The Motley Fool

MARCH 20, 2025

But as of late February, the highest judicial court in the country was discussing regulations pertaining to the legal status of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets. If those discussions ultimately lead to Bitcoin legalization (and they might), it would be a new catalyst for the coin.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2025

If you sold your position and converted your funds back to dollars, you'd break even. Owning a diversified mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (ETF) might not protect you from currency risk exposure since some of the fund's investments might face currency risk. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Panama, where U.S.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

If your financial planner is an investment advisor, mutual fund company, or transfer agent, you should file a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or your state securities regulator. Finally, it may also be a good idea to contact the professional organization your financial planner is a part of.

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Integrity Financial Planning

MARCH 19, 2023

In a matter of a few short days, Silicon Valley Bank lost its funds and went under. As a result, and due to the fact that, like many large bank accounts, most of SVB’s funds were not covered by the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), other venture capital firms and tech companies panicked, yanking their funds due to the stock loss.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They're typically implemented using age- and risk-tolerance-appropriate investments that focus on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds and are often offered as a portfolio choice from major online brokerage firms. A fiduciary is legally bound to put your financial interest above theirs when making investment decisions.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 26, 2024

Nicknamed the "Bond King," Gross ran Pimco's Total Return Bond Fund for decades, enriching himself (he's worth an estimated $2.5 billion) and investors in that fund. They fly under the radar of many institutional investors because legal constraints prevent most mutual funds and ETFs from investing in these entities.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

While the company has significant legal issues, it's often forgotten that its operational performance has left much to be desired in recent years. 3M (NYSE: MMM) chief financial officer Monish Patolawala's presentation at a Morgan Stanley conference on September 13th left investors unimpressed, and the stock sold off in its aftermath.

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Integrity Financial Planning

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This strategy is when you sell stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and other investments carrying a loss to offset gains from other investments sold. If this might be the case for you, engaging in tax-loss harvesting may help you save on taxes in a sensible, legal way. What is Tax-Loss Harvesting?

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 22, 2024

Wealthy Americans also tend to put their money in investment funds, such as mutual funds. An easy way to invest in the stock market is with an index fund. Funds that track the U.S. They keep plenty of money in their emergency funds You're going to have unexpected expenses from time to time.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

Both are readily available through many major online brokers , and both can be used to invest in stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds, and more. Having said that, if your priority is to save as much as legally possible, the Solo 401(k) could be right for you.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 27, 2024

A broker-dealer firm is in the business of buying and selling securities -- stocks, bonds, mutual funds and certain other investment products -- on behalf of its customers (as broker), for its own account (as dealer) or both. Do you or your firm have a legal or disciplinary history? What are your other qualifications?

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 4, 2024

You decide how much you'd like to defer from each paycheck and these funds are always yours to use as you'd like. You usually choose from a handful of mutual funds , and your employer is in charge of selecting the options. This determines when you're able to keep your employer-matched funds if you leave the job.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

But a fiduciary is someone who is legally obligated to put your interests first. If you're going to have your money managed by Vanguard, chances are they're going to put all your money in Vanguard funds, so there is a little bit of a conflict of interests there. We'll talk about this a little bit more later on.

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The Big Picture

MAY 18, 2023

I’ve traded stocks, options, ETFs, mutual funds, and bonds. Now, Taco Bell argues it should be able to get in on using the popular phrase – with no legal ramifications. Now, Taco Bell argues it should be able to get in on using the popular phrase – with no legal ramifications. It filed a petition with the U.S.

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Fortune Financial

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Some accounts require the funds to be used before the calendar year ends. This plan works much like a Roth 401(k) or Roth IRA by investing your after-tax contributions in mutual funds or similar investments. They allow the beneficiaries to use the funds at any college or university, some non-U.S.

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The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

But once the rules started changing, it became difficult around things like seeding new funds. Within a year, you couldn’t be more than 10% of the fund. RITHOLTZ: So were you — in the early days, it was mutual funds it was SMAs, what were you guys doing? RITHOLTZ: Sure. JOHNSON: For sure. JOHNSON: Exactly.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Meade -- General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer Good morning, everyone. We believe the continued path of central bank normalization will support sustained inflows across bond funds, ETFs, and institutional accounts. Sales, asset, and account expense increased 6% compared to a year ago, driven by higher direct fund expense.

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Sara Grillo

JUNE 24, 2024

Variable universal life (VUL=mutual funds) were/are illustrated using an 8%-12% CD-like ROR eternally. Also, nothing in this podcast or blog can be interpreted as legal or compliance advice. For advise on such matters, contact a legal or compliance advisor. Money market rates crashed to zero (0%) in 2022 due to Covid-19.

