Digital record keeper Vestwell continues to grow as program administrator for state retirement plans. On Tuesday, New Jersey announced that it selected Vestwell to run its Secure Choice Savings Program, a plan designed to help private-sector employees save for retirement. The partnership, which is Vestwell’s seventh state-facilitated retirement program,...
An RIA firm has agreed to pay at least $18 million after being charged by the SEC for failing to disclose multiple financial conflicts of interest. The regulator said that AssetMark Inc. did not disclose that it helped set the fee that its affiliate custodian received for operating a cash...
Two Indianapolis-based RIA firms have combined to create a new brand with more than $750 million in assets under management. Wellington Group and TrustWealth Strategies completed their official merger earlier this month and will now operate under a new brand, Wellington Wealth Strategies, with a rollout already underway. The legacy firms...
Americans outside the wealthiest 20% of the country have run out of extra savings and now have less cash on hand than they did when the pandemic began, according to the latest Federal Reserve study of household finances. For the bottom 80% of households by income, bank deposits and other...
BlackRock Inc. said insurance executives overseeing $29 trillion plan to pour more money into private debt and credit strategies while cutting back on private equity and real estate. Of 378 senior insurance executives surveyed by BlackRock, 89% said they plan to invest more in private markets during the next...
UBS Group on Wednesday will seek to convince France’s top court to overturn a reputation-damaging conviction and €1.8 billion ($1.9 billion) penalty for helping wealthy French clients stash away undeclared funds in Swiss accounts. The hearing comes nearly two years after the Paris court of appeals more than halved UBS’s...
Considering remote working from overseas? Join the growing segment of untethered persons: In the US alone, 17.3 million Americans, 11% of the workforce, now identify as digital nomads—traditional jobholders and independent workers — an increase of 2% from 2022, according to the August 2023 report from U.S. workforce management company MBO Partners. Another...
Morgan Stanley’s Guy Metcalfe, who helped build out the bank’s real estate banking business, will retire after 33 years at the firm. Metcalfe, 56, had been chairman of the unit and was involved in transactions totaling more than $850 billion, according to an internal memo disclosing his departure. His presence...
Two years after selling $11.4 million worth of wine from his cellar, the Taiwanese billionaire Pierre Chen is set to sell an even bigger tranche starting this fall. Some 25,000 bottles, worth an estimated $50 million, will go to auction at Sotheby’s in five dedicated auctions over the next 12 months....
In a significant ruling, Judge Arthur Engoron determined Tuesday that Donald Trump and his real estate company had deceived financial institutions, insurers and other entities by drastically inflating asset values and misrepresenting his net worth in official documents meant for deal-making and obtaining financing. The ruling emerged from a civil...