Finance

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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Big Tech

Apple Card Plays ‘Spin the Bottle’ With Finance Giants

Visa has offered $100 million replace Mastercard as the network of choice for Apple’s credit card, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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Advisor Upside

RIAS are Worth More Than Ever

Sellers are now able to get an even prettier penny when they offload their firms than just a year ago.

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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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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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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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Finance

Fund Shops Are Pouncing on Vanguard’s ETF-Mutual Fund Structure

There are 53 fund shops asking permission from the SEC to tack on classes of mutual fund or ETF shares using a multi-share class structure.

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Consumer

Brazil’s ‘Egg King’ Buys Hillandale Farms

The $1.1 billion acquisition comes just as egg prices are ever so slightly starting to trend down in the US.

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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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Finance

Buffett’s $300B Cash Pile, Fed by Apple, Spurs Investment Guessing Game

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Buffett acolytes are primed to be receptive to new ideas after Berkshire’s more contrarian bets over the last decade have proven prescient.

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