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Matt Ackermann

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Rout in social media stocks crushing ETFs

The falloff in social media stocks is burning investors who piled into one of last year's most popular exchange-traded funds.

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Gross’s top fund suffered $3.1 billion in losses in April

Bill Gross's Pimco Total Return Fund sustained its 12th straight month of withdrawals in April as the world's largest bond fund continues to trail its peers.

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Gross: No asset bubbles given Fed neutral policy rate of 2%

Pacific Investment Management Co.'s Bill Gross said asset markets from stocks to real estate are not overpriced because the Federal Reserve's long-term policy rate will be half of what policymakers are forecasting.

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From Pimco to BlackRock, financial giants protest expansion of too-big-to-fail rules

Global regulators face a backlash from some of the world's largest asset managers including Pacific Investment Management Co., Fidelity Investments, and BlackRock Inc. over plans that could single them out for tougher regulation.

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Ex-Prim president Kaufman sentenced for defrauding NBA union

Carolyn Kaufman, a former president of a Prim Capital Corp. advisory services unit, was sentenced to 3 years' probation, including 6 months under house arrest, for lying to a grand jury investigating a fraud against the National Basketball Players Association.

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Fund firms say too-big-to-fail designation would hurt investors

U.S. fund companies are pushing back against claims that some firms may be too big to fail, saying that singling out a few large money managers and subjecting them to more regulation would hurt competition and ultimately fund investors.

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Deutsche Bank’s Pace set to leave wealth unit

Ben Pace, Deutsche Bank AG's chief investment officer for wealth management in the Americas, is leaving, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

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‘Wolf of Wall Street’s’ Belfort to make $100M this year

Jordan Belfort, whose memoir was turned into a film by Martin Scorsese, expects to earn more from his story than he did as stockbroker, allowing him to repay the victims of his financial fraud. 'Greed is not good. Ambition is good, passion is good,' he says.

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Winklevoss twins seek Nasdaq listing for bitcoin ETF

The duo, who claimed Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for a social-networking website, are seeking to open the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust as the first ETF tracking a virtual asset.