Investment strategies

Industry experts say the new team of 25 investment specialists seems designed to tackle the more esoteric aspects of working with wealthy clients and leave asset gathering and relationship management to advisors.

If there's one thing we should have learned by now, it's that the constant state of change in our industry is driven by advances in technology.

Wealthy clients and other accredited investors should consider drilling deductions, opportunity zones and 1031 exchanges in 2025, an expert says.

In December, the BlackRock Investment Institute stated that giving bitcoin a 1% to 2% weighting would produce a similar share of profile risk as the so-called Magnificent Seven technology stocks in a standard 60/40 portfolio.

The tax-efficient, low-cost funds may have an even greater advantage over traditional mutual funds due to the IRS's lack of a definition for "substantially identical" securities.

High-yield cash opportunities, alternative investments, ETFs and short term bonds received renewed interest.

The iShares Bitcoin Trust (ticker IBIT) smashed industry records in its launch year of 2024.

Experts say the playing field has fundamentally changed as fractional ownership and other paths to access make alternative investments increasingly available.

From trending independence to the rise in AI in wealth management, these stories and series dove deep on issues of utmost importance to financial advisors in 2024.

Trump returns to the White House promising both deregulation and tariffs, the Fed considers whether to keep dropping interest rates or not and markets, which hit new highs in 2024, are watching it all closely in the new year.