Romance and Finance: Growing Wealth as a Young Couple

As newlyweds, you’re entering a beautiful new chapter of love, partnership, and—wait for it—shared bank accounts. Marriage is all about compromise, from deciding who gets the last slice of pizza to figuring out who’s responsible for paying the bills. And when it comes to money, it’s less about whose turn it is to buy dinner and more about aligning your financial goals. It could be splurging on a vacation or saving for the future.

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Grandparents and Gifting: Doing It the Right Way

We’ve written previously about various ways grandparents might want to structure the financial gifts they provide for their grandchildren. Grandparents may wish to include their grandchildren in their annual gifting plans as a regular part of their estate planning; in 2024, by combining their individual gift tax exclusions, a married couple filing jointly can gift as much as $36,000 to one or more individuals.

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LGBTQ+ Financial Planning: Some Important Considerations

While many important advances have been made in recent years in both the legal and social landscape, LGBTQ+ individuals still face many unique challenges, many of which have financial implications. This means that LGBTQ+ persons, whether single, partnered, or legally married, need financial planning advice that recognizes and takes into account these special challenges.

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The Three Dimensions of Risk

The Three Dimensions of Risk

As financial planners, we spend a lot of time talking with our clients about risk. In the markets, as in life, accepting certain calculated risks is

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