The major trends underway in the financial adviser ecosystem, and what those trends portend for the year to come.
The Tennessee-based firm has sold a minority stake to Merchant Investment Management, citing the need to build scale in the fast-consolidating wealth management industry.
The UDF real estate dilemma has been unwinding for years. The UDF executives now face up to 25 years each in federal prison.
Lenox Wealth Advisors became Wealthspire over the weekend, with Private Capital Group and Private Ocean the next firms under NFP's umbrella to see name changes.
SPDR Gold Shares reports biggest inflow since listing in 2004.
Firm is waiting for clarity on ETF rules, CFO Portney says.
The $7.1 billion cryptocurrency exchange has agreed to purchase Bitria, a 5-year-old startup that provides advisers with tools to access and manage holdings of Bitcoin and other tokens.
The new products not only provide investment opportunities that aren't available on the open market, but can also combine a client’s passions — for things like antique cars or even musical instruments — with their investment portfolios.
As the number of publicly traded companies steadily declined over the past decade, investor interest in the private markets has increased markedly.
For many financial advisers, the slide reinforced the notion that Bitcoin is just too volatile for client portfolios.
Scams involving self-directed individual retirement accounts are another area of concern, according to an annual survey by the North American Securities Administrators Association.
The alternative investment provider increased assets on the platform to more than $104 billion last year. The secret could be its ability to combine multiple high-net-worth investors into a single private placement.
To skeptics, the crypto world as a whole is a mirage whose massive run-up past $2 trillion was simply the speculative by-product of the extraordinary amount of easy cash that’s been sloshing around in the global economy.
The settlement stemmed from potential claims related to Merrill's "management and oversight" of brokerage accounts opened by the owner of Jay Peak, the failed Vermont ski resort.
The agency said it needs another 60 days to make a determination, pushing the new deadline to March 16.
Emerson Equity and Triad Advisors reached end-of-the-year settlements related to complaints about poor supervision of certain mutual fund sales.
Investors have retreated from the most speculative corners of global markets of late, worried that an ebbing tide of central bank stimulus could spell trouble. Just how exposed Bitcoin and the wider crypto universe is to that risk is the subject of heated debate.
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Bitcoin’s share of the crypto market shrank dramatically over 2021 as other tokens rocketed, a sign of how investor interest in digital assets broadened out despite — or perhaps because of — enormous volatility.
The Toronto aggregator announced a twofer that combines for $10 billion in assets under management. The deals push CI’s U.S. footprint to $115 billion in assets.
