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Engaged employees perform with passion, enthusiasm, and connection—they are often your star performers who you don’t want to lose. But in today's workforce environment, just 32% of the workforce is considered engaged—the lowest engagement rate in a decade. In this webcast we explore the new data and trends on the sta...

Quiet quitting is not new to the workforce, but it is on the rise and is a growing concern for organization leaders. What exactly is a “quiet quitter?" It's an employee who is disengaged, possibly coasting along in their job and doing the bare minimum on a regular basis. Their disengagement may be leading to workp...

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) has become the next frontier in risk mitigation and long-term value creation. While ESG introduces high-stakes responsibilities for the board, it rests on the same overriding principles of traditional governance, including communicating execution of a strategy in alignment with corporate purpose, vision, ...

How can an organization be confident it is agile enough to react to the unknown and the evolving risk landscape? One of the best ways is by establishing a strong risk culture. In this e-book, Baker Tilly practitioners take a closer look at some of the critical risks that organizations are dealing with now, how those risks have evolved in recent yea...

Professional services firms are under immense pressure to innovate, accelerate digital transformation, and meet stakeholder demands. From transparent ESG reporting to investments in new technologies and cybersecurity, this playbook will help you ready your organization in an evolving industry and prepare for the future.

Inflation has started to take hold in key areas of the market which will have an impact on how real estate investors should view their current and prospective investments. Parsing through the inflation data, there are four causes of inflation that are pertinent to various stakeholders in real estate—from occupiers and users to developers and invest...

Investing sustainably does not mean sacrificing returns. In fact, the opposite is true across many different asset classes. A closer look shows how investments in private equity, public equity, and fixed income can generate social impact while driving real financial results for investors.

The environmental, social, and governance (ESG) research among institutional investors has historically focused mostly on the “E” and the “G,” leaving social issues as somewhat of a forgotten middle child. But the COVID-19 pandemic and racially-driven police violence have shifted public opinion, and it matters. At this infle...

Election Day in the U.S. has the potential to surprise in many aspects, and this year’s election outcome will have a profound impact on equity valuations—or at least that’s what the market appears to be telling the investors. With this year’s referendum likely to result in valuation changes, the attention turns to the q...

COVID-19 has forced organizations of all kinds to consider what the future of their operations would look like in a post COVID-19 world. Family offices were no exception. Rapidly fading are the days when a family office would provide a space where their staff can work. Most of these physical offices now stand empty as working from home has become t...

Thought leaders and practitioners discuss key investment risks and opportunities through a social equity lens, and are joined by Judy Belk, president and CEO of The California Wellness Foundation, for a fireside chat on how the foundation is addressing social equity issues holistically through both grant-making and investment approaches.

The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically accelerated the move from traditional office environment to work-from-home for most American office workers. It is clear that a significant portion of workers will move from a five-day in-office work week to something else. Recognizing, navigating, and adapting to the new office environment will be key to successf...

One of today’s dominant macro-trends is the reversal of globalization—the free flow of people, goods, services, capital, technology, and ideas across national borders. COVID-19 has further accelerated the deglobalization. In this environment, equity investors may have a harder time finding steady profitability and value. Taking a look a...

Many companies were caught off-guard in the spring when diagnoses of COVID-19 multiplied rapidly and forced businesses to close or drastically change their policies with little warning. Now companies that have reopened must prepare for the future, as resurgences may occur at any time in different parts of the country. In preparation for future infe...

There are policy changes and new procedures that companies—including family offices—should consider when reopening amid the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly given the increase in cases in many parts of the country. But companies cannot change policies in a vacuum. Instead, they must clearly and effectively communicate these changes to em...