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Sean Allocca

Sean was Deputy Managing Editor at InvestmentNews from 2020 to 2022, before moving on to become Editor in Chief at ETF.com. He Tweets at: @theseanscoop

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AdvisorEngine updates, rebrands Junxure CRM platform

The announcement is the culmination of a multiyear initiative to modernize Junxure after its acquisition in 2018. The upgraded system will continue to be offered as a stand-alone product, priced per user.

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Facet Wealth lands $100 million in funding

The financial planning fintech will use the latest injection of capital to invest in its technology and product suite to upgrade its client experience.

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Higher payouts mar record year at Goldman Sachs

The investment bank shelled out an additional $4.4 billion in comp last year alone, for a total of more than $17.7 billion for the year, sending the bank to its only quarterly profit decline of 2021.

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Gemini moves into wealth management with Bitria acquisition

The $7.1 billion cryptocurrency exchange has agreed to purchase Bitria, a 5-year-old startup that provides advisers with tools to access and manage holdings of Bitcoin and other tokens.

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Alts open up everything from Harlem Renaissance art to Japanese whisky

The new products not only provide investment opportunities that aren't available on the open market, but can also combine a client’s passions — for things like antique cars or even musical instruments — with their investment portfolios.

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RBC inks portfolio management deal with Addepar

The Addepar platform tracks how investment portfolios perform across asset classes by aggregating data from client portfolios and overall market performance.

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Are Vanguard’s tech issues costing it customers?

A mobile app update removed some functionality and was lampooned on social media sites and in online reviews last year. A website malfunction weeks later couldn’t have come at a worse time.

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Redtail opens up text messaging tech to all

Clients are increasingly connected via mobile devices, and wealth management tech providers are betting advisers will want to reach clients using texts.

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Alts provider CAIS lands $225 million in funding

As the number of publicly traded companies steadily declined over the past decade, investor interest in the private markets has increased markedly.

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Bitcoin sell-off shakes adviser confidence in crypto

For many financial advisers, the slide reinforced the notion that Bitcoin is just too volatile for client portfolios.