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Institutional investors back in charge of stock market as Fed awakens big money

Retail buying dwarfed by institutional selling in January as the value of daily trading rises faster than the number of shares.

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Merchant Investment Management takes stake in Minnesota RIA

Summit Investment Advisory Services manages $490 million for clients in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Florida.

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ETFs give advisers varied tools for fighting inflation

The new Amplify Inflation Fighter ETF joins a short list of strategies designed to hedge and leverage price pressures.

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Carlyle pledges net zero by 2050

The PE firm emphasized working with companies to change their practices rather than divesting from those with unfavorable climate change characteristics.

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Behind that bombshell shareholder vote at Costco

Several institutional investors favored a resolution to reduce the company's greenhouse gas emissions, which passed with 70% approval

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Cryptocurrency giant launches push to become ‘world-class ETF issuer’

Future of Finance ETF is designed to track companies that are 'actively building and advancing the digital economy.'

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Private equity influence on wealth management is big and getting bigger

The 38 direct PE investments in wealth management last year compares to 23 in 2020 and 11 in 2019. Now PE is eyeing the wealthtech space.

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River Wealth Advisors sells minority stake to Merchant Investment Management

Merchant insists the noncontrolling investment is distinct from traditional private equity capital, which often comes with a short-term commitment.

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60/40 portfolio suffers worst loss since March 2020

Both equities and bond prices dropped sharply in January as markets priced in a faster pace of interest-rate tightening during 2022 from the Federal Reserve.

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The rise of the crypto robo-advisors

Recent market volatility is making crypto robos more appealing in the traditionally passive world of digital advice.

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Rising crypto star faces SEC, volatile markets

Ophelia Snyder, 29, is already managing $2.5 billion. She is now teaming up with Cathie Wood to bring a Bitcoin ETF to the U.S. — if regulators allow it.

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SEC keeps up pressure on private fund advisers

Under Chairman Gary Gensler, the agency is taking a closer look at private equity, hedge funds.

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Firm spices up Bitcoin IRA option with in-app game

Choice is adding a Price-Is-Right-style game that rewards account holders with small amounts of Bitcoin that are added to their retirement savings.

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Crypto collapse sheds new light on loyalty to digital assets

Without saying 'I told you so,' advisers are reminding their clients that investing in crypto will be stomach churning.

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Crypto firms Celsius Network, Gemini face SEC scrutiny

The SEC enforcement review focuses on whether the companies’ offerings should be registered as securities, people say.

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Finra approves Winklevoss crypto exchange Gemini

Now that it has broker-dealer status, Gemini Galactic Markets can operate an alternative trading system that will facilitate the trading of digital asset securities.

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$2 billion in GWG junk bonds sold by advisers are under pressure

GWG Holdings Inc., an investor in life settlements, missed $13.6 million in payments this month to investors in its L Bonds.

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Massachusetts says Fidelity rubber-stamped options applications

Regulator's complaint details examples of repeated applications – in some instances as many as 13 in one month.

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The latest in financial #AdviserTech — January 2022 — Part 2

The major trends underway in the financial adviser ecosystem, and what those trends portend for the year to come.

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Southwestern Investment Group is latest RIA to partner with private equity

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.