When you retire, you don’t have to travel the world to expand your horizons. You can grow wherever you live. In our October retirement panel event, we explored several ways to make the most of your retirement.

Welcome to the first series of videos on the Hilltop Views blog! We just held our quarterly investment review and wanted to share what we are seeing in investments around the world.

One of the great joys we experience as advisors is living vicariously through clients of ours who are traveling the world. Often, this is the payoff for years of hard work and careful planning. So we were excited to host an educational panel recently, “Envision the Retirement of Your Dreams”, with speakers discussing a range of ways to make the most of your time after the career phase of life.

As the leaves turn and college sports kick into gear, we love what the Triangle offers this time of year. If you’re looking for the best ways to celebrate the season with family and friends, here are some of the things we are looking forward to.

Whether you’re collaborating on an annual report or organizing your favorite charity’s annual fundraiser, the team’s success depends on how well you work together. Good teamwork isn’t happenstance – the team’s chemistry can and should be built intentionally.

As you have probably heard by now, the Equifax credit bureau reported last week that their database was infiltrated by criminals between May and July of this year. According to Equifax, the criminals gathered information on 143 million people, including names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and some driver’s license numbers.

We take it for granted now that the world is becoming more globalized every year. This can be seen in the production of goods – NPR’s Planet Money produced a series in 2013 following the production of a simple T-shirt, showing how cotton makes its way from the US to Asia or South America for production and back again to the US for sale.

For many families, summer marks the time for transition as the children prepare for (or continue) their college education. This usually coincides with the children reaching the age of majority, which in North Carolina is 18 years old.

In this post, we’ll explore costs, advantages and disadvantages of some the options in senior living, as discussed by the panel of specialists hosted by Hilltop in May.

You probably hate uncertainty, and you probably don’t like to think about becoming physically dependent, dying, or aging in a nursing home. Put all of this together, and it can be hard to even think about where you’ll live as you age, who will take care of you, or how you’ll pay for it all.

When you truly trust the people you work with, you aren’t afraid to be locked up with them, at least for a little while. At Hilltop, we recently put our mutual trust to the test and went to an escape room for a little bit of team building.

In my spare time, I enjoy training for and running obstacle course races. These involve such challenges as crawling through mud, climbing over walls, and experiencing mild electric shocks. Fun, right?