The Daily Brief

More bitcoin bashing, how utility costs affect retirement and a crypto miner takes a nice, warm bath.

The ranks of women billionaires are growing faster than men, Focus adds a team of former Merrill advisors and Securian Financial launches its first national ad campaign.

A new record for a bottle of whisky sold at auction, Advizr launches its Workplace product and Janney adds at $2 billion team from Nashville.

Vanguard’s hybrid robo should scare advisors, Kestra adds a Wells Fargo team and Yodlee adds an asset transfer product to its onboarding.

The SEC created a sham ICO website, Americans are lacking financial plans and John Kennedy co-sponsors Elizabeth Warren’s investor compensation bill.

Financial advisors are frustrated with annuities’ cookie-cutter approach, E-Trade’s custody platform TCA adds money managers to its exchange and MyVest “modularizes” its Portfolio Management Suite.

Stifel buys Business Bancshares, John Hyland joins Bitwise and Yield Street is offering marine finance investments.

Kwame Brown is suing his Merrill Lynch advisor, Switzerland is still tops in international assets and MMI adds new curriculum to its Continuous Learning Center.

LearnVest advisors being offered jobs at Northwestern Mutual, retirees are experiencing financial challenges and two Buffalo firms merge.

Trusts and estate lawyers are facing high-class problems, EP Wealth Advisors names a new CEO and 280 CapMarkets launches 280 BestX document support.