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Navigating Tidal Forces
We are thrilled to announce our 2025 Capital Markets Forecast. In this annual research piece, we seek to identify realistic market expectations over the next year and align them with opportunities we foresee to achieve portfolio goals.
How do we strive to protect clients from cyberattacks and fraud?
Our CEO, Chief Compliance Officer, and Director of Technology offer tips on cybersecurity and protecting personal information.
How Can You Make Family Business Transitions Harmonious?
The same principles you used to develop a competitive advantage in your business can be applied to your family to preserve harmony and successfully transition ownership of your company. Learn more in Mark Bell’s latest article for Entrepreneur.
How will you impact your community?
Our Charitable Giving Guide helps you explore the best options for your goals and ensure your giving aligns with your overall strategy, no matter where you are in your philanthropic journey.
Preserve Your Wealth
Your tax liability could increase when the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expires at the end of 2025. In this webinar, John Maddison joins Doug Neal of Windham Brannon to discuss the intricacies of the gift tax exclusion and provide some estate planning tips.
How Do Interest Rates Impact Your Estate Tax Liability?
Our Financial Planning Team shares estate planning strategies to take advantage of high- and low- interest rate environments.
Knowing Your Competitive Advantage
In this FastCompany article, Adrian Cronje, Ph.D., CFA shares the importance of entrepreneurs creating a competitive advantage to protect their businesses in the short and long-term.
Are You Ready for the Expiration of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act?
John Maddison shares tips you might use to adjust your estate plan to minimize tax liability in this article for Triangle Business Journal.
What’s the Best Gift Founders Can Give Future Generations?
Chairman Robert Balentine shares benefits of succession planning including strengthening your business, creating resilience, and leaving a legacy in his latest article for Forbes.
4 Opportunities for Founders to Align Business and Personal Planning
John Maddison identifies opportunities to align business and personal financial planning in an article for Triangle Business Journal.
Getting Started with 529 Plans
As a new school year starts for kids around the country, the question of how best to fund education is top of mind for parents and family members.
College Healthcare Considerations
As your student settles into their new routine this fall, we encourage you to turn your attention to emergency medical planning and health insurance.
The Time is Now
Ensure estate documents meet wealth transfer, asset protection, and charitable gifting needs ahead of federal tax exemption changes.
Five Estate Planning Oversights
Consider these 5 oversights when reviewing your estate planning documents
Balentine uses Vanilla to strengthen client relationships
Jennifer Pcholinsky shares how she uses Vanilla, an estate planning software
Laying the Groundwork
Complete Tax Planning in 2022 to Start 2023 Strong
How to Select a Financial Advisor
I often meet entrepreneurs who spend decades using a disciplined, process-oriented approach to building their businesses and, as a result, accumulate great wealth. However, it’s remarkable how many of them devote more time to planning their next vacation than to choosing a wealth manager to steward the proceeds from their life’s work after a transition event.
Don’t Wait Until Disaster Strikes
Financial preparedness in the face of Mother Nature
Big Mistakes
My personal reckoning during the Great Financial Crisis
I Want a Divorce... Now What?
Navigating your finances before, during, and after a divorce
If I Knew Then What I Know Now
What every new college graduate should know about wealth planning
Do You Have Unclaimed Property?
Treasure hunting for the modern age
It’s Time to Go Digital
The Value of a Digital Vault
Financial Planning by Decade: Your 40s
Entering your prime earning years
Can You Afford Your Retirement?
How to navigate the golden years smoothly
Confessions of a Former TV Producer
Why it may not pay to watch the news
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