Midyear Outlook 2025: Pragmatic Optimism, Measured Expectations
We started 2025 on a high note, although we acknowledged that “no market environment is ever permanent, and that change is always potentially around the corner.” Well change did come, and with it, volatility, perhaps in part because we assumed President Trump’s...
Outlook 2025: Pragmatic Optimism
Outlook 2025: Pragmatic Optimism By LPL Financial Research Looking back, 2024 clearly echoed many of the themes from 2023. By and large, the economy continued to defy expectations and surprised once again. Stocks continued their strong performance, driven by powerful...
Yours, Mine, and Ours — A Couple’s Guide to Retirement Planning
While the reasons for earning two incomes may vary from couple to couple, these families often face a similar financial challenge: participation in separate retirement programs.
Withdrawing Your Assets: Understanding RMDs
When it comes time to start withdrawing the money you’ve spent a lifetime accumulating in your retirement portfolio, you want to ensure that you make the right decisions.
Will Your Money Last? Risks to Retirement Income
A sound retirement income plan takes into account several financial risks, including the potential for the retiree to outlive his or her assets, the effects of inflation on future income, rising health care costs, and the uncertain future of the Social Security system.
- Rate and Credit View | Making Mortgage Finance Private Again | July 2025on July 25, 2025 at 5:36 pm
LPL Research analyzes the potential privatization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and its impact on mortgage rates, credit access, and the MBS market.
- Weekly Market Commentary | Midyear Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodity Markets Outlook: Higher for Longer | July 21, 2025on July 21, 2025 at 12:59 pm
LPL Research provides its midyear bond and commodity market outlook on interest rates, Federal Reserve rate cuts, gold, the U.S. dollar, and much more.
- Equity Strategy Insights | A Lot Riding on Second Quarter Earnings Season | July 2025on July 17, 2025 at 5:03 pm
LPL Research asks will second quarter results and guidance from corporate America be good enough to set up positive earnings surprises in the second half despite tariffs?
