Investments

Arete Wealth’s niche focus on alts for HNW and UHNW clients has given it a strong foothold in a fractured sector, experts say.

President Biden has picked Allison Herren Lee, a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, as the acting chair of the SEC, as nominee Gary Gensler waits in the wings as a more permanent chair once he is confirmed by the Senate.

ETFs targeting the hottest investment themes have lost as much as 5% per year on a risk-adjusted basis between 2000 and 2019, research shows.

The fund has returned about 42% since its April 7 launch compared to an 8.9% gain for its benchmark over the same period.

The top 20 carried an average expense ratio of more than three times the broader industry.

“There is an advantage to funding the debt, especially when interest rates are very low, by issuing long-term debt," Janet Yellen said during her Senate confirmation hearing.

The new fund, expected to begin trading next quarter, will carry an expense ratio of less than half the new actively managed offering.

The pending nominations send a clear signal that the rule-cutting and lax enforcement the industry has grown accustomed to under President Trump are over.

For investors, Biden represents an attitude shift from the era of Trump, who famously made the Dow a barometer of his success.

The investment plays on a trend, “which is the blurring of the distinction between traditional insurance products and wealth management products.”

The firm is the latest in a line of big money managers making a late entry into the $5.6 trillion ETF market.

These 20 mutual funds and ETFs here are home to roughly $45 billion in assets.

Founder Nancy Davis says her recently converted long-only product reflects the direction of travel for the broader asset management industry.

The flood follows a strong Democratic showing in last week’s runoff elections in Georgia, which tipped the Senate’s control to President-elect Biden’s party.

The move is about “expanding access to high quality growth investing to non-accredited investors,” says Upholdings CEO Robert Cantwell.

Probabilistic forecasts provide a durable framework for a sound financial future, the author says, and offers some for the new year.

The top 20 more than doubled the gains of their fixed-income industry peers.

“The expectation of sustained volatility in the medium term has re-invigorated hedge fund appeal,” BlackRock and Juniper Place said in their report.

The top 20 to debut last year by total assets include only three products from BlackRock and none from Vanguard or State Street.

VanEck’s proposal comes at a time when the cryptocurrency has continued to set record highs.