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Mercer Advisors Lands $1.2B Raymond James Practice

Wealth Management

The deal includes Family Wealth Tax Advisory, an affiliated tax practice that will be integrated into Mercer’s tax planning services. “We And we can invest more to continue to expand those services for our clients in Florida.” That’s up tenfold from 2018, when there were fewer than 70 employee shareholders.

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Morgan Stanley Wins Deferred Compensation Arbitration Case

Wealth Management

The Michigan-based advisor left in 2018 to join Raymond James’ independent division as part of Family Legacy Wealth Partners. The case originated as a class action led by Matthew Shafer, a Florida-based rep who also left for Raymond James in 2018. In the FINRA award dated Aug.

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Market Commentary: Stocks Hit New Highs Amid a Year of Milestones

Carson Wealth

Optimism over lower taxes, a stronger economy, animal spirits, and strong earnings all were likely reasons for the surge. 6 million level we saw in 2018-2019. million level we saw in 2018-2019. These levels are not a bad place to be if things can hold at this level, but its the trend thats concerning. Hires fell to 5.3

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Market Commentary: Some Favorite Charts from 2024 and a New Congress Is Sworn In

Carson Wealth

Our general view is that lower taxes, deregulation, higher fiscal deficits, and lower interest rates are all policies that tend to have a positive impact on corporate profits, which in turn support stock gains. The S&P 500 fell over 6% in 2018 as the Fed tightened policy, and the trade war was raging.

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Market Commentary: Investment Takeaways as Tariffs Take Their Toll on Markets

Carson Wealth

A 40% tariff on their $10 of exports to the US would be $4, although US importers pay the tax.) On the other hand, another stated goal is to raise 100s of billions of dollars of revenue from tariffs (to perhaps pay for tax cuts), but in that case you dont want import substitution and reshoring of manufacturing.

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Market Commentary: Taking a Look at the AI Economy as Stocks Approach New Highs

Carson Wealth

In fact, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”) is expected to spur further investment spending, as it provides tax relief for companies that frontload investments, freeing up cashflow. This underlines the opportunities from the tax bill that we discussed in our 2025 Outlook, and more recently in our 2025 Midyear Outlook.

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Muni Bonds: Winners in 2018 and Bright Skies Ahead for 2019

Brown Advisory

Muni Bonds: Winners in 2018 and Bright Skies Ahead for 2019 ajackson Thu, 02/07/2019 - 08:44 Municipal bonds held their ground in 2018, and truly shined when equity markets were punished during the fourth quarter. Here’s a quick recap of 2018 and our thoughts heading into 2019. Treasury yields in late November and December 2018.