Key Tax Provisions of the OBBB (One Big Beautiful Bill)

In a move to preserve key elements of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), as well as introduce new tax policies, lawmakers passed a new piece of legislation: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was signed into law by President Trump on Friday, July 4, 2025.

Provisions of the bill either permanently or temporarily extend aspects of the tax code which affect individuals, businesses, and estates. This brings numerous financial planning implications and opportunities.

The Importance of Trust Administration in Estate Planning: Why Consulting an Attorney is Essential

Trust administration is a crucial component of estate planning, ensuring that your assets are properly distributed according to your wishes after your passing. Consulting an experienced estate attorney can provide the necessary expertise to navigate trust administration efficiently and effectively, safeguarding your family's financial future and avoiding costly mistakes.

Can You Predict Postelection Winners?

Markets quickly incorporate new expectations following election outcomes. Once the ballots are counted, stock prices reflect, in real time, investor expectations about things such as regulatory or tax policy changes. When these new expectations are baked into prices, we should not expect an election effect to persist.

About Mutual Funds/ETFs and Why We Use Dimensional

There’s no other fund company that I know of that is remotely close to that level of consistent outperformance. It tells me that their scientific statistical based evidence based investing is working very well. It’s wonderful that it shows up in such a big way.

The Small Cap Value Smackdown! Update Nov. 12, 2024

Why did DFA win? First, DFA provides a greater tilt towards small and value. Another is that DFA uses techniques to overcome the large bid ask spread that exists for very small thinly traded stocks. Finally DFA also utilizes the profitability premium, which joins small and value as one of the pervasive market premiums available to investors.