Latest Investments & Planning Insights

Weekly Edge

At the end of the trading week, the team at NewEdge Wealth publishes its commentary on the week that was, as well as some insights into what it means for clients looking ahead.

Graduation Season

This week we are recapping a historic second...

Call It

Spring has barely sprung, but our expectations for wide and choppy ranges in both interest rates and stock prices in 2025 have already been met…and then some. What markets do on a day-to-day basis – and what new policy announcements may drive them – has begun to feel like a coin toss.

Fear Inoculum

Individual fear is an inevitable emotion when markets are lurching lower and headlines are filled with talk of recession, but as the above analysis shows, when aggregate fear spikes and becomes the consensus emotion, it usually behooves investors to find that “long overdue immunity” to their own individual fears and embrace contrarian optimism.

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Tariffs

Investors have now lived through several weeks of heightened market volatility, driven primarily by a combination of disappointing economic data and erratic policymaking. As we’ll point out in this piece, the amount of market churn – especially intraday – has been unusually high while the peak-to-trough declines in most major indexes have not…at least, not yet.

Bruised

In many ways, investors are facing a similar harsh reality of change today, as they confront how different the world, markets, and policy priorities are in 2025 than they were in, say, 2017.

Wealth Strategy

A successful wealth strategy process benefits from a team of advisors, collectively focused on the goals specific to your family. Below are some of the insights and strategies the team at NewEdge has published on what it means to have a wealth strategy, rather than a simple financial plan.

Maximizing College Savings with 529 Plans

Maximizing College Savings with 529 Plans

To address concerns around leftover funds and to expand upon the potential avenues for funding and utilizing 529 plans efficiently, we have compiled this report to delve into potentially optimal strategies for high-net-worth investors to leverage 529 plans effectively.

The Keys to the Castle – Buying a Home

The Keys to the Castle – Buying a Home

Embarking upon the process of buying a home can be both a daunting task and an exciting one. During the home-buying process, most people focus primarily, or at least initially, on how much “house” they can afford.