Portfolio management

With promises of potentially beating the market, actively managed ETFs can appear attractive to investors. But with higher fees and more potential volatility, are they worth it?

Nearly 80% of the respondents to a recent advisor survey conducted by the asset management giant Blackstone said they plan to recommend more alternative investments in 2025.

Opportunistic competitors anticipating trades are swooping in first, moving prices, according to a recent study.

Advisors say they are watching these changes closely, making portfolio adjustments where needed and generally reassuring nervous clients that they have planned for this sort of volatility.

Out of more than 2,000 moves reducing prices over nearly 50 years, the company says this round represents the largest in its history.

Advisors using Orion Trading can now connect directly into Pontera to integrate clients' 401(k)s, 403(b)s and other held-away accounts.

Funds that use Section 351 conversions are rolling out in 2025, led by the launch of one with the ticker TAX. Here's what financial advisors and investors should know.

Regulators took the wirehouses to task for not having policies directing advisors to consider clients' best interests.

A Tax Court ruling that limited partners in an investment manager must pay Uncle Sam could cause some restructuring across the industry, an expert said.

The asset management giant called out the method of offsetting capital gains in this year's edition of its oft-cited study tracking the "alpha" of financial planning.

Edward Jones stood accused of not properly supervising advisors who were charging clients commissions for mutual funds and then moving the fund shares over to fee-generating accounts.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

ESG and like investments have come under fire, but a US SIF report seems to see some positivity in the sector despite concerns about greenwashing and greenhushing.

The funds, although unlikely to be profitable on their own, are seen as a way to find clients for other services offered by Morgan Stanley.

Unlike SRIs and impact investing, the only goal of ESG investments is to generate returns for investors.

Energy investments can be volatile individually, but in many cases the aggregate can be a solid investment.