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Zajac Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

While an anonymous greenback in the offering plate might not generate the paperwork necessary to realize any tax benefits and starting a private foundation might seem daunting, a Donor-Advised Fund could be a great option for philanthropic investors. What is a Donor-Advised Fund? With a DAF, you can contribute assets to your fund.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2022

But I covered derivatives at first, and then I cover mutual funds. I worked for a (inaudible) called Fund Action and did that for a little while, and then went — I met a guy named Duff Ferguson at AllianceBernstein. BALCHUNAS: … where you had to call pensions and tried to pitch them on hedge funds …. He was the P.R.

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Hellman & Friedman LLC

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The oversubscribed round was led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from other investors ServiceNow Ventures; Zoom Video Communications; funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, D1 Capital Partners and another large US-based West Coast mutual fund manager. This offering values Genesys at a valuation of $21 billion.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Well, it turns out that you can put together a perfectly good investment portfolio with those institutions simply by using exchange-traded funds and keeping your expenses to a minimum. What is legally called the fiduciary standard. About a quarter of them had a very proper, well diversified portfolio of index funds.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 31, 2022

The amount of new money investors added into open-end and exchange-traded funds reached over $70 billion in 2021, nearly a one-third increase over the previous year, according to a study by Morningstar. Green mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (EFTs) also provide a sustainable strategy for potential investments.

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Sara Grillo

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Other additional fees that you can expect to incur, but that will not be paid to us in any part, may include: Trading fees Brokerage commissions Mutual funds and ETF expenses Custodial fees. Also, nothing in this podcast or blog can be interpreted as legal or compliance advice. Sara’s upshot.

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

MARCH 15, 2023

We explore the history of investing, which started with the purchase of individual stocks by investors and then the development of mutual funds, which collectively helped pool risk and provide greater diversification. Here is some information on low cost index funds. Higher Net Fees….Better Better After-Tax Result?

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The Motley Fool

MAY 28, 2024

I feel like that's legally required. What she should do is open a Roth IRA right now and fund it even with a small amount of money. Look for the lowest cost options within the 403(b), maybe an index fund or a few investment categories that are different from what you've chosen in your Roth IRA so that you get some diversification.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 28, 2022

As people said, you know, it’s just out of date, I’m going to get a performance fund. You would have guessed, had you known that a balanced fund, the stock and bond portfolio was going to do a lot better than just the pure stock funds over the next 16 years. The mutual fund business is all about sales and investing.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 24, 2022

But the career paths from there were either kind of the PhD route, or the legal routes. And so there was a lot of need on the active mutual fund friends. And so my coverage list kind of converted over time to focus more on mutual funds, to focus on five to nine plans, college savings. And it was interesting work.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 17, 2024

Bill Barker: I think that the training in the law and legal rating where you have to have support for every fact, you have to have a citation for every argument. Bill Barker: Then I would say that actually working in a legal office, working as a lawyer, certainly introductory, big law firm life is not for everybody. They pay well.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

With nearly half a trillion dollars of assets under management supporting defined benefit and defined contribution plans, PGIM is a market leader, servicing more than half of the world's 300 largest pension funds, including over two-thirds of the largest 100 U.S. pension plans, and is the largest pension fund manager in Japan.

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Fortune Financial

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In other words, it could cost over a quarter of a million dollars of our retirement funds to cover out-of-pocket healthcare expenses. It could cost more than the projected amount if all retirement funds are in a pre-tax account. Technically, you have 60 days from when you receive the funds to deposit them into the new account.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

Gold subscribers reached a record $2 million, which is over 60% year-over-year growth, and now over 8% of funded customers are Gold members. And I'm thinking like custody mutual funds fixed income products, CDs. And we use those savings to help fund specific growth investments for the business.

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Diamond Consultants

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Is your firm aggressive and litigious in pursuing legal remedies for advisors who leave? Does the current book map over in terms of investments (SMA, UMA, mutual funds, alternatives, ETFs, etc.)? firm-specific feeder funds). Your Current Employment Contract. Do you have garden leave or other post-employment restrictions?

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

He also helped run some of their mutual funds and helped put together their first ETF, and he has really quite an astonishing track record. The Quality fund mutual fund that GMO runs that symbol G-Q-E-T-X, it’s just crushed it over the past decade. a year, way over both. Really fascinating guy. No minimum.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

The opportunities to trade derivatives and be involved in the hedge fund space was something that really had not emerged, at least for me in New York until Canyon Partners provided that opportunity. So after a successful run at Canyon, you stand up your own fund, ice Farm Capital, you’re seated by Soros Fund Management.

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Fortune Financial

JUNE 2, 2023

Unlocking the Power of Net Unrealized Appreciation (NUA) Many workers receive company stock as part of their compensation package or can take advantage of a company 401(k) plan, choosing from a menu of mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and company stock for their investments.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 10, 2024

But then he goes on, doesn't that mean that when they rebalance that fund every quarter to reach a goal of an equal weight fund, that would be, Andy, when all positions have an equivalent dollar value? Andy Cross: David, ETFs, mutual funds, they operate by very strict rules on how they allocate their capital.

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