Wilkinson Wealth Management

It's July 1. Six months of 2026 are gone. ⏳

If you're like most of the people we work with, the year hasn’t gone exactly the way you sketched it out in January.

➔ Maybe the market did something you didn't expect, and your priorities look different from what they did six months ago.

➔ Maybe a parent's health changed, or an adult child needed help, or a grandchild arrived, and now the estate strategy you finalized two years ago doesn't quite match the family.

➔ Maybe the business had a better year than projected, or you’re managing through some other issues.

➔ Maybe you sold something, bought something, retired, semi-retired, or finally admitted you're not going to retire when you said you would.

Any one of those is a reason to revisit your approach before December, not after.

The clients who feel most in control of their financial lives are the ones who don't wait until year-end to find out what the year actually was.

El Niño has formed in the Pacific, and forecasters say it could become one of the strongest events on record.

El Niño is a natural warming pattern in the Pacific Ocean that can affect weather around the world. This cycle may increase the risk of extreme heat, floods, droughts, wildfires, and other costly weather disruptions.

NOAA says there is a 63% chance this El Niño could become intense enough to rank among the largest events in the historical record going back to 1950.

The potential impact is not limited to weather. Severe climate events can affect agriculture, energy demand, insurance costs, supply chains, transportation, and local economies.

For households and businesses, El Niño is as much an economic story as an environmental one.

El Nino is here and scientists fear it'll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires U.S. meteorologists say an El Nino has formed. That's the natural warming of parts of the Pacific that changes weather around the globe.