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.

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.

A well-constructed estate plan reduces stress and legal hassles for your family. It also gives them direction if you’re incapacitated. And there are other benefits too, says Boston Private’s Gerald Baker, J.D.

While most professional athletes are hopeless about money matters, we can learn important lessons from their mistakes. Here are four that Chris Dudley gleaned from athletes who beat the odds.

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...

The thirst for yield in the low interest rate environment of the last several years has created persistent demand for dividend paying stocks. Indeed, with investment grade bonds struggling to pay an attractive yield, dividends have taken on the role of cash flow generation for many investors...