New rules pushing wealth managers to disclose fee structures and explain AI-driven investment recommendations are reshaping client expectations across the industry. Yet Michael Gold, founder of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, contends that these measures treat symptoms rather than the underlying cause. Gold has built his firm’s reputation over 25 years around a different…

Modern children’s books do more than entertain, and Greg Soros author knows that as well as anyone writing in the genre today. His stories often carry social-emotional lessons, but he is careful that those lessons never announce themselves on the page. “The best approach doesn’t feel didactic,” Soros has said of his own process, and…

Financial advisors are getting older, and a lot of them are heading for the door. Close to half of all financial advisors plan to retire by 2035, according to industry data cited by Michael Gold, founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, a wave that threatens to leave many ultra wealthy families…

For more than sixteen years, Greg Soros Author has built a career on the idea that a children’s book should do more than fill an afternoon. It should help a child make sense of the world. Soros, whose stories are read in classrooms and bedrooms alike, has spent his career refining a simple belief: young…

Long before he ran a multibillion-dollar company, Michael Polk was a young engineer working a swing shift inside a Pennsylvania paper mill. It was 1982, and Polk had just graduated from Cornell University when Procter & Gamble offered him a supervisory role on one of seven papermaking machines at the plant. He accepted the job…

Colcom Foundation describes its central purpose in direct terms: fostering a sustainable environment to protect quality of life for all Americans. That mission centers on addressing the major causes and consequences of overpopulation, along with its effects on natural resources. It is a framing that sets the organization apart from groups focused narrowly on pollution…

The private equity market has split into two tracks. At the top, 47 megadeals valued at $5 billion or more closed through the first nine months of 2025, pacing 31% above 2024’s count, per PwC. Below that tier, mid-market sponsors are competing for a narrowing pool of quality assets while fund-stage constraints press harder on…

The Colcom Foundation has now distributed more than $500 million in grants since its founding in 1996, a milestone that places it among the more prominent private funders operating in Western Pennsylvania. Founder Cordelia Scaife May established the organization with a focus on environmental conservation and sustainable population policy. Established with a vision to enhance…

At nineteen, Justin Fulcher left Clemson University for a three month trip to Southeast Asia that stretched into seven years. He had already learned to code at age seven and started a business as a teenager, so a traditional campus in Charleston, South Carolina felt too slow for someone eager to build something of his…

Most advice about writing for children starts with wants and goals. Greg Soros Author takes a different route. After more than fifteen years crafting stories for young readers, he has landed on a single question that guides every character he builds: what does this character need to learn? “The most important question isn’t ‘What does…