Capital markets

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.

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.”

Cboe’s first new entry will be a suite of four volatility indexes with different tenors based on the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF.