Since the GameStop stock options frenzy that quietly began early this month and exploded over the past week, some traders have followed by investing in other shorted stocks, with prices surging far past the returns seen in the indexes that include them.
The AI Powered Equity ETF now has more than 37% of its holdings in tech, up 9 percentage points from Nov. 3, and it has halved its industrial exposure to about 3%.
Fink challenged his fellow CEOs to disclose how their companies will operate in a net-zero world and said positioning for the long term means preparing for the realities of climate change.
Total U.S. annuity sales hit $58.7 billion in the last three months of the year, up 2% from the $57.6 billion during the same timeframe in 2019, according to data published by Limra’s Secure Retirement Institute. But sales were down for the full year.
Prices for the digital asset have tumbled 14% this week, marking the steepest decline since March, with Bitcoin near $31,000 Friday. Commentators have cautioned that a sustained drop below $30,000 could presage further losses.
Record outflows from mutual funds have analysts wondering about the future of giants like American Funds, T. Rowe Price and Dimensional Fund Advisors. While mutual funds still hold more than three times the assets of exchange-traded funds, they registered a record $289 billion in outflows last year, according to Morningstar.
The fund manager added Bitcoin futures as an eligible investment for two of its funds, according to SEC filings.
Prices for the largest cryptocurrency dipped as much as 6.8% Wednesday, trading below $35,000, as worries about a market bubble discourage investors from buying in.
Stocks are up almost 12% since Election Day, and some advisers are already looking for a pullback. Biden's post-election rally stands out as the strongest since World War II.
The company, not wanting to be outdone by an identical move in December by its competitor Vanguard, lowered its investment minimum for defined-contribution plans from $100 million to $5 million.
The murky track record behind cryptocurrency has kept some skeptical, but both advisers and investors are showing growing interest in the asset class. The popular digital asset, Bitcoin, recent record-breaking rally has slowed, with prices set to finish this week just below $40,000, according to Bloomberg.
The tight group of marijuana ETFs are up between 28% and 55% in January, anticipating federal approval. For financial advisers and investors, instead of just jumping headlong into cannabis investing, the challenge is traversing a sector that is in limbo.
Overall, the retirement savings products bled $6.7 billion, marking the first such instance of negative net sales since Morningstar began tracking them in 1994, the ratings and research firm reported this week.
A fledgling operation is hoping to turn back the clock by introducing gold bonds that are purchased and repaid with actual gold, a common practice about 90 years ago before FDR’s Gold Reserve Act put the kibosh on all the fun.
Revenue sharing fees ultimately make retirement plans more expensive, and funds that include them are disproportionately favored on plan menus, a recent academic paper found.
There are now five companies offering downside protection through buffered ETFs, and two more firms with products in the filing stages
