Wealthtech firm Smarterly has raised £7 million in a Series A funding round led the family office of Major Oak that provided £5 million.
Wilmington Trust, a leader in institutional trust services and the first financial institution to launch searchable tickers for collective investment trusts (CITs), recently hosted a webinar and launched a new whitepaper to highlight the advantages of CITs for advisors working with sponsors of defined benefit and defined contribution plans – particularly 401(k) plans.
Prominent U.S. fund managers piled into big-name technology stocks and bottom-fished in the beaten-down energy sector as markets reeled from the coronavirus-fueled selloff in the first quarter, regulatory filings released on Friday showed.
Bryan Staff, Managing Partner of Merchant Investment Management (“Merchant”), today announced the launch of Regal Wealth Management (“Regal”), an SEC Registered Investment Advisory firm based in New York City.
When markets slumped in March as the spread of coronavirus gathered pace, wealth managers’ trading volumes soared as ultra rich clients reshuffled their portfolios.
It was this market frenzy that helped Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse – the world’s biggest wealth managers – post bumper first-quarter profits while much of the global banking sector was scrambling to make provisions to withstand the economic fallout from the pandemic.
Montreal-based firm has experience with family offices and hedge funds – and wants to grow its Canada clientele
Stan Druckenmiller said the risk-reward calculation for equities is the worst he’s seen in his career, and that the government stimulus programs won’t be enough to overcome real world economic problems.
Recent news headlines state that the hedge fund industry saw its highest level of redemptions during the 1st quarter of 2020 in over a decade, with $33 billion leaving the industry. A more appropriate headline would have been “Hedge Funds Only Lose 1% of Industry Assets – Learned from 2008 Experience.”
When global equity markets lost around US$16 trillion of their value in a single month this year, the wealthy found themselves no more protected from financial loss than anyone else.
The Chicago-based merchant bank’s new fund has about 150 investors and will focus on buying stakes in family-owned businesses.
