Investments

The first U.S. bank to offer an exchange-traded product tied to bitcoin saw $34 million in trading on the first day.

Exchange funds could help address some wealthy clients' concentration risks and tax quandaries at the same time.

One of the asset management firms also took home the independent research firm's overall award for "exemplary stewardship."

The intersection between HNW clients and private markets is no longer about distribution, but integration.

Advisors with asset minimums find themselves rejecting clients arbitrarily and can often feel disconnected from their clients' planning goals.

Rare book collectors can sometimes see a healthy return on an investment, but advisors and other experts say the market is illiquid, and volatile — and books require careful storage and preservation.

A recent downturn has highlighted the external factors weighing on the price, but experts say the fundamentals haven't changed.

The new state income tax is expected to make Washington munis, which are exempt, more attractive for high-earning residents.

Investors are looking to pull private investments, but strict withdrawal limits are causing angst.

The company's investment advisory subsidiary was dinged for failing to properly disclose that its allocation of certain client assets represented a conflict of interest.

José Torres, senior economist at Interactive Brokers, breaks down the FOMC decision and Fed Chair Jerome Powell's press conference.

Women often feel talked down to when it comes to financial matters. Advisors with experience serving women clients say the industry has a lot of work to do to change this.

Financial institutions that delay or fail to take this leap risk losing customers and revenue, said speakers at the inaugural On-Chain Executive Summit.

The National Legal and Policy Center has successfully urged companies like Goldman Sachs and American Express to remove DEI from their board selection process, but now it argues that SEC actions are restricting shareholder rights too much.

Following similar glitches at Lloyds and the London Metal Exchange, a tech outage at UBS has renewed scrutiny on modern banking platforms.

There's "no free lunch investing in private assets," the research firm said in its latest study of semiliquid assets — released a week before Blue Owl permanently shut the gate of a closely watched private credit fund.

The sales pitch that private equity funds outperform publicly available investments is drawing much more skepticism. Here are the murky signals in the sector.

The dispute highlights how control over assets in increasingly popular DAFs can become contested — and what that could mean for advisors and their clients.

The Pinpoint Policy Institute's public campaign against the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard reflects a mysterious phase of the ongoing debate on private investments in 401(k) plans.

An increasing number of warning signs point to a potential dot-com-level correction. So, how can advisors adjust client portfolios now?