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September 11, 2025
2025 Estate Planning Changes
Estate planning is never a “set it and forget it” exercise, as laws continue to evolve at both the federal and state level. 2025 has brought meaningful updates that could impact Washington families, particularly those with larger estates. Thoughtful planning can help reduce estate tax liability and ensure assets pass smoothly to the next generation.   Federal Tax Exemption Update  The 2017 Tax […]
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September 4, 2025
Convictions And Concerns
“Those are my principles; and if you don’t like them, well, I have others” —Groucho Marx The summer holidays did not come soon enough. To be sure, it has been a busy year: tariffs, fights between White House and Federal Reserve, war in Iran, war in Ukraine, India-Pakistan war, Deep Seek and other AI advances, […]
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August 27, 2025
U.S. Government’s Intel Stake: A Turning Point in Strategic Investing?
The U.S. government’s decision to purchase a nearly 10% stake in Intel for $8.9 billion marks a historic shift in how Washington approaches private industry. Rather than acting only as a crisis backstop—as seen during the bailouts of banks and automakers in 2008—the government is now positioning itself as a proactive investor in industries deemed […]
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August 21, 2025
The Calculus of Value
By Howard Marks, Oaktree Capital We are presenting a memo from Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital that discusses how investors should think about value, price, and the interaction between price and value. Mr. Marks uses this framework to analyze the current state of the market, weighing in on whether market valuations are high by historical standards, fundamentals have […]
By: Evergreen Gavekal
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August 14, 2025
Charitable Giving Changes under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) 
The recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) introduces major changes to the tax treatment of charitable contributions. Starting in 2026, a new 0.5%-of-Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) floor will apply to most charitable deductions, creating important timing and planning opportunities for donors. New opportunities are also available for those who do not itemize deductions.   […]
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August 7, 2025
Value in a Sea of Risk
A cynic, wrote Oscar Wilde in Lady Windermere's Fan, is someone who "knows the price of everything but the value of nothing." A great quip, but in fairness, figuring out value is far harder than figuring out price. In Wilde's own era, Karl Marx famously (and wrongly) argued that value stemmed from the labor required […]
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July 31, 2025
What to Make of all the Money Flowing into AI
It's amazing how quickly tides change. After ChatGPT was released in November 2022, Artificial Intelligence (AI) became the rage. To many, the excitement was reminiscent of the dot-com boom when scores of companies rushed to add a “.com” moniker to their name, hoping to cash in on the gold rush of that era. In the […]
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July 22, 2025
Managing Concentrated Positions with Options Strategies
Many investors accumulate a substantial portion of their stock portfolio in a single company, often through executive compensation, inheritance, or a long-term investment in a successful stock. While such concentration can lead to significant wealth creation, it also introduces considerable financial risk. Overconcentration risk can threaten retirement and legacy goals, as the fortunes of a single stock can heavily impact an […]
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June 5, 2025
Is the Future of AI “Physical”?
The concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has existed for decades. The field was formally established in 1956 at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, where John McCarthy coined the term. Yet, the groundwork began earlier, with ideas about thinking machines and machine learning surfacing in the 1940s and early 1950s. Still, it wasn’t […]
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May 22, 2025
Washington State Enacts Historic Tax Increases Amid Budget Shortfall
On May 20, 2025, Governor Bob Ferguson of Washington State signed into law a series of tax increases to address a projected $16 billion budget shortfall. The centerpiece is Senate Bill 5167, a $77.8 billion biennial budget for 2025–2027, marking a 6.5% increase over the previous budget. Key Tax Legislation Legislative Context The Legislature passed […]
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