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  • Client Focus

    Behind the Business of Women’s Sports

    Growing investment has helped reshape the business of women’s sports. Now, investors are looking more closely at what separates one opportunity from another.

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  • Client Focus

    The Business of Making a Difference

    William Blair Chief Operating Officer Beth Satterfield explains how business leaders can use their experience, perspective, and relationships to drive community impact—and why the benefits often flow both ways.

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  • Equity Research

    What’s Winning the Consumer Over?

    Consumers continue to spend—but increasingly on their own terms. William Blair Equity Research explores how changing perceptions of price, quality, and value are reshaping the consumer landscape.

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  • Brent Gledhill
    Client Focus

    CEO Perspective: Shifting Influence, Emerging Opportunities

    In a landscape dominated by fast-moving headlines, the most meaningful opportunities tend to develop gradually. Brent Gledhill examines the long-term shifts shaping wealth, consumer behavior, business, and communities.

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  • Client Focus

    Building on Our Approach to Women’s Wealth

    The Women’s Wealth Advisory builds on the firm’s longstanding approach to personalized wealth management—bringing together resources and guidance to meet women wherever they are in their financial lives.

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  • Client Focus

    Finding Opportunity in What’s Missing

    An unmet need can be the starting point for a business. Three founders share what they saw in the market and what it took to build something different.

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  • Investment Banking

    Another Quarter, More Growth for Secondaries

    Despite persistent macro headwinds, momentum continues in the secondary market and industry insiders have adjusted their expectations upward yet again.

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  • Private Wealth Management

    Strengthening Financial Resilience in the Nonprofit Sector

    A recent William Blair event explored how planned giving, revenue diversification, and scenario planning can help organizations prepare for uncertainty and build for the future.

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  • Equity Research

    Rethinking the Economics of Employer Health Benefits

    Rising healthcare costs are pushing employers to reconsider how they fund, purchase, and manage health benefits.

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  • Investment Banking

    The Quarterly Rx: Q3 2026 U.S. BiopharmaRecap

    U.S. biopharma entered the third quarter with meaningful momentum, though the market became more selective as the quarter progressed.

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  • Equity Research

    Economics Weekly: Special Report—Run-Up to the 2026 Midterms

    As November 3 midterm elections draw closer, investors are increasingly starting to think about what the potential outcomes might mean for financial market performance.

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  • Equity Research

    Rising Prices Are Testing the Limits of Rideshare Demand

    Rideshare demand remains resilient, but growing price fatigue could challenge future growth.

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  • Private Wealth Management

    Financial Guide to Settling the Affairs of a Loved One

    Losing a loved one can be very difficult. Yet, as an executor, spouse, or family member, you need to take steps to ensure that your loved one’s financial affairs are properly settled.

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  • Private Wealth Management

    Let’s Talk About Money: Women and Financial Conversations

    Senior Vice President Kelly Oliven shares how greater financial knowledge and open dialogue can help women take greater ownership of their wealth.

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