transfer often remain superficial......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Guest Feature - Dissing the Dollar

The Through Line: The U.S. dollar has underperformed many of its currency peers this year – most visibly during times of interim market stress. This unusual occurrence has led some to question the greenback’s traditional role as a safe-haven port......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Climbing the Wall of Worry

The Through Line: Ironically, it seems the more fraught the short-term headlines become, the higher markets want to tiptoe. For the average investor, the sheer quantity of shifting variables can understandably prompt “freeze or flight” reactions......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Consumers – The (not so) Little Engine that Could

The Through Line: For months, the disconnect between sturdy economic data and steadily weakening sentiment readings has perplexed those trying to decode the market’s long-term path......

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Why you need to include your digital assets in your estate plan

Many people think of estate planning in terms of traditional assets like investment portfolios, homes, artwork, vehicles and the family cottage. But as our lives become increasingly digitized, it’s important to include online assets, too....

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A path forward: 2025 trends in sustainability

Earth Day is fast approaching, and although the planet is coming off its hottest year on record, the discourse on sustainability has never been more adversarial....

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Inheriting family wealth: How to prepare

For many high-net-worth individuals with children, amassing wealth may be the easy part; successfully passing down that wealth to their children is where things can get difficult......

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Global Markets Commentary: The great rotation

Worried headlines were the order of the day during the first quarter of 2025. Words and deeds of the new U.S. administration produced many heavy hearts and unpleasant surprises......

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The smart investor’s guide to reducing taxes and growing wealth

A smart tax plan doesn’t just maximize your registered accounts, it structures your finances in a way that optimizes every dollar you earn on the road to retirement – and beyond......

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