This year brought renewed war between Israel and Hamas, a devastating earthquake in Turkey and the downfall of some of the crypto world’s most prominent kingpins.
But it also brought great advances in advancing technologies like electric vehicles and artificial intelligence, one of the strongest stock market rallies in years and signs that the economy may be headed for a soft landing after all.
Sometimes it’s easy to let all the bad that happens in a year overshadow the good. As much as that can be said for global events, it’s just as true for the smaller world of financial planning.
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Lest the bad actors in wealth management take all the attention away from the good, we’ve drawn up a little list of some of our more encouraging stories from the past year. But as a reminder that not everything is exactly as we might wish, we’ve interlarded it with some of the more unfortunate incidents as well.
In keeping with the season, we’re calling it our “naughty and nice” list. Scroll down to see who made it.