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In increasingly competitive industries and operating environments, more companies are being highly intentional with their company culture as a means to drive desired results. For firms that believe in engaging employees, providing more directed training, or offering a more flexible work environment, technology, in its various forms, is a critical tool. For firms with core values that promote employees and process improvement, the realized and potential impact of technology on culture is significant. This article discusses some of these technological tools and how they support business culture and objectives.
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Late last week, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in North Carolina Department of Revenue vs. Kimberly Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust (“Kaestner”). The Supreme Court ruled that the Due Process Clause prevents a state from taxing the income of a trust in situations where the sole connection of the trust to the state is via a contingent beneficiary maintaining a presence in the state.
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By using a disciplined business cycle approach, investors can identify key phases in the economy to achieve active returns from sector allocation.
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One of the most challenging aspects of evaluating opportunities at this point in the market cycle is the tendency of the market to be rather binary in its assessments.
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As market strategists and pundits attempt to predict the end of this economic cycle, a commonly mentioned indicator is the term spread of U.S. Treasuries – or the difference between short-term yields and long-term yields.
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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.
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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?
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While the 24-hour news cycle careened from one potential political crisis to the next, from North Korea, to the Affordable Care Act repeal, to Supreme Court changes, and finally to tax reform, volatility in the equity markets remained subdued, and the pace of the upward climb continued throughout 2017...
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As 2017 closed, it has become clear that the "animal spirits" that guide the markets can shake off natural disasters, populist uprisings, a nuclear threat, and an ongoing stream of fodder for what once would have been Presidential scandals, but now pass for business as usual in the Trump Administration...
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We're in the final stage of tax reform following the Senate's passage of its bill. Washington policy expert Doug Fisher explains the complicated and most critical next step in the process to final passage of tax reform. As the House and Senate bills shape up, Doug offers an important planning consideration related to your business.
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