Quarterly Newsletters

Newsletter Archives

Winter, 2024
– How to Evaluate the Private Equity Market Now
– Is Disinflation Transitory?
– Tax Update: Tax Planning, Retirement Plans and IRS Efficiency

Fall, 2023
– Management Fees and Tax-Loss Selling
– Smarter and Thinner: Opportunity in Disruption
– Tax Update: Audit Timelines and Direct Indexing Benefits

Summer, 2023
– Eyes on Money Market Funds and Private Equity
– An Unusually Strong
– Recovery Artificial Intelligence: Possibilities and Pitfalls Tax Update:
– IRS Changes the Rules of the Game
– Shining a Bright Light on an Unsung Hero: Julie Phippen

Spring, 2023
– Be Steady and Vigilant
– Market Momentum, Bank Bailouts, and Recession or Soft Landing?
– Tax Update: Tax Revenues, Secure Act Dates, and Student Loans

Winter, 2023
– Creating Wealth in an Ironic Financial Environment
– The Fed Prescribes Pain
– Woodstock Corporation: Services, Structure & Skill
– Retirement, Estate Tax Changes, and Adventurous Tax Planning

Fall, 2022
– A Path Through the Turmoil
– Grimace Now, Smile Later
– How Should You View the Market Downturn?
– Tax Roundup: Record IRS Revenue Intake, Excessive Penalties, and TIPS

Summer, 2022
– Wall Street Catches Up
– A Difficult Period for Stocks
– Tax Update: Correspondence Audits and Charitable Distributions

Spring, 2022
– Why Investing Directly in Stocks Serves Investors Well
– As the Fed Fights Inflation, Can Recession Be Far Behind?­
– Tax Update: Extensions, Capital Gains, and Social Security

Winter, 2022
– Trends to Watch in the Year
– Ahead Inflation Presents a New Challenge­
– Tax Update: Revenue Debates and the State of the IRS

Fall, 2021
– A Middle Ground for Investors
– Peering Down From Way Above Trend, A Look at the TINA Problem and Portfolio Rebalancing Headwinds­
– What’s a Client to Do?
– Tax Roundup: Tax Guide, Social Security, and Tax Gaps

Summer, 2021
– Investment Strategies and Tactics for Tricky Times
– Remember Normal? Economy Reaccelerates at Full Tilt­
– Tax Update

Spring, 2021
– ­Risk Factors: Regulatory Oversight and Inflation
– A Case in Contrast
– Bright Light at End of Pandemic Tunnel: The Great American Reopening
– Tax Update

Winter, 2021
– ­Sleep Well by Setting Limits and Watching
– The Limits of Monetary and Fiscal Policy
– Socially Responsible and ESG Investing – Trendy Topic or The New Normal?
– Woodstock Welcomes Benjamin Dawson as Senior VP & Portfolio Manager
– Tax Update
– Trip Sparked Idea for Nonprofit to Benefit Women in Africa

Newsletter Archives

Summer, 2019
– Uncharted Territory, But With Déjà-vu
– Thinking About Investment Success Over the Next 20- 30 Years
– Tax Update

Spring, 2019
– One and Twenty
– First Quarter, 2019 Financial Markets Review: A Wild Shift Up
– Tax Update

Winter, 2019
– Clean Up Liquidity with a Taper, Powell
– Tax Update

Fall, 2018
– Stay the Course
– Tax Update

Summer, 2018
– Why are Long Term Interest Rates so Low?
– Tax Update

Spring, 2018
– Realistic Investor Expectations for Late Cycle Conditions
– Tax Update

Winter, 2018
– An Uncoiling Spring
– Tax Update

Fall, 2017
– What to Make of the Market
– Tax Update
– Agawam Trust and Management

Summer, 2017
– The Death of Inflation
– Spotlight Focus: Sewpportive Friends

Spring, 2017
– Fundamentals Will Trump the Economic Growth Age
– Tax Update

Winter, 2017
– A New Regime
– Tax Update

Fall, 2016
– Is Corporate America’s Buyback Binge Coming to an End?
– Tax Update

Summer, 2016
– Strange Times
– Tax Update

Spring, 2016
– Who Killed the Business Cycle?

Winter, 2016
– The Oil Drag of 2015 Reverses in 2016

Fall, 2015
– What’s Going on With China?
– Tax Update

Summer, 2015
– A Look at Wages

Spring, 2015
– Earnings, Economy Slow but Long Term Still Positive

Fall, 2020
– ­A Perspective on Volatility, Complexity, and Other Asset Classes
– “Covid Stocks” and Pandemic Ripple Effects
– Tax Update

Summer, 2020
– ­US Shines in Share of World Market Capitalization
– One Part of Growth Investing
– What Will the Recovery Look Like?­
– Tax Update

Spring, 2020
– ­An Optimal Asset Mix for the Win Corona
– Virus Pandemic: Stimulus and Response
– The Hard Work at Woodstock
– Cash Component­
– Tax Update

Newsletter Archives

Winter, 2015
– Three Key Developments in Financial Markets
– Tax Update

Fall, 2014
– Off the Floor Boards
– Safeguarding your Financial Information

Summer, 2014
– Are Higher Stock Prices Ahead?
– What is GIPS?

Spring, 2014
– Activists
– Warming Up?
– Agawam Trust

Winter, 2014
– S&P 500 Returns Will Also Taper in 2014!

Fall, 2013
– Slow and Steady Wins the Race
– Strataweb Update
– Tax Update

Summer, 2013
– Don’t Fear the Taper
– Contributions to a Traditional Investment Retirement Account

Spring, 2013
– The Same Old Cycle, But With a Twist
– The Family Office Revisited

Winter, 2013
– Research Strength
– Tax Update

Fall, 2012
– Don’t Just Stand There – Ease!
– It’s October 2012, Do You Know What Your Estate Plan Says?
– Tax Update

Summer, 2012
– Mid-Year 2012
– Beyond Investment Management
– Tax Update

Spring, 2012
– Introducing Woodstock’s Three New Portfolio Strategies
– A Broken Business Model
– Spring Cleaning

Winter, 2012
– 2011 Year in Review and 2012 Outlook
– The 2010 Tax Relief Act

Fall, 2011
– Europe is a Mess
– A Word on Bond Funds

Summer, 2011
– Midyear 2011

Spring, 2011
– Inflation Fears

Winter, 2011
– Cruising on the QEII
– Tax Update

Fall, 2010
Summer, 2010
Spring, 2010
Winter, 2010