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We all have family stories around money, some fun and harmless, others serious and impactful. They are the money stories that shape your financial personality. Knowing how to recognize your money story and its influence on your behavior is vital to your overall financial health and success. It is also key to building and maintaining financial harmo...

The polarizing and often misunderstood cryptoasset landscape has grown exponentially in recent years. While there are substantial risks associated with these young assets, they continue to grow in importance along with its blockchain technology. This paper reviews some of the space’s pressing issues, considers cryptoassets in a portfolio setting, a...

Although business-owning families have foundational reasons for staying invested, most at some point will contemplate whether, when, and how to divest. By asking five key questions, a business owner's decision to hold a concentrated position or unwind all or a portion of the business can be made with greater confidence.

Facing more frequent and intense cyber threats, it’s vital that businesses are prepared for the attacks. In this episode of Marsh’s Risk in Context podcast, learn how organizations can build effective cyber incident and ransomware management plans and the actions they can take before, during, and after an attack. An important piece of y...

The ESG-labeled bond issuance has been significantly growing and is likely to persist, along with investor interest in this segment of the fixed income markets. What can responsible investors in this market expect in the year to come? Sustainable bonds should play an increasingly important role.

In this segment of The Market in Five Charts, Chief Investment Officer Rick Pitcairn addresses the Ukraine crisis and its impact on capital markets through the following lens:US equity market is resilientEuropean dependence on Russian oil Cooling equity market speculation is one of the US Fed’s desired outcomesUS Fed policy is made more ...

Eton Solutions discusses how to mitigae cyber secuirty breaches in family offices.

In this Tax Outlook Survey, 150 tax executives were polled on questions ranging from their tax planning strategies to their views on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives. The findings indicate that the recently enacted and proposed tax policy changes continue to pose challenges to tax executives and their teams as they strive to ...

The tailwinds that greeted commodities in 2021 have moderated, but they are not gone. Faced with strong economic growth and high inflation, the market expects the Fed to run down its balance sheet and begin hiking interest rates. In addition, a shift in consumer habits has left most commodity markets priced for a deficit, which may require an exten...

During the Great Resignation, retaining talent has become a big challenge for many employers who know that losing talent can be costly and high-performing employees are difficult to replace. While employees may leave if they are underpaid relative to the market, it is rarely the sole reason for leaving an employer. As companies think about ret...

Russia has long been designated as a technologically hostile nation. In the leadup to the conflict with Ukraine, Russia launched unprecedented, but predictable, cyber warfare operations against the Ukrainian government and civilian infrastructure. With the situation on high alert and Russia’s aggressive cyber attacks that go beyond Ukraine, a...

ESG—the environmental, social, and governance factor can serve as a great opportunity and platform to do better while improving your business on multiple levels. In this podcast episode, host Damien Martin sits down with guest Dirk Cockrum to define ESG, explain its potential effects, describe various ESG frameworks, and share how to get star...

Most of us are familiar with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) as the headline measure of inflation. However, at the January 2012 Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed declared it would use the Personal Consumption Expenditure price index (PCE). Since the indexes are calculated differently in weight, scope, and formula, it will yield different measur...

U.S. inflation is at its highest in four decades due to COVID-19-induced spending on goods, supply-chain issues, fiscal stimulus from the government, and very accommodative monetary policy from the Federal Reserve. But unlike last time when inflation was high, some key drivers of the current inflation are expected to fade. However, several forces a...

Sustainability and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) have become a top priority for many businesses and organizations of all sizes seeking to do their part to operate responsibly within the limits of the worlds’ ecosystem. In this segment of Inside Scoop, Anisa Kamadoli Costa, Chief Sustainability Officer at Tiffany & Co. joins ...