Evercore Wealth Management
It’s been more than a year since I – and I’m guessing you – enjoyed a live performance. I’ve been hooked on the theater since 1961 when my parents took me to see Camelot, the Lerner and Loewe musical starring…
The vanguard of the Baby Boomers came of age at a challenging time in America; I turned 21 in 1968, a year in which none of us knew what would happen next. Now we’re coming into our old age during…
Fifty years ago, I was attending business school and marching up and down Wall Street – but not the way you might think, at least not at first. Back then, I was marching as an organizer of a group called…
This pandemic is testing the resilience of our society, our organizations, and our portfolios. There’s a long road ahead, but it seems to me that we are coping and will prevail. I see great resilience all around me, from our…
Editor’s note: Chris Zander takes over at the start of 2020 as CEO of Evercore Wealth Management and Evercore Trust Company. He is a founding partner and leads strategic wealth planning and trust and fiduciary services, working directly with clients…
How do you know when it’s time to retire? A younger colleague asked me that the other day. It’s such an important question and there is so much to consider, but I didn’t hesitate in answering. But first, the forks on…
Jeff and Mackenzie Bezos married in their 20s, probably without a thought for a prenuptial agreement, worked very hard, raised four children, and accumulated some wealth along the way. Now, in common with soaring numbers of middle-age and older Americans,…
Editor’s note: Ralph Schlosstein joined Evercore in 2009 to help grow the firm into the leading global independent investment bank. He previously co-founded BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, and served as the firm’s president for almost 20 years. He…
The charm of anticipated success. That’s how Alexis de Tocqueville described the American spirit, 200 years after John Winthrop laid out his vision to fellow colonists and about 100 years before a historian coined the phrase “The American Dream.” The…