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Greg Hopper is a senior fellow at the Bank Policy Institute.

Curiosity and a willingness to slay sacred cows made Barry Ritholtz into one of the financial industry's sharpest — and sharpest-tongued — analysts.

The founder of the private-equity backed RIA says he's interested in further acquisitions but doesn't want to be "growing for growth's sake."

The growing fixed-income products carry some risks, but their returns this year are attracting more financial advisors and their clients, according to experts.

The deal values closely held Fisher Investments at $12.75 billion and is part of the founder's estate planning, according to the firm.

Layla Kennington is an intern for Bond Buyer through the Dow Jones News Fund. She is a rising senior at Tufts University studying International Relations and Arabic. An aspiring business reporter, she was a features editor for the Tufts Daily and news editor for the Tufts Observer.

The Internal Revenue Service is setting up a new unit to target the use of basis shifting between related parties as a way for partnerships to avoid paying taxes.

In less than one year since taking over Orion, CEO Natalie Wolfsen has embarked on a massive journey to fully integrate the firm into an open architecture, holistic platform. Part of that plan includes employees coming into the office more.

Olivia Krylov is an associate at Capco, interested in the banking and payments, risk and regulatory, and security and privacy spaces.

She currently works out of Capco's Chicago office and is on a payments engagement assessing the security of the clients payment rails. She has also supported a DEI engagement developing the financial institutions overall strategy, as well as a small team working on financial and regulatory consulting for a financial services firm. She has previous experience in consulting both through internships and in an academic context.

Christopher Senackerib is a senior consultant at Capco.

He has worked as a project manager and business analyst on projects across investment management and capital markets organizations. Prior to joining Capco he worked at a boutique financial services consulting firm, delivering capital markets technology projects, and he previously managed a team providing investor and market intelligence data at a fintech firm.