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In a business increasingly dominated by inexpensive index funds, the young juggernaut succeeded by actually picking good investments.

As asset managers create younger wholesaling teams, they're also adapting models that leverage digitally savvy hybrid roles.

There's a way to offer sound counsel to clients and also permit them the opportunity to take a profitable flier from time to time.

Despite the exodus, all of the mutual funds and ETFs on the list posted net gains for the year.

The four new types of funds use a so-called proxy basket and will publish some information about their portfolios every day.

The fund will track an index that divides the industry into five categories: pharmaceuticals, testing and analytics, cultivators, hemp and ancillary business.

Robo advice is “a feature, not a business,” one digital expert says

The $1.8 billion deal is expected to close in mid-2020.

Jeff Smith's dismissal was first announced in a memo by CEO Larry Fink and President Rob Kapito, who only said the executive had violated corporate policy.

"It's going to become increasingly more important for financial professionals to understand the potential benefits of sustainable investing," an exec says.

At a meeting last year, the firm’s CEO discussed how behavior would be held to a higher standard than rank-and-file employees, people familiar with the matter said.

“It’s going to become increasingly more important for financial professionals to understand the potential benefits of sustainable investing,” an executive says.

Brokerage firms that sell the funds must determine whether clients understand their risks — a requirement that could discourage offering them at all.

As the hedge fund manager nears a deal with the MLB team, he says his role as head of Point72 Asset Management will not change.

Like other bank-owned asset managers, the division is under pressure from new regulations such as MIFID II and a protracted shift toward passive investing.

Mark Wiseman, global head of active equities and frontrunner to succeed CEO Larry Fink, said he failed to disclose a consensual relationship with a colleague.

“There’s less performance chasing than you saw in the past, and that’s a positive thing,” an expert says.

The fund gained 22% last month, beating more than 1,970 rivals.

The planned launch from Cornerstone Capital would be the firm’s first stock fund for individual investors with social and environmental goals.

To stand out from the crowd, some issuers have embraced thematic strategies focused on niche investments that could become the next boom industry.