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  • News
  • April 26, 2024

Leading through innovation – with Tom Ruggie of Destiny Wealth Partners

Uncover the key initiatives behind Destiny Wealth Partners’ success and how it became one of the fastest growing fee-only RIAs.

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  • April 23, 2024

Alts platform CAIS secures another partnership

The leading alternative investments provider is helping Captrust, the $800B wealth juggernaut, provide a better experience for advisors.

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  • April 22, 2024

There’s a gender gap in emerging tech investment

Fintech platform’s poll shows men more likely than women to dive into crypto, blockchain, and alternative assets.

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Shaking up the 60/40 portfolio

The importance of diversification, like your health, only reveals itself in bad times, advisor says.

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Firms and advisors need an alt-friendly tech solution

As alternative investments grow in popularity, firms and advisors will need tech that enables them to provide better service to clients exposed to such assets.

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Advisors reassess their alt stakes after loading up

Use of alternative investments skyrocketed when stocks and bonds tanked in 2022, but advisors are still standing behind those positions as stocks rally.

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  • February 22, 2024

AlTi’s upper-high-net-worth ambitions get $450M boost

The global wealth and alternatives manager is getting strategic investments from Allianz X and Constellation Wealth Capital.

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  • February 7, 2024

KKR sees ‘trillions’ of retail investor dollars moving to alts

'Mass affluent individual investors historically have not had an easy way to access these types of products and strategies,' senior KKR executive says.

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  • January 25, 2024

Advisors not done with alternatives despite bull run

The run-up in stocks raises the question of whether advisors should start reducing their stakes in those illiquid alternatives that once provided them safe harbor.

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  • December 18, 2023

Finra smacks Philly broker with Wells notice

"It's not a good day for Austin Dutton," says one attorney.

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  • February 27, 2020

Gold prices set to soar amid stock volatility

Investors turn to gold for its relative safety in volatile markets. The new coronavirus outbreak is fueling sales

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  • February 18, 2020

BlackRock to co-manage high-yielding alternative income fund

YieldStreet Prism Fund gives individual investors direct access to BlackRock's institutional expertise

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  • January 9, 2020

Wealthy investors steer billions toward new Trump tax break

Over the last month, there was a jump in the assets flowing into funds that employ the opportunity zone tax incentive

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  • September 5, 2019

Time is running out on opportunity zones — but there’s limited choice

2026 marks the end of full tax benefits for investors in Opportunity Zones. Find out more about this investment tool, the history behind it, and key aspects to consider.

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  • April 28, 2018

Alternatives by the numbers

While individual investors' allocations to alternative investments average less than 10%, interest in alts is rising.

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  • March 10, 2017

RIAs take a soft approach to cross-selling

Planners use multiple means to show clients they have more to offer than the basics.

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  • September 8, 2015

Risk parity: The real culprit behind the market’s madness

Stocks have been murdered, and China seems to have been caught red-handed. But some financial luminaries are pointing to a surprising defendant: the risk-parity strategy pioneered by hedge fund manager Ray Dalio. Who's guilty?

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When looking to preserve clients’ capital, consider alternatives

The potential benefits — and pitfalls — of using alternatives to diversify a portfolio focused on capital preservation.

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Long/short equity, event-driven liquid alt funds top stocks in first half

Flows turn mixed but overall universe expected to grow by 5% this year to about $495 billion.

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Which is the easier question: How do you feel about liquid alts or how to regulate them?

It's easy to vilify liquid alts; it's much harder to draft the kind of regulation that allows an investor to make an informed decision about the risk-return profile of their investments.