Finance

Startup Breakaway Bookkeeping & Advising is building a network of finance professionals to act as virtual CFOs for small-business clients.

The manager joins firms including JPMorgan and Arena Investors in seeking opportunities in the sector, particularly in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Almost 90% of smaller fund managers would no longer have to report their investments and their firms would save $136 million a year, the agency estimates.

Investment advice firms netted hundreds of millions of dollars. Here’s where they’re based, what lenders they turned to, and more.

Mass exodus from the market has forced managers to dump securities to raise cash, sending prices tumbling the most in at least four decades.

Affluent investors are concerned about transparency, performance and value, according to a new report by Capgemini.

Its rivals have been building out their own insurance arms in recent years and have brought on executives who can help them attract more business.

The firm announced plans in March to acquire $200 million of its stock and has been in the market on average once every three trading days since.

The leaders raked in a combined $949 billion over the past decade.

A “distribution bump” from the commission-free trading trend that took hold late last year may be behind the surge, analysts say.

Jacob Gottlieb, whose $8 billion fund shuttered amid an insider trading scandal two years ago, received a $150,000 to $350,000 loan for his new shop.

Instead of a sale, Orion’s private equity backers are reinvesting to help grow the company’s presence in the TAMP marketplace.

The manager is still recovering from losses that started in 2015, when his main fund fell 20%, and deepened with a record 34% decline three years later.

The industry outranked asset classes including private equity and venture capital, which have historically ranked higher in a Credit Suisse survey.

As more active strategies embrace the exchange-traded model, the landscape may be shifting.

The privileged realms of American finance still look much the way they did a decade ago, or even two or three decades ago.

Speculative investors bought a net 206,227 S&P 500 E-mini contracts in the week to June 23, the most since 2007.

As much as $16 trillion of global wealth may be wiped away this year as a result of volatility and economic fallout from the pandemic.

Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia said retirement plans aren’t for “furthering social goals or policy objectives that are not in the financial interest of the plan.”

A new book could help advisors better grasp the difficulty with the topic of money among underserved client groups.