Investment

For those who can stomach the price swings, the threat of exchange hacks and the byzantine market structure, complex fast-money trades are offering an alternative way to ride the digital mania.

U.S. sector and industry ETFs gained in popularity in 2021 as investors sought targeted exposure to the Energy, Financials, and Materials.

Small-tilted ETFs produced the best risk-adjusted returns.

In this week's fund news, two congressional leaders put target-date funds under scrutiny, Yale's endowment head David Swensen dies, and Alger launches a new semi-transparent active ETF.

With economists expecting the central bank to begin paring asset purchases by the end of this year, Fed officials are sticking to the script that it’s too early to discuss any shift in pandemic policy setting.

Goldman Sachs said in March it was close to offering private wealth clients additional vehicles to bet on crypto prices.

While its meteoric rise mirrors that of Bitcoin, crypto purists fear it’s a distraction from their grand project of deploying blockchain technology to revolutionize modern finance with everything from decentralized currencies to tokenized art.