Alternative Investments

Companies are likely to pay increasing attention to their behaviors related to ESG factors because the cost of capital impacts competitiveness.

How it could change the DCIO world—again.

Portfolio construction in uncertain markets needs to include non-U.S. stocks, securitized debt, liquid and illiquid alternatives, according to speakers at the Morningstar Investment Conference.

And how these products measure up against Social Security optimization.

The ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF would trade under the ticker ARKB and would track Bitcoin’s price as measured by the S&P Bitcoin Index.

The income fund will be distributed through Ares Wealth Management Solutions, the parent’s retail business, and sold through registered investment advisers and financial advisors in the US. 

Total assets in the Franklin OnChain US Government Money Fund (FOBXX), which was launched last year, have increased to around $270 million.

The $71 million iPath Series B Bloomberg Copper Subindex Total Return ETN (JJC) is the largest of the notes being closed, which hold around $533 million assets in total.

More than a quarter of advisors, including a third of wirehouse advisors, believe cryptocurrencies will collapse on a more spectacular scale in 2023 than the FTX-led plunge in 2022, according to a new survey.

Strategists from BlackRock Investment Institute favor public and private investments as well as tactical holdings of bonds.