Risk management

The SEC, FINRA and NASAA issued an investor alert warning of fraud, fees and tax complications for self-driven retirement accounts that invest in alternative assets.

Research firm Cerulli reports that investing in private equity, real estate and other alternatives was up 23% in 2022.

The new year brings new regulations and the end of grace periods from federal and self regulators.

FINRA warned brokers in its latest annual report about not being fully up to speed with the client-care rule.

Government watchdogs propose more oversight amid collapse of crypto and falling markets.

The top U.S. financial regulators are worried about the prospect of deeper ties between digital-asset firms and Wall Street.

Publicly traded companies exposed to the "crypto winter" and the collapse of FTX or other digital-asset companies might have to disclose those details to investors under new guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Moves by cryptocurrency exchanges to reassure markets about their stability are having little effect on jittery users, who keep pulling funds from the venues.

The founder of the JLL Income Property Trust non-traded REIT thinks real estate deserves a place on advisors' list of alternative investments.

In hindsight, Sam Bankman-Fried's April interview with Bloomberg's "Odd Lots" podcast was a harbinger of his epic collapse last week. He described a "box" that has value only because other people put money in it, and, when confronted with the idea that he described a Ponzi scheme, admitted there was a "depressing amount of validity" to that.