The point of investing in alts is to adjust the risk weighting in a portfolio, so advisers need to identify the risk they're seeking to address, said panelists at the Morningstar Investment Conference.
A California law requiring that publicly held companies have a minimum number of women on their boards was struck down on May 13.
'This space, crypto markets, is a highly speculative asset class,' the SEC chairman said Monday at Finra's annual meeting.
Deborah Ng will lead and accelerate the firm’s ESG and sustainability-related initiatives.
Divesting can take away the option of engaging high-carbon companies to do better.
Ian Delahunty bought a leveraged exchange-traded note and owned it for 199 days rather than the day or two it was meant to be held.
Crypto assets have not provided audits and other standard modes of verification, which disqualifies them as prudent investments.
Clients of Fidelity Institutional will get a discount on the cost of DACFP's Blockchain and Digital Assets certificate program.
Brokerage and fund trade associations caution against limiting the market for retail customers. Consumer group and state regulators say more oversight is needed to protect investors.
The crash in cryptocurrencies could accelerate an investor stampede to safer asset classes.
Fidelity wants to make it easier to allocate 401(k) assets into Bitcoin, while the Department of Labor is warning plan fiduciaries to be extremely careful about using crypto.
Broker-dealers kept selling GWG's life settlement-backed bonds for years despite all the accounting and reporting static coming from the company.
SEC Chairman Gary Gensler warns that the products “can pose risks even to sophisticated investors, and can potentially create systemwide risks by operating in unanticipated ways."
CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam says his agency would be a tough regulator for crypto market.
Participants in their 20s have more than half their retirement plan assets in the funds, a study by ICI and EBRI shows.
SEC Chairman Gary Gensler has been under pressure from Republican lawmakers and industry trade associations to allow more time for feedback on rulemaking.
The strategy blends short-term Treasury bonds with put options on longer-term bonds to ride the trend toward higher rates.
Advisers are hoping the worst is over and trying to keep clients focused on the long term.
There is more going on in the ESG world, as seemingly passive funds have an element of active management that other index funds do not.
Tightening monetary policy to combat runaway inflation and ebbing liquidity are turning investors away from speculative assets across global markets.
