2025 : Familiar Headlines, Higher-Quality Returns

2025 : Familiar Headlines, Higher-Quality Returns

Reflecting on market performance through the end of 2025, the annual recap and forward outlook sound strikingly familiar to the previous year. Once again, market returns diverged from many forecasts offered at the beginning of the year. Entering 2025, investors were...
Ready for Retirement? Know Where You Are and What Comes Next 

Ready for Retirement? Know Where You Are and What Comes Next 

  For high-income earners and affluent families, retirement isn’t merely a financial endpoint — it’s a transition best met with foresight, precision, and the seamless integration of wealth, tax, and lifestyle planning. Yet even among financially successful...
Falling Leaves, Falling Rates: The Fed’s Careful Dance Into Easing

Falling Leaves, Falling Rates: The Fed’s Careful Dance Into Easing

Autumn brings a season of change. A time when colors shift and the leaves begin their slow descent to the ground. In some ways, the Federal Reserve seems to be entering its own fall season with interest rates finally drifting lower. In September the Fed delivered a...
Give Smarter: 2025 Gifting Strategies

Give Smarter: 2025 Gifting Strategies

As the year winds down, many BSW Clients are thinking about how to make a meaningful impact through charitable giving. One of the most flexible and tax-efficient tools available is the Donor Advised Fund (DAF). A quick refresher on how Donor Advised Funds work:...