The key is determining the appropriate amount of risk for the reward you are seeking. This balancing of risk and reward is the foundation of all the work we do for clients and is critically important to long-term financial success.
Amassing wealth comes with many benefits, but having a substantial estate comes with the repercussions of elevated taxes. Gifting portions of your assets to mitigate tax ramifications is possibly a reasonable strategy.
Watch Sand Hill Global Advisor's video about the most important things to consider before buying your dream vacation home in this frenzied real estate market, such as the cost, location, investment potential, tax impact, and exit strategy.
Many Americans reignited long-forgotten passions amidst the exhausting and traumatic months of lock-down caused by this pandemic. With stress at an all-time high and the CDC heavily cautioning against face-to-face socialization, they turned to interests they hadn’t partaken of in years. Here are some of the top pastimes they pursued.
Recently, investors are expanding into the realm of luxury collectibles to augment their portfolios. With the right passion and knowledge, high-end collecting can offer potential monetary gains. This decade-long trend is well documented, and it’s easy to see why it has captured the imagination of investors and venture capitalists around the world.
For those new to the relatively recent and rather profound paradigm shift in internet search, the next generation of chatbots can realistically simulate human conversation by mining huge samples of texts and images available on the internet.
2022 marks Sand Hill’s 40th anniversary. In celebration of this milestone, we want to reflect on our dedication to the firm’s founding core values while also evolving to bring more to your financial journey than ever before.
And that prosperity resulted in rising manufacturing and labor costs, which in turn led to U.S. companies seeking cheaper manufacturing centers elsewhere in the world. China, with their lower cost of production, complemented by their managed currency exchange rate, became that spot.
There is no question that horses and humanity are inexorably linked. The first archaeological evidence of people domesticating horses dates as far back as 3500 B.C.E. And despite the fact that tractors and cars have replaced horses for work and travel in the modern day, America’s equine population has steadily increased over the last 50 years with no signs of slowing. As an investor you may ask yourself, is the equestrian world truly a worthwhile investment?
At some point in the not-too-distant future—whether through herd immunity, treatment, vaccine or a disease-state mutation—the health-related threat of the coronavirus will begin to fade away.
At the end of the day, many of these companies are going to fundamentally change our lives, but the market’s current unwillingness to reward open-ended financial losses is likely to curtail your highly subsidized consumer lifestyle faster than most want to believe.
Flying cars may be a reality sooner than we think. Just a short while ago, this concept would probably only seem plausible decades into the future. But now that the autonomous self-driving car is quickly moving from prototype to reality here in Silicon Valley, the idea of cars traveling through the sky may not be such a futuristic endeavor.
The financial world has come a long way since those quaint days when the speed of a carrier pigeon decided one’s economic fortune or demise. Electronic trading specifically has improved the speed, efficiency, record keeping and the liquidity of the markets and, importantly, has substantially lowered transaction costs over the last several decades.
