Finance

Investments

Retirement-Platform Giant Turns On Private Markets Tap

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Retirement plan provider Empower is making private market investments available to participants with help from some Wall Street titans.

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Markets

Markets Eat Their Carats As Gold Touches New Record High

In times of economic uncertainty — such as high inflation or fears of a recession — some investors follow a literal golden rule: buy it.

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Real Estate

Rocket Mortgage Acquires Mr. Cooper to Create an Industry Giant

Combined, Rocket and Mr. Cooper will service a $2.1 trillion loan book across 10 million clients, accounting for one in six US mortgages.

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Advisor Upside

What LPL’s Massive $2.7B Commonwealth Deal Means for Advisors

The deal will fuel industry consolidation and add roughly 2,900 independent advisors managing some $285 billion in assets to LPL’s ranks.

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Private Equity

Private Equity, Sports and Games Sidestep Frozen M&A Pipelines

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Dealmaking among private equity firms and in the sports and video games sectors has gone full steam ahead amid a global M&A freeze.

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Markets

Coca-Cola Sees Glass Half Full Even as Trade War Drains Fizz From Pop Sales

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Coca-Cola was one of several companies whose earnings last week flashed positive signs, despite the hail of uncertainty around tariffs.

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Finance

Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities Has Some Tips for SEC

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Top of the list is a warning over the rise of 24-hour trading, just as the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange pursue it.

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