Regulatory uncertainty and lack of access to familiar investment vehicles currently keep most advisers on the sidelines, but a study finds 44% expect to be working with cryptocurrencies within five years.
Surveys of investors and financial advisers show a disconnect between what investors want with regard to environmental, social and governance strategies, and what most advisers think their clients want.
The big increase in the U.S. M1 money supply could lead to inflationary pressures that will increase risks for the fixed-income portion of a 60-40 portfolio allocation.
Investors plowed $1.25 billion into the BlackRock U.S. Carbon Transition Readiness ETF Thursday, making it the biggest launch in the ETF industry’s three-decade history.
The impact of addressing sustainable issues, from climate change to racial and social justice, has become a compelling investment case and, just as important, not factoring in these issues represents an investment risk.
Assessing the murky family-office world presents challenges, such as sorting out the different types. The SEC had targeted family office oversight for review this year even before the Archegos blowup.
UBS has been hit with a rash of arbitration claims over strategies investors say damaged them, and most recently it saw a wave of investor complaints over Puerto Rico bonds and bond funds.
The fund will be employ ESG criteria and will be sub-advised by Ariel Investments.
One bad broker making big bets or selling lousy or misunderstood products can damage or even ruin a firm. Are firms doing enough to keep those brokers and high-risk behaviors in check?
Former chief compliance officer Michael Cohn was also fined $50,000. A former Securities and Exchange Commission examiner, he was charged in October 2019 with obstruction of justice relating to an SEC investigation of GPB.
Ulf Erlandsson spends his time pushing fixed-income investors and bankers to face up to the risks posed by climate change and their role in underwriting a warmer planet.
74% of women are interested in increasing the share of environmental, social and governance investments in their portfolio, according to an RBC survey of U.S. clients.
The company says it will convert its $39 billion Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into an exchange-traded fund as soon as U.S. regulators allow.
The asset manager will undergo a third-party audit of its operations following a request from a shareholder.
Since 2017, the firm has been on the hook for $16 million in legal settlements and restitution to clients, with the lion's share stemming from one broker's sale of alternative investments to a Native American tribe in Michigan.
A surge into equities fueled the record, but bond ETFs also grew, State Street Global Advisors reports.
Errors in computer-generated reports on mutual funds lead to a classic Twitter dust-up in which a disgruntled fund manager challenged the company's analysis of his funds.
Goldman Sachs enters the race to offer wealth management clients access to Bitcoin following Morgan Stanley. Which wirehouse could be next?
The flipside of the new Innovator Capital Management products is the performance is capped and they can be more expensive than some of the cheaper indexed options.
The two asset management giants were among 43 firms with more than $22.8 trillion of assets that signed onto the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative.
