Serial entrepreneur Nathalie Molina Niño had spent the better part of two decades in the tech world when she came to the conclusion that investors are the ones running the show. Having that power to invest and make changes led her in 2016 to start Brava Investments, a firm that...
A recent client survey provides a shocking reminder that the words we use have tremendous power over investors’ financial lives. In 2023, my firm asked, among other things, if our clients were likely to talk to their advisors about “responsible investing” in the next year. Sixty-three percent of women said...
In the face of sharply rising interest rates, headlines about half-empty office buildings and investors pulling money from products, sales of nontraded real estate investment trusts fell hard this year, with the industry raising $9 billion through September after successive years of more than $30 billion in new capital....
For investors stashing record sums in cash, US bond managers overseeing a combined $2.5 trillion have a bit of advice: It’s time to put that money to work. That’s the message from Capital Group, DoubleLine Capital, Pimco and TCW Group. And it comes as many fixed-income managers are still licking their...
There’s hardly been a quiet year for bitcoin since its inception, but 2023 has been a standout: The price of the digital asset has more than doubled, the U.S. is on the cusp of having spot-price bitcoin ETFs, and the founder of a major exchange that melted down in...
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of fraud-ridden cryptocurrency exchange FTX, presented himself as an altruistic, unkempt genius who found himself unwittingly out of his depth. The jury, however, decided that he was a fraudster who knowingly stole $8 billion of customers’ money. Another example that all that glitters in crypto...
At first blush, a record $100 billion flood into actively managed exchange-traded funds this year raises a tantalizing prospect: A revival of stock picking even as only Big Tech names outperform the market. Yet a look under the hood of popular ETFs shows the boom is almost entirely taking...
Stocks advanced and bond yields dropped as fresh signs of an economic slowdown prompted investors to ramp up bets on interest-rate cuts next year. Europe’s Stoxx 600 index rose 0.9%, on track for a 2.7% rally this week, and US futures climbed. Bonds added to Thursday’s gains, with markets now...
A burst of activity in Bitcoin derivatives has evoked memories of the period in late 2021 when the token surged to an all-time high. Variables such as the cost of perpetual futures trades and options open interest point to a revival in speculative gusto for Bitcoin, which has more than...
The 2024 presidential election is less than a year away. But some investors are already concerned about who’s going to win the big boy chair next November. A survey from Janus Henderson released Tuesday shows 49% of investors are very concerned about the presidential election, surpassing the po Learn more about...