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.
- Market Insight Quarterly | Q3 2025
on October 9, 2025 at 7:18 pmThis quarterly publication helps provide clarity and context to the issues affecting the economy, stock and bond market.
- Global Portfolio Strategy | Solid September, But Shutdown Clouds Start of October | October 7, 2025on October 7, 2025 at 7:36 pm
Despite historical weakness in September, the S&P 500 was tracking above bullish targets, emerging markets showed renewed strength, and the Fed resumed rate cuts. Find out more from LPL Research in the October Global Portfolio Strategy.
- Weekly Market Commentary | Q3 Earnings Season Preview: Little Suspense | October 6, 2025on October 6, 2025 at 12:44 pm
LPL Research provides a Q3 earnings preview highlighting strong AI-driven growth, resilient margins despite tariffs, and a positive outlook for corporate profits into 2026.
