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The insurance market outlook for 2025 shows stabilization in several areas, with continued challenges and evolving risks across property, casualty, executive and professional risk, aviation, environmental, and international lines. In a dynamic yet cautious market, insurers are adapting to changing conditions, regulatory pressures, and emerging threats. Moving forward, organizations are encouraged to utilize risk control strategies to present their accounts favorably to insurance carriers, and to leverage all available tools to align asset values with industry standards.

The myriad of challenges in 2024 significantly impacted operations, budgeting, and workforce management for all organizations in 2025. Leveraging strategic solutions will be essential for optimizing benefits, controlling costs, and supporting employees’ overall well-being in 2025.

With the U.S. election results in 2024 setting the stage for significant changes in tax legislation, the administration is expected to prioritize extending the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) and potentially repealing parts of the Inflation Reduction Act, which may lead to adjustments in corporate taxes and individual tax provisions. As we navigate these changes, it is important for individuals and businesses to stay informed and proactive in their planning approach.

When evaluating Family Enterprise Advisors, you need to feel confident in the advisor’s competency, objectivity, and responsiveness to your needs. Giving someone access to the most significant parts of your life can be challenging, which is why following four key tips will help with your advisor selection and choose a trustworthy advisor you can rely on to get the results you need.

Get ready to comply with the five new data privacy laws that will come into effect in January 2025 in Delaware, Nebraska, Iowa, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. With the active enforcement by several states’ Attorneys General and a trend toward broader applicability, data privacy compliance is becoming increasingly important and complex. Companies should carefully evaluate whether they are subject to any laws coming into effect and take steps to ensure compliance.

The IRS has released the 2025 cost-of-living adjustments for pension and 401(k) plan limitations. The indexed amounts for 2022 to 2025, and other commonly used limits are listed in this summary.

Preparing yourself and your family can be one of the most overlooked parts of a business sale and exit strategy. But it goes beyond maximizing tax efficiency and unlocking newfound wealth—it’s a monumental transition filled with emotional considerations. This article outlines key questions and critical areas of considerations for business owners and provides a hypothetical case study of how a company founder can maximize after-tax proceeds from a sale.

“You only sell your company once” is a phrase founder/family-owned business leaders often hear before embarking on a major liquidity event. It demonstrates the enormity of the undertaking to effectively sell a business. Ensuring your company is prepared for a sale is crucial to any exit strategy, and should be considered long before beginning a sale process. This article outlines key questions that business owners should expect and aspire to have answers to leading up to a liquidity, followed by four critical focus areas that are important for them to consider.

Family offices of every size and type can serve as unknowing gateways to sensitive data and personal information due to their extensive financial dealings and relatively low maturity in cyber preparedness. These vulnerabilities make family offices attractive targets to threat actors who may not even need sophisticated hacking skills to compromise an organization’s security.

As the new U.S. federal landscape takes shape, this outlook report is designed to provide key insights into policy implications and how they may impact various industries in 2025, including agriculture, energy and environment, healthcare, tax, technology, trade, and transportation and infrastructure.