Alternative Investments

iCapital Network is buying an alts investment fund platform from the bank. Wells Fargo, in turn, is investing in the fintech.

Once the pandemic is over, foreign buyers will likely see attractive investment opportunities in core assets.

Family offices are increasingly turning to private markets as they look for early access to hot startups and seek returns beyond those of publicly traded securities.

Quitting tobacco and fossil fuels should no longer carry a wealth warning.

Is there money to be made in idea factories?

Both stocks and gold are rallying. Market watchers are baffled.

Since late March, some 550 tons of gold -- worth $30 billion at today’s price and roughly equal to global mine output in the period -- have been added to Comex warehouse stockpiles.

Many of the big gains reported by so-called tail risk funds and others are being presented in a misleading way.

Roughly $1.4 billion was yanked out of the FI Large Cap Growth Enhanced ETN, ticker FLGE, a fund that uses leverage to deliver twice the return of the Russell 1000 Growth Total Return Index.

Darting in and out of stock options, dabbling in complicated exchange-traded funds, devouring trading how-to books by the dozen -- all have become tools in the self-directed portfolio playbook.