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6 Tips to Navigate Volatile Markets
Investing successfully requires discipline and strategy. These six expert-backed tips from Fidelity can help you build a strong portfolio, manage risk, and stay focused on long-term financial goals
Why Bitcoin? A Perspective From Model Portfolio builders
Bitcoin’s growing role in the financial landscape is driven by its potential as a store of value, portfolio diversifier, and hedge against inflation. BlackRock explores why institutional investors are increasingly considering Bitcoin as part of their asset allocation strategies.
Should You Gift Your Appreciated Assets During Your Lifetime?
Giving appreciated assets as lifetime gifts can offer tax advantages and maximize wealth transfer. Morningstar explores the benefits, potential pitfalls, and key considerations for making the most of this estate planning strategy.
Top 10 Reasons To Have A Will
Having a will ensures your assets are distributed according to your wishes, protects your loved ones, and simplifies the legal process after your passing. Trust & Will outlines key reasons why everyone should have a will and how it can provide peace of mind for the future.
Can You Predict Post-election Winners?
After an election, many investors try to predict which sectors will thrive under the new administration’s policies. But history suggests that election-driven market bets rarely translate into long-term outperformance.
Advance Healthcare Directive vs Living Will: What’s the Difference?
An advance directive is a broad legal document outlining medical preferences if you're incapacitated, while a living will specifically addresses end-of-life care. An advance directive may also include a medical power of attorney, designating someone to make healthcare decisions for you.
5 Potential Surprises for 2025
Fidelity’s 2025 outlook highlights the possibility of persistent inflation driven by strong labor markets and housing shortages, fiscal policy volatility creating market uncertainty, and lower-than-average asset returns due to high valuations.
2025 Economic and Market Outlook
Vanguard's 2025 outlook predicts global monetary easing, moderate U.S. GDP growth, and a gradual decline in inflation. They foresee improved fixed income opportunities due to higher yields and balanced potential for equity returns over the next decade.
Look Alive, Preretirees: An Additional Savings Option Is Coming in 2025
Starting in 2025, individuals aged 60-63 will gain access to increased retirement plan catch-up contributions, offering new opportunities for savings, with key changes to Roth contribution rules delayed until 2026.
6 Ways the New Trump Administration Could Impact Your Retirement
A new Trump administration could bring changes to Social Security, Medicare, and tax policies, impacting retirement planning, healthcare costs, and financial regulations for retirees.
What is a Charitable Bequest & Why Should You Care?
A charitable bequest allows you to leave a gift to a nonprofit in your will or trust, offering tax benefits and creating a lasting legacy.
Qualified Charitable Distributions: The Tax-Savvy Way to Give Back
As you plan your year end charitable giving, you might evaluate using a qualified charitable distribution (QCD) in place of your required minimum distribution (RMD) from your IRA.
Inheritance Desires: What Do Americans Really Want?
When a loved one dies, they may pass on either valuable property or sentimental possessions to their heirs. A new survey reveals that different factors may contribute to different inheritance preferences.
Will You Owe Taxes When You Sell Your Home?
Regularly documenting home improvements in NCM360 can help boost the cost basis in your home and thereby lower the odds that you will owe taxes should you ever sell.
Vote with Your Ballot, Not Your Life Savings
This presidential election feels uniquely challenging, but I remain confident in the long-term resilience of the stock market.
Remembering John “Mac” McQuown, Whose Curiosity Drove a Life of Innovation
John “Mac” McQuown, a founding Director of Dimensional Fund Advisors in 1981, was a financial engineer, entrepreneur, and environmentalist with an insatiable curiosity and relentless drive that led him to start more than a dozen companies in his lifetime.
Medicare Open Enrollment: What to Know as You Enroll for 2025
Key changes will take effect this year as a result of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Q3 2024 Review
The stock market overcame a spike in volatility in the third quarter, reaching record levels again, as the Fed cut rates for the first time in four years.
How to help: Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene devastated the southeastern U.S. after making landfall in Florida, leaving many without power or basic needs, and recovery is expected to take years. If New Capital can assist you with research or grant recommendations, please let us know.
How to Fund a Trust: A Step-by-Step Guide
Discover a simplified approach to funding a trust, including how to transfer assets and what to consider for different property types.