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Week’s Best: Insurance Costs, Like Sea Levels, Are Rising

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Citi Taps BlackRock to Invest $80 Billion of Client Assets

Citigroup is streamlining its wealth management business as BlackRock seeks to expand its private asset investments.

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Forget Big Tech. Consider These Under-the-Radar Picks From Money Pros.

Investors continue to pile into AI and big tech, but investment pros spy opportunities in emerging markets, gold, small-caps and fixed income.

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7 Facts About Private Markets Investors Should Know

Research by BlackRock’s Preqin sheds light on the opaque world of private markets.

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Hedge Funds’ New Secret Weapon

New companies are collecting any kind of business and consumer economic activity they can get their hands on and selling it to investors.

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Half of Retirement Plan Participants Would Invest in Private Assets, Survey Finds

The study should be welcome news to asset managers with funds that invest in private assets. They are on a path to win access to the nation’s 401(k)s.

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Newbie Investors Are Taking More Risks Than Experienced Ones, Survey Finds

A new survey of self-directed investors by Fidelity reveals stark contrasts in priorities and investment behavior between novice investors and their more experienced counterparts.

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Week’s Best: Is Medicaid Worth Going Broke for?

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How Worrisome Are Recent Economic Reports? Money Pros Weigh In.

Investment advisors grapple with a bevy of (somewhat) bad news on the economy.

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Investors Overwhelmingly Believe U.S. Stocks Are Overpriced, Survey Finds

Bank of America’s latest global fund manager poll also found that a net 37% of investors were overweight emerging market stocks in August, the highest level since February 2023.

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Barron’s Hall of Fame Advisor Jennifer Marcontell: Investing Strategies for Today’s Market

Ameriprise financial advisor Jennifer Marcontell weighs in on the market and her successful career.

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Week’s Best: Gold Poised for More Gains

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Alts in 401(k)s? Why Advisors Have Mixed Feelings

401(k) participants could soon have access to everything from private equity to crypto.

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Bonds Aren’t as ‘Safe’ as They Once Were. It’s Time to Rethink Fixed-Income Strategies.

In this environment, relying heavily on long-duration bonds may no longer provide the risk-adjusted benefits investors have historically expected.

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Selling Stocks in a Market Downturn Is a Big Mistake. 5 Strategies to ‘Panic Prudently.’

Financial advisor Jonathan I. Shenkman shares the tips he offers clients to help them feel a sense of control over their portfolios without making mistakes they’ll regret later.

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Week’s Best: Margin Debt Hits Record in June

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BNY Wealth’s Sinead Colton Grant: Why Tech Remains ‘a Great Place to Be’

The chief investment officer of BNY Wealth explains why she’s bullish on tech, financials, and utilities.

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Why Gold Is Poised for More Gains

Gold could retest its all-time high of $3,500 and perhaps reach $4,000, particularly if investors shed the risk-on approach they have favored in recent months.

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Annuity Sales Set Another Record. $100 Billion a Quarter Is the ‘New Normal.’

The annuity market is still going strong, although trade group Limra predicts some softening later this year.

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BlackRock Is Becoming an Infrastructure Behemoth. It’s Launching Its First Active Infrastructure ETF.

The iShares Infrastructure Active ETF (BILT) is a new addition to BlackRock’s $183 billion infrastructure investing business.

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Should You Play the New Meme Stocks? What 4 Money Pros Think.

Meme stocks’ run has spurred dreams of quick riches. Here’s the advice the professionals are offering individual investors.

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Stock-Picking Is Fun. But the Odds of Winning Are Dismal.

Academic research shows that only a tiny fraction of stocks beat the returns of a broad index over time.

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Week’s Best: Why Isn’t Robinhood in the S&P 500?

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DOGE Cut Federal Contracts. That Created an Opportunity for These Private Credit Investors.

San Francisco-based Legalist started out in so-called litigation finance, but now has a growing business lending to government contractors in need of cash.

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Here Come Women Investors. Gen Z Is Leading the Way.

Investing used to be a mostly male domain. Young women are helping to change that.

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