Portfolio strategies

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.

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.

Index deletions lag the market by more than half in the year leading up to their removal from an index, but they historically outperform the market for at least five years after the breakup.

A rapidly growing number currently use models suggested by a broker-dealer, TAMP, asset manager or third-party strategist provider without modification.

The founders of HPS will lead a new private financing business unit in BlackRock.

The new Granny Shots ETF from Fundstrat is built around large caps and has already drawn more than $400 million from investors.

Avoiding fund distributions or using offsetting losses in any month can deliver big savings on payments to Uncle Sam at the end of the year, experts say.

Experts and advisors say they are cautiously optimistic about the future of small caps in the coming years.

Quanative analysts are trying to learn whether private equtiy and similar vehicles can offer alpha — or a consistent ability to beat benchmarks like the S&P 500.

The two firms are among the many wealth managers now being sued over allegations that they failed to obtain fair returns for their clients on their uninvested cash.

Sales were mostly flat until 2020. Over the past four years though, they've nearly doubled.

The middle and later stages may have less potential for astronomical returns but still offer advantages for high net worth investors, experts tell FP.

Industry watchdogs worry lenders may be hiding troubled loans and are too entagled with insurance interests.

Robinhood is also planning to offer a browser-based trading system similar to products from Interactive Brokers Group and Charles Schwab

Since being first given the green light by regulators two years ago, there are now dozens of these new vehicles available on the market. But experts warn they carry inherent risks for investors.