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We hope you and your loved ones enjoyed a wonderful holiday season. Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to help you pursue your financial goals. We look forward to our continued relationship with you and seeing what the year ahead will bring. The year 2025 was filled with many significant events, from ushering in a new president, to a brief but alarming market correction. Overall, it proved to be a great year for investors. Investors enjoyed strong returns, and major indexes reached multiple new highs. The Fed’s decision to lower interest rates in the latter half of the year, a continued healthy and resilient economy, and strong corporate earnings fueled positive investor sentiment

Equity markets closed out the fourth quarter of 2025 on a strong note, buoyed by an interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve in December. Delighting investors, 2025 marked the third consecutive year in which equities delivered double- digit returns. This extended bull market was powered largely by three federal rate cuts during the second half of the year, robust AI-driven technology earnings, and broadly positive investor sentiment.

One of our main goals as holistic financial professionals is to help our clients recognize tax reduction opportunities within their investment portfolios and overall financial planning strategies. Staying current with the ever-changing tax environment is a key component to helping our clients benefit from potential tax reduction strategies. As you probably know, 2025 brought significant changes to tax code. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) brought many new tax law changes that commence this year as well as made permanent many of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) provisions that were scheduled to sunset at the end of this year. This report focuses on information that could be helpful for individuals when tax planning for the calendar year 2025.

Resilience illustrates the ability to withstand challenges or recover quickly from difficult conditions. Resilience can also be used to describe U.S. equity performance over the past year—including the third quarter, as markets surged past record highs despite numerous potential sources of volatility.