Welcome to our blog. With client questions, observations and comments as inspiration, we’ve been writing about investments, markets and financial planning since we founded Atwater Malick in September of 2008. Below are links to some of our recent essays. We hope you find them educational and enjoyable.
April 8, 2025
Plummeting stock markets, like the present tariff-induced crash, are worrisome for all investors but acutely so for those approaching or…
April 3, 2025
With the Trump administration announcing massive new tariffs against U.S. trading partners, markets are beginning to price in a recession….
March 28, 2025
Online scammers are always creating new ways to dupe unsuspecting victims. Regular readers of our updates know that we take…
March 13, 2025
The market has been volatile thus far in 2025. For our regular readers, you know we have been working to…
February 25, 2025
Although the market is performing fairly well to begin 2025, we still believe there are some underlying misalignments in today’s…
February 6, 2025
In his book, Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldwyn, of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) fame, wrote that “Nobody knows anything…… Not…
January 23, 2025
Clients often ask us about gifting to family and friends. Affluent families generally use the annual exclusion amount as a…
Nov 17, 2025
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Sep 17, 2025