Wealth is so much more than a person’s net worth; it extends beyond accumulation of money. It’s about the potential of wealth: what it can achieve, how it can help, whose lives it can change for the better. Every person, every organization has a different reason, a unique mission. Together these Whys of Wealth^SM are what get us up in the morning. Who is Steve Stein and what’s his Why?

A quick overview of how the new Tax Act could influence your income, retirement savings, and lending decisions in the year ahead from Boston Private Managing Director and Wealth Strategist Alyssa Do, JD, LL.M.

Before you file away your income tax paperwork for 2017, why not take a quick look at what you might do differently this year to save time and money on your returns next year? Alyssa Do, JD, LL.M, Managing Director and Wealth Strategist at Boston Private, shares her top three tips.

We have been counselling our clients to try to ignore politics and geopolitics when they consider their investment strategy. Instead, we have said, pay attention to the fundamentals, the strong economy, and impressive corporate earnings.

As the second longest economic expansion on record in the United States entered another year, questions around potential catalysts for greater gains arose. With economic data still solid, and the effects of the corporate tax cut not yet fully felt, the case for equities remains intact.

A strong U.S. economy, continued global growth improvement, a concerted effort by global central banks to remain accommodative as long as possible, and a general sense of complacency about valuations in the equity markets provided the backdrop for 2017’s wins.

If there is one thing that all investors can agree on from the first quarter of 2018, it is that volatility in the markets is most certainly back. But what does that mean, and why is it such a critical data point for market participants?

While the new law simplified some tax provisions for individuals such as replacing most itemized deductions with a larger standard deduction, it made the law murkier for one of the most valuable tax benefits for small businesses — the special tax rate for businesses organized as pass-through entities.