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Advisor Upside

How Next-Gen Advisors Are Breaking Into the Industry

Early career advisors discuss what they need to succeed and how their generation thinks about finances.

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Real Estate

A Rate Cut May Be The Push The Housing Market Needs

An interest rate cut would mean a lot of things: one undoubtedly good one would be a housing market more welcoming to buyers.

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ETF Upside

Vanguard Adds Long-Overdue Junk Bond ETF at Tricky Time

The company filled a hole in its fixed-income ETF line — but the timing may not be ideal, given relatively low yields in junk bonds relative to Treasurys, one observer said.

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Markets

Trump Says Wall Street Should Ditch Quarterly Earnings: What Would That Mean?

President Trump wants to end mandated quarterly financial reports for publicly traded companies. Odds are his dream comes true.

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ETF Upside

New ETF Shop Snags Former Janus Henderson Exec

Reckoner Capital Management, which added its Leveraged AAA CLO ETF in July, has aspirations of building out a global credit business.

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Big Tech

Apple May Still Be a Hitmaker After All

Apple’s latest generation of iPhones were debuted with modest aplomb last week. Presales show the company has plenty to be confident about.

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Economics

What To Expect After The Fed Cuts Rates

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The Federal Reserve is poised to cut interest rates this week, but whether the era of “higher-for-longer” rates is over is another matter.

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Patent Drop

Glimpse into the future of technology.

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Google Patent Highlights AI and Quantum’s Symbiotic Relationship
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The Time and Place for AI Code Generators
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Into the Future: The Patent Drop Highlight Reel
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Amazon Tries to Help Alexa Get Personal

CIO Upside

Salesforce Patent Could Recycle AI Model Outputs

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Reusing old responses could help save the model energy.

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ETF Upside

How ETF Issuers Are Attracting ‘Kid-in-a-Candy-Store Money’

As new ETFs launch at breakneck speed, expensive products are raking in revenue.

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Economics

Is Work-From-Home Still the New Normal For Corporate America?

The return-to-office orders have taken on new weight amid a softening labor market and broader economic anxiety.

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ETF Upside

Research Affiliates Has a New Feather in Its Cap-Weighted Line

The firm’s founder claims a new ETF using fundamentals beyond market-cap weighting to determine holdings is the next big thing.

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