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Hedge Funds

Hedge Funds Start to Hedge Their AI Bets

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Wall Street’s smart money is starting to take out some short positions on the AI trade, albeit mostly around the industry’s fringes.

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Advisor Upside

Prediction Markets Are Worrying Wealth Managers

While older investors might not be as tuned into prediction markets, some in the wealth industry fear they’re a growing threat to next-generation clients.

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Blockchain

Rough Week Erases Most of Crypto’s 2025 Gains

While digital assets are feeling the chill heading into fall, it’s too early to say it’s the start of a full-blown crypto winter.

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Advisor Upside

Gen Z Prefers to Do It Themselves

Younger investors are also more concerned with transparency and digital capabilities than returns and performance, SIFMA and KPMG found.

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Finance

The ‘Everything App’: How Robinhood Grew From Trading Platform to Financial Ecosystem

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Still in the “early innings of its growth story,” Robinhood has morphed from an app with crowdsourced stock advice to a financial ecosystem.

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Advisor Upside

How Next-Gen Advisors Are Breaking Into the Industry

From left: Nana Kojo Kesseh, Seyi Olabanji, Dre Watson at the 2025 African American Financial Advisors Association conference in Washington DC.

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

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Finance

CFPB Rewrites Open Banking Rule as Banks Feud with Fintechs Over Your Data

The “open banking” rule goes back to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act that introduced sweeping financial reforms after the Great Recession.

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Markets

Fine Print: ETFs Born in Banner Year May Lack Staying Power

Issuers are pumping out funds to meet investor demand, but there’s a growing risk that many of the new ETFs will have short shelf lives.

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Finance

Robinhood, AppLovin Locked Out of S&P 500 Yet Again

Conventional wisdom says being on the S&P 500 is a status symbol that is supposed to come with plenty of benefits.

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Advisor Upside

Robinhood’s Robo Advisor Has a Major Leg Up: 25 Million Users

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SEC filings reveal Robinhood’s plans to offer an affordable robo-advisor that’s on par with the competitors.

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