As we approach the end of 2021, charitable gifting is top of mind for many individuals looking to make donations before year-end. As the tax year comes to a close, investors look to charitable giving as a way to not only fulfill their philanthropic goals but also to take advantage of the tax benefit in donating to eligible charities. As you consider how to best move forward, here are five considerations to discuss with your client team to establish a charitable gifting strategy.

Understanding your money story is the key to your financial future. It contains every thought, word, action, and habit you have ever used or created around money. To help our clients better understand how their money story directly affects their current and future financial trajectory, Pathstone and HerPath conducted a webinar uniting female powerhouses Ella Chase Hyland, Co-Founder of Wellth Works, Arden O’Connor, Founder of O’Connor Professional Group, Dr. Jamie Traeger-Muney, Founder of the Wealth Legacy Group, and our very own General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Pathstone, Lisandra Wilmott. Together, these women explored how your money stories from childhood, life transitions, and your own expectations determine your relationship to money and wealth. During this discussion, each woman shared how she is using her own experiences, and the wisdom gained to help clients in their journey of owning, evaluating, and rewriting their money story based on their values and purpose. The wealth of wisdom shared amongst these women provided five key takeaways. Each lends itself to the specific aspect of uncovering and rewriting any money story.

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This quarter we take a look at the question of whether the inflation we are experiencing currently is transitory or more structural in nature.  With ongoing covid impacts to supply chains, employment and economic growth in general, we are feeling the pinch.  Despite the Fed’s optimism that this will only be transitory inflation and that supply-chain issues should be resolved by mid next year, there are reasons not to be so sanguine.  Heightened market volatility towards the end of the third-quarter highlights the sensitivity of investor and consumer confidence.