A Hartford, Conn.–based team partnered with RIA support platform Integrated Advisors Network to go independent and expand client access to alternative investments.

Holly Framsted, who previously served as head of U.S. product segments in BlackRock’s ETF and index investments group, will join Capital Group in March.

The new fund from Ark will primarily track U.S. and global companies engaged in space exploration and innovation.

The pace of tax-free bond sales could drop this year to a more than two-decade low.

Many quants are hoping now that as people get vaccinated and economies recover, factors will move to their own beat again and trade on the fundamental rules discovered by academics decades ago.

This week in fund news: Cannabis ETFs become more attractive as legalization possibilities expand, a Democratic Party trifecta could be great for markets and some fundsters pull their political dollars in the wake of the violence at the U.S. Capitol.