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While charitable giving peaks in December, it is good planning to go past the last month of the year to help make a greater impact for your communities. Depending on your tax needs and philanthropic goals, consider making a gift of appreciated assets, creating a charitable lead trust, and using other options that go beyond making a g...

A changing insurance market continues to impact coverage, premium, deductibles, and many other essential factors. While the insurance outlook has challenges, there are opportunities to make positive impacts on the insurance costs, coverage, and risk quality.

While high inflation, monetary policy tightening, and global recession risks could cloud the first quarter of 2023, the market conditions are expected to improve in the second quarter as inflationary pressures dissipate, particularly in the United States. In this environment, emerging markets (EMs) could be a bright spot for investors. The bear mar...

Minimizing taxes is never easy. But in times of legislative and economic uncertainty, it can be a real challenge. This guide is an overview of some of the key tax provisions higher-income taxpayers need to be aware of. It offers a variety of strategies for minimizing your taxes. Use it to identify the best strategies for your particular situation w...

Eton Solutions discusses the current trends and challenges happening in the family office.

The pace of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) has slowed down since 2021 when the market conditions were better. In this ten minute interview, Spencer Moats and Brian Lucareli discuss the current adverse market conditions and the impact they have on deal volume, the opportunities for buyers and sellers, the trends in the M&A space, and practic...

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...

A non-U.S. company's classification for U.S. tax purposes is important for Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) compliance and U.S. withholding tax reasons. Advisors to families with succession planning structures that include holding, operating, and other companies should determine the U.S. tax classification for each company in the stru...

Non-U.S. families establishing succession planning structures rarely think about the U.S. generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax. Nevertheless, when a foreign trust becomes a U.S. domestic trust so that distributions can be made in a tax-efficient manner to the settlor’s U.S. grandchildren and more remote descendants, U.S. trustees or tax ret...

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...

2022 has been an eventful year with spiking inflation, rising interest rates, geopolitical uncertainty, and unnerving market volatility. Yet amidst these uncontrollable events and uncertainty going into 2023, there are still some valuable tax planning considerations and opportunities within your control.

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.

To position your wealth and philanthropic goals in an optimal position for the long-term, there are 8 strategies that can help activate high-impact capital and initiate purpose-driven charitable giving.