Investments

A hunt for heavily-short stocks has delivered millions of dollars to wealthy executives and investors.

The firm said high volume may have curtailed access to its mobile app and urged clients to use its other platforms.

Three provisions in the far-reaching law “make it likely that annuities will become more prevalent in company plans,” one expert says.

Some advisory firms have already started narrowing their lists of funds considered eligible for retirement plans based on Trump’s decision to overhaul ERISA.

The quant manager has been warning for years that investor objectives are going to be increasingly hard to meet amid “soberingly low” gains.

Tax professionals are starting to hear questions from their clients ahead of the official start of tax season about a variety of issues related to COVID-19.

Investors with an advisor were more than twice as likely to say that they are very confident that they have the best investment strategy, a survey found.

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.