News & Insights

We recently initiated a quarterly book club in the H+D office, and expect to make our thoughts on these books a regular feature of this publication. The inaugural selection was Cory Doctorow’s 2025, “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It”, which turned out to be a somewhat depressing first entry. […]

These last few weeks, investor attention has shifted away from all-things AI to the latest conflict in the Middle East. But when the clash ends, sooner rather than later we hope, AI will once again take center stage and for good reason. This rapidly evolving technology has the capacity to fundamentally alter key aspects of […]

From Visual Capitalist, an infographic on the energy mix used by the world’s top economies

Every so often, we like to bring the people behind the scenes to the front pages. It has been a couple years since we last did so, and since then we’ve added some new faces and evolved some of our roles. We firmly believe the reason clients stay with us is for the people—they form […]

…and the winner is, childcare! More on that later. For now, welcome to the 40th year of the Hanson Index, our annual look at the cost of everyday life in Burlington. What began as a simple snapshot of local prices has become a record of how inflation reshapes our financial reality. Let’s start with a […]

The S&P 500’s total return for 2025 is currently around 17%, following 25% in 2024 and 27% in 2023. Especially with all this AI bubble-talk, it does not feel like a stretch to suggest these returns are unlikely to last. So why not sell now and “lock in” these gains? The investor Peter Lynch provides […]

This week’s release of employment data revealed a tepid labor market. Nonfarm payrolls declined approximately 40,000 over the past two months and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.6% with both results softer than expected. Investors and policymakers alike will continue to keep a keen eye on future releases for clues as to the nation’s […]

Every year, the Investment Committee at H+D spends hundreds of hours reading about a wide range of topics, everything from the impact of tariffs on economic growth to the rising price of random-access memory (RAM). This is, without a doubt, what keeps our work interesting and, hopefully, useful. Listed below are several data points that […]

We have reached the much-anticipated time of year when all of us at Hanson+Doremus compete to see who can prepare the best chocolate recipe. On a recent afternoon in December, our office was abuzz as we unveiled our best efforts and got down to the “hard work” of taste-testing and judging each entry to the […]

The recent $7.5 billion IPO of South Burlington’s own Beta Technologies intrigued many of our clients at Hanson + Doremus, particularly those in Vermont, a state which rarely generates new sizable public companies. While the hype and excitement surrounding IPOs have been a staple of both the financial and general media since the dotcom boom, […]

Big changes are coming to the Medicare Advantage marketplace, and if you’re over 65, it’s worth paying attention to the notices you may be receiving in the mail. The last thing anyone wants is a surprise coverage gap. Let’s start with the basics. Medicare covers people 65 and older. Part A handles hospital stays and […]