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Private Wealth Management
Gifting Appreciated Securities to a Donor-Advised Fund Program
This charitable vehicle provides a simplified approach that allows you to maximize your charitable donations and tax benefits—an approach that can transform the way you give.
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Equity Research
PFAS Solutions (Part 2): The Potential Impact of Loper Bright on the PFAS Market
In this episode of William Blair Thinking Presents, Tim Mulrooney, group head of global services, follows up on his last episode about the PFAS market to detail how the recent Supreme Court ruling known as Loper Bright could have far-reaching implications for all types of regulations, including environmental ones like PFAS.
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Investment Management
Demystifying Emerging Markets Debt
Understanding emerging markets debt involves recognizing the risks, myths, and opportunities that differentiate it from other asset classes.
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Equity Research
PFAS Solutions (Part 1): The Big Business of Turning Forever into Never
Tim Mulrooney, William Blair’s group head of global services, provides insight into the recent EPA rulings on PFAS compounds, exploring their impact on public water utilities and the broader implications for industries nationwide. He also discusses the expected surge in demand for PFAS advisory, testing, and remediation services, and examines the technologies poised to address the issue.
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Private Wealth Management
Estate Planning Checklist
Estate planning is a method for determining how to distribute your property during your life and at your death. William Blair published an organizer to help facilitate the process.
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Equity Research
The Emerging Shift in Economic Growth Drivers
In this week’s Economics Weekly, William Blair Macro Analyst Richard de Chazal reexamines America’s trajectory and what this could mean for the structure of growth dynamics going forward.
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Investment Banking
The Quarterly Rx: Q2 2024 U.S. Biopharma Recap
After a strong start to the year, the biopharma sector faced renewed headwinds in Q2 2024 including a more hawkish outlook from the Federal Reserve.
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Becoming a Parent: 10 Steps to Financially Prepare for a Growing Family
Tips for making sure your loved ones are protected.
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Getting Married: 5 Financial Considerations
How to successfully merge financial lives with your partner.
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Beginning Your Career and Understanding Your Finances
Tips for managing your money as you start your career.
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Investment Management
Embracing the Qualitative
We believe cashflow, financial returns, and other traditional quantitative markers of performance provide a good picture of present-day quality, but more difficult-to-quantify qualitative attributes indicate a company’s enduring quality.
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Investment Management
Meticulous Bottom-Up Analysis
While we account for macroeconomic factors in our analysis, we believe we add the greatest value for clients through our rigorous approach to fundamental analysis—delving into business models and industry economics.
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Investment Management
Understanding Management Motivation
Because management decisions are a key driver of company performance, we work to become deeply familiar with the mindset and temperament of each management team.
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Investment Management
Entrepreneurial Environment
Just as we believe in giving everyone on the team a voice, we create an environment where everyone has the opportunity to take on real responsibilities, regardless of tenure, and colleagues feel a sense of ownership because they’ve grown with the team.
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