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The fintech’s new executive says cryptocurrency will help communities that the financial services industry isn’t serving.

The firm has struggled to make money this year amid the market volatility sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A significant push to use the precious metal as portfolio insurance may create a self-reinforcing spiral that upends its appeal as a hedge.

The pandemic and work-from-home arrangements are probably spurring larger budgets.

The framework provides asset managers with a set of recommended actions, metrics and methodologies to help them meet the “net-zero emissions” goal by 2050.

The funds have recorded $248 billion in net inflows in 2020, up about 5% from this time last year.

The alternative asset manager surpassed its previous peak from the fourth quarter of 2017.

The scant personal details that do surface depict a clan allergic to the limelight, scornful of excess and almost comically unpretentious.

The 20 top-performers have generated gains well over 50% in the first seven months of the year.

The change bars money managers from using some types of business entities to take advantage of an exemption to rules laid out in the 2017 tax law.

The “set it and forget it” balanced approach may not work as well anymore, an expert says.

A combination of GLD’s higher fees and an almost relentless demand for the yellow metal have catapulted it from fourth on the revenue leader board in 2017.

Fintechs are facing unique challenges in the pandemic. There might be a resurgence in funding on the horizon, but startups are looking to see what they can do now to weather the storm.

About two dozen advisors are using the software now, and the firm is making changes based on their feedback, an executive says.

The asset manager has become one of the fastest-growing hedge funds at a time when many competitors are losing assets.

A severe recession could be enough to completely wipe out the capital and surplus of four insurance firms as well as hobble a handful of others, the NAIC finds.

The firm is dropping management fees on robo accounts with $10,000 to $50,000, turning to a minimal per-month charge instead.

The firm allegedly didn't disclose its parent company paid a teacher union entity $10,000 a month “for its exclusive endorsement” as its preferred financial services partner, according to the regulator.

Despite growing to about $1.1 trillion in AUM, senior executives made a series of bets to keep pace in a changing industry that have yet to pay off.

Trading under the ticker EFIV, the fund will exclude companies involved with tobacco-related products and weapons.