How Will the One, Big, Beautiful Tax Bill Impact Markets?

One of the opportunities we highlighted early in the year in our 2025 Outlook was a big tax bill that boosted corporate profits, similar to 2017. We never believed it would be as large as the 2017 tax bill’s boost on profits—after all, you can only cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% …

More than Just Health Insurance: Understanding and Leveraging Your Employee Benefits

When most people consider a job offer, they tend to focus on one thing: salary. But while your paycheck is important, it’s only one piece of the puzzle. Your full compensation package also includes your employee benefits—retirement accounts, insurance, personal time off, and much more.

4 Tips for Navigating Uncharted Financial Waters

Whether you’re an experienced investor or new to the market, 2025 has brought an unprecedented degree of simultaneous market momentum and uncertainty. The first half of the year saw both sharp market swings and heightened volatility, leaving many investors feeling like they’re navigating un …

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More than Just Health Insurance: Understanding and Leveraging Your Employee Benefits

When most people consider a job offer, they tend to focus on one thing: salary. But while your paycheck is important, it’s only one piece of the puzzle. Your full compensation package also includes your employee benefits—retirement accounts, insurance, personal time off, and much more.

Customizing Your Investment Portfolio: The Role of Bespoke Solutions

Buying a suit off the rack and wearing it “as is” can work. Buying a suit off the rack and tailoring it will likely give you a better fit and overall look. But there is nothing like a bespoke suit made just for you by a professional tailor. You can get the best fit possible …

Crisis Management Financial Planning: Preparing for Unexpected Events

What Is Financial Planning and Why Does It Matter in a Crisis? Financial planning begins with a thorough analysis of your short- and long-term financial situation, including all sources of income, your current spending patterns and debt, and your plans for the future. Then it guides how to …

2025 Calendar: Key Tasks & Financial Dates

2025 Calendar: Key Tasks & Financial Dates

Tackle 2025 with this month-by-month financial task list. We’ve also included important dates so you won’t miss any key deadlines.

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5 Steps to Selling Your Business

Wondering how to sell your business? We’ve broken down the steps you should take when creating an exit plan and ultimately moving forward with selling your business.

Asset Protection Strategies: Safeguarding Your Wealth from Claims and Creditors

Understanding Asset Protection Safeguarding your wealth is as important as building it. Even if you make all the right decisions in accumulating and growing wealth, neglecting to protect it can ruin your financial plan. What Is Asset Protection? Asset protection is a set of legal strategies …

Life Insurance Strategies for Business Owners

Owning a business can be like parenting. You’ve likely experienced many sleepless nights and spent a countless amount of energy on your “baby.” Like parenting, being a business owner can be an enriching journey and make life worth the trip.

Business Succession Planning Checklist

Business Succession Planning Checklist

You remember your first day of business. But what about your last day? Succession planning is more complex than it may seem. Our guide walks you through the details.

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Tax Planning in Retirement: Strategies to Help Minimize Taxes When You Retire

The transition from employment to retirement can be complex. For decades, employees and business owners received either a regular paycheck or earnings from self-employment. Suddenly, that will slow or stop. Not only will cash inflow stop, but you will also be taking money out of all these a …

Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount (IRMAA) Worksheet

IRMAA, or the income-related monthly adjustment amount, is an extra amount you need to pay on top of Medicare Part B and Part D premiums based on your income. It’s never too early to start planning for these additional payments. This guide will help you identify some IRMAA planning points a …

How to Go from Making Money to Making Money Happen in Retirement

It’s a concept that is all too important as 4 in 10 Americans are at risk of running out of money in retirement. The landscape changes when you retire. Your goal now is to conserve, grow, maintain and otherwise hold onto what you already have. 

Medicare and Managing Health Care Costs in Retirement

Medicare and Managing Health Care Costs in Retirement

Health care costs in retirement aren't going anywhere. Naturally, as our bodies get older, it costs more to keep them running. Let's look at the parts of this vital program and how it plays a part in your financial plan.

