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Key Takeaways The advisors getting the most out of AI are using it as a thinking partner, built into their day-to-day processes. Advisor value is...
Key Takeaways For high-net-worth retirees, the Medicare plan choice made at 65 can determine how much financial exposure a serious health event creates, not just...
Key Takeaways A workshop is the opening move in a sales process. The follow-up is where that investment either pays off or quietly disappears. Contact...
Key Takeaways When clients push back on annuity fees, liquidity, or surrender charges, those objections often signal a planning conversation that hasn't happened yet Fee...
Key Takeaways Traditional IRAs can create distinct tax problems that affect the original account owner, a surviving spouse, and beneficiaries who inherit the account. The SECURE Act changed inherited IRA...
When we launched the Valor AI Foundations Portfolio earlier this year, the thesis was straightforward: artificial intelligence is a generational technology shift, and the companies...
Matt Seitz Recognized as Chief Marketing Officer of the Year Finalist and Dave Alison Named Innovator of the Year Finalist CLEVELAND, Ohio — June 11,...
Key Takeaways The six months following April 15 may offer more planning leverage than any other period of the year. One Big Beautiful Bill Act...
Key Takeaways: Annuities are not all the same. Fixed indexed annuities are a meaningfully different product from the variable annuities that shaped the category's reputation,...
Required minimum distributions (RMDs) — the minimum amounts that must be withdrawn from a retirement account each year once you reach the applicable age or...
Key Takeaways Markets have recovered sharply from two major geopolitical shocks in 2026, but many of the underlying risks remain. Portfolios are now navigating those...
Clients and families will benefit from a deeply integrated approach that brings financial planning, investments, taxes, protection, and legacy planning together under one roof WESTLAKE,...
