The firms provide independent advisors another route to transacting and managing alternative investments.

Salameh, former CMO of Hightower, has come out of retirement to lead the marketing organization at CAIS, an alternative investment platform for advisors.

The stunning appetite seen for BITO -- which accumulated more than $1 billion in assets in just two days, among the biggest launches ever -- has futures commission merchants thinking twice.

Size often matters, but not in the way many might think.

It’s clear that regulators aren’t ready to greenlight any exotic crypto ETFs yet.

Gensler first raised concerns about bond transparency in September, saying he’d asked the SEC staff to recommend ways to make the markets for corporate and municipal debt and mortgage backed-securities less opaque.

So-called alternative assets, which also include digital currencies, private debt and private equity, “should continue to outperform into 2022,” JPMorgan strategists wrote.