Wealth Management News & Insights – July 27, 2025

Wealth Management News & Insights

Parents and Graduate Students Have New Loan Limits, Meet the Fully Autonomous Farm, Emmy Nominations 2025

 

 

 

Primary Sources

• Federal Reserve Beige Book – July 2025: Economic activity increased slightly from late May through early July. Five Districts reported slight or modest gains, five had flat activity, and the remaining two Districts noted modest declines in activity. [FRB]
• What We Watched the First Half of 2025: We’re sharing our latest Engagement Report, highlighting what Netflix members watched from January through June 2025. [Netflix]

 

 

The chart above shows the most-watched movies on Netflix in the first half of 2025. Back In Action, Straw, and The Life List had the most views.

 

Financial Markets

• AI Is Dividing the Fortunes of the Magnificent Seven: The AI race is splintering big tech names, with investors pointing to a divergence in business approach and stock performance. [WSJ]
• What Chip-Stock Investors Are Missing About Tariffs: Chip-company valuations are rising, but trade tensions are already causing trouble. [WSJ]

 

Financial Planning

• Parents and Graduate Students Have New Loan Limits. Who Will Fill the Gap?: The federal cap on the amounts people can borrow means some of them will fall short. That’s especially true for students in professional schools. [NYT]
• Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Includes These Key Tax Changes for 2025: Provisions include permanent extensions of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, along with boosts for the standard deduction and child tax credit. There are also new temporary deductions for older Americans, tips, overtime income and auto loan interest. [CNBC]

 

Business Strategy

• Are Diamonds Even a Luxury Anymore? De Beers Reckons With Price Plunge: The brand made mined diamonds synonymous with love and devotion. Now the CEO decries what he calls a ‘huge con’ in lab-grown stones masquerading as precious. [WSJ]
• Drones, AI and Robot Pickers: Meet the Fully Autonomous Farm: New technologies are paving the way for farms that can run themselves, with minimal human input. [WSJ]
• The Robots That Are Taking Over Your Food Delivery: Technology removing humans in effort to make restaurant delivery faster and better. [WSJ]
• Coca-Cola to Launch Cane Sugar-Based Coke in US this Autumn: Move follows Donald Trump’s announcement that company would move away from using high-fructose corn syrup. [FT]

 

 

This chart tracks TSA checkpoint traveler numbers as a percentage of 2019 volumes, providing a benchmark for pre-pandemic travel activity. Data is shown on a bi-monthly basis to highlight trends in travel demand and the pace of recovery over time.

 

Life & Work

• The Art Market Has Become a Hamster Wheel — Can Its Players Afford to Step Off?: The biggest auction houses have found pockets of growth in luxury collectibles — but others are questioning the relentless grind. [FT]
• Emmy Nominations 2025: ‘Severance’ Leads All Shows With 27 Nods, ‘The Penguin,’ ‘The Studio’ and ‘White Lotus’ Close Behind. [Variety]
• Chef Nobu Matsuhisa On the One Quality that Makes for a Good Chef: Matsuhisa, whose Japanese restaurant Nobu has 50 locations around the world, says celebrities trust his food: ‘That’s why they keep coming’. [WSJ]
• Do You Need to Drink Electrolytes?: They’re in sports drinks, powders and tablets. But do they really help with hydration? [NYT]
• Packers Say They Received Record $432.6M in Revenue Sharing: Eighteen years ago, when Mark Murphy gave his first financial report after taking over as president of the Packers, the NFL’s revenue sharing was $138 million per team. [ESPN]
• The Billion-Dollar Question Looming Over College Sports: Do booster groups count as businesses? A huge portion of athlete pay depends on the answer. [WSJ]