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The Gates Made of Gold
Entrepreneurs who made their own fortunes accounted for 35 of the 50 people on a recent Wealth-X list of the wealthiest individuals in each U.S. state. That includes self-made entrepreneur Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder...
Oct 15 (Reuters) - The stock market quaked on Wednesday after a week of tremors, but financial advisers and stockbrokers stuck largely to their scripts...
Reducing the Risk
A report released this month by Research Affiliates argues that young workers should begin with a less risky portfolio, noting that their attitudes about investing and risk bearing should not be “poisoned” by a bad early experi...
True Potential’s Managing Director David Harrison believes giving clients some control over their own investments is a smart move. True Potential’s ImpulseSave is a mobile app that lets UK investors “close the gap” on...
Fade to Black
A former stockbroker was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to scamming the Broadway producers of Rebecca: The Musical by lining up fake investors in the production in exchange for a finders' fee. Mark Hotton...
Oct 13 (Reuters) - Janus Capital Group Inc, fresh from hiring bond star Bill Gross, said on Monday it planned to make its first foray into the booming exchange-traded funds space through the acquisition of VelocityShares parent, VS Holdings Inc...
Alt ETF of ALT ETFs
ProShares has partnered with Morningstar to launch an alternative investments ETF that is meant to be a one-stop diversified portfolio of alternative strategies in a single, low-cost ETF wrapper, with the ticker ALTS. The fun...
An assumption many advisors have always taken as fact—that kids will invariably dump their parents’ advisor when they inherit the money—may no longer be as true as it once was.
In a new survey conducted by Morgan Stanley and Campden Research ...
A small corner of the Twitterverse blew up today after an innocent tweet promoting a webinar on the challenges posed by automated investment platforms featuring MarketCounsel’s CEO and President Brian Hamburger, RIABiz founder Brooke...