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.
Tax-Deferred Accounts: IRS Distribution Requirements
Tax-deferred accounts such as IRAs and 401(k) plans are excellent vehicles for saving for retirement. But the IRS imposes a number of distribution requirements that, if not met, can result in penalties.
- Weekly Market Commentary | China’s Equity Market Diverges: A-Shares vs. H-Shares | June 23 2025on June 23, 2025 at 1:23 pm
LPL Financial explores the split in China’s stock market, as mainland A-shares struggle and internationally accessible H-shares rally on renewed investor interest.
- Weekly Market Commentary | Inflation’s Importance to Financial Markets Cannot Be Overstated | June 16, 2025on June 18, 2025 at 2:13 pm
Inflation’s effects on the economy, policy, and the financial markets are wide-ranging. LPL Financial explores the ways inflation can impact the market.
- Global Portfolio Strategy | Staying the Course as S&P 500 Threatens New Highs | June 2025on June 12, 2025 at 6:25 pm
U.S. stocks settled sharply higher last month with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq delivering their best month since November 2023.
