Despite a strong economy the past few years, a construction labor shortage has left construction companies in a peculiar position. Even with the unemployment rate hovering at the lowest level in 18 years, it's becoming increasingly hard to find workers.

Corporate social responsibility makes good sense from a business perspective, and not just because companies stand to gain financial returns on these initiatives.

In a quarter where a “risk-on” mentality generally prevailed, the third quarter saw U.S. stocks gain, Treasury yields rise, and credit spreads tighten. For their part, U.S. Treasury investors looked past threats of tariffs and trade wars to an economy that is still strong by all accounts.

One of the toughest issues facing growing firms in a fiercely competitive market is the importance of company culture.

With many small and medium-sized businesses experiencing an upturn in sales, the recent increase in interest rates may seem like a tempting time to change your cash management strategies to move excess cash from a non-interest bearing account into one paying the highest rate they can find.

When was the last time you thought about the effectiveness of your company's data protection program and its ability to fend off a cyber attack?

The challenge for investors, and for us as advisors, is to balance the need for a long term, goals-based perspective and approach with the reality that markets are constantly moving and adjusting, creating new risk/reward tradeoffs, and frankly, challenges for us in meeting those objectives.

As we move deeper into this long expansion, each economic data point is being scrutinized for signs of deterioration. We expect to hit cyclical highs in areas such as manufacturing and employment at some point next year, but we have yet to see evidence of that in 2018.