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Peanut Butter Approach: Maximize Your Charitable Impact Through Strategic Philanthropy

The so-called “Peanut Butter Manifesto” written by a Yahoo! Executive in 2006 gave us a term that hasn’t worn thin yet. The “Peanut Butter Approach” is a derisive term used in business to describe spreading anything – money, energy, time – too far and too thin to be effective or useful. 

The Role of Technology in Modern Charitable Giving Strategies

The digital revolution has affected nearly every activity we engage in. Philanthropy is no exception. Although sophisticated tech solutions have been slower to reach the nonprofit world than some other sectors, their arrival was inevitable. Today, they can help make charitable giving a simp …

Charitable Giving: Helping to Ensure Compliance and Maximize Impact

The Growing Role of Philanthropy in Wealth Planning People today are more interested than ever in finding ways to align their long-term financial goals and their personal values. According to a report from the consultancy Altrata, charitable contributions from ultra-high net worth individua …

A Guide to Gifting to Your Heirs

A Guide to Gifting to Your Heirs

Gifting to your loved ones now or posthumously each carries their own positives and negatives as they relate to your estate plan, taxes, your goals and your legacy.

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Compounding Wealth (and Wisdom): The Power of Compound Interest

No single strategy works forever, but you also don’t want to change your approach every time the markets shift slightly. How does investing work – not just for a season or a year or two, but for a lifetime? Time is a major factor when it comes to successful investing.

How to Make Charitable Giving Part of Your Financial Plan

COVID-19 caused an economic shockwave that we’ll feel for a long time. Nonprofits, from large global networks to the local churches, have been hit hard, too. In a recent survey of 110 nonprofits, 80% of them said revenue had fallen across the board.

7 Economic Myths Busted

By Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist We’ve been hearing many of the same myths over and over, yet we don’t think they are the big worry that the media and many make them out to be. These are legitimate concerns and have many investors worried, but we think the chances of them becoming l …

When Shifting Goals Mean Shifting Plans

When Shifting Goals Mean Shifting Plans

Your financial plan shouldn't look the same at 55 as it did when you were 35, right? So how do you know when it's time to adjust your plan?

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How Will the One, Big, Beautiful Tax Bill Impact Markets?

One of the opportunities we highlighted early in the year in our 2025 Outlook was a big tax bill that boosted corporate profits, similar to 2017. We never believed it would be as large as the 2017 tax bill’s boost on profits—after all, you can only cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% …

4 Tips for Navigating Uncharted Financial Waters

Whether you’re an experienced investor or new to the market, 2025 has brought an unprecedented degree of simultaneous market momentum and uncertainty. The first half of the year saw both sharp market swings and heightened volatility, leaving many investors feeling like they’re navigating un …

Midyear Market Outlook 2025 Webinar : Uncharted Waters

The economy has weathered volatility and uncertainty to start 2025, with the ongoing bull market continuing its run and the labor market staying strong. But plenty of headwinds remain as we head into the second half of the year. 

Midyear Market Outlook 2025

Midyear Market Outlook 2025

The economy has weathered volatility and uncertainty to start 2025, with the ongoing bull market continuing its run and the labor market staying strong. But plenty of headwinds remain as we head into the second half of the year.

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Carson Wealth Expands Montana Presence with the Addition of True North Financial

Carson Wealth announced the expansion of its Montana presence through a strategic partnership with Billings-based True North Financial, now known as Carson Wealth | True North Financial. This collaboration establishes Carson’s second Billings location. The six-person team, led by mana …

Carson Wealth Expands Presence in Three States

Carson Wealth today announced its acquisition of three Carson Wealth locations in Hagerstown, Maryland, Atlanta, Georgia and Johnson City, Tennessee. The move expands Carson Wealth’s footprint in the East, strengthening the firm’s position in the wealth management market. Led by …

Congratulations to Our 2024 Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisors  

Carson Wealth announced that four of the firm’s wealth advisors were named to the Forbes 2024 Best-in-State Wealth Advisors list. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding financial advisors who have demonstrated excellence in their field and are committed to providing exceptional servi …