[Professional investors are awash in Exchange-Traded Funds, with over 5,000 U.S. listed ETFs and more than 14,000 listed globally. This momentum is not a temporary surge, but rather a clear reflection of a structural shift in investment product creation and adoption. ETF launches continue to accelerate, driven by investor demand for transparency, tax efficiency, low […]

[Maximizing after-tax returns by combining superior stock selection with rigorous and active tax management, once only available to UHNW investors,  has become an integrated investment option with growing accessibility to the mass investment market. These tax-managed strategies – not only using loss harvesting – can deliver a customized investment solution with a focus on total […]

[A novel way to think about portfolio risk is providing a provocative challenge to conventional portfolio management wisdom. It acknowledges that there exists a pricing disconnect between what a company can actually do and what the market believes – and this disconnect is driven by human behavior like overconfidence, herding, storytelling, or fear of missing […]

[Asset managers and wealth management firms have a lot of data, but much of it is inconsistent, unstructured, or duplicated. It has been contended that the majority of these data issues are actually symptoms of a lack of proper governance from the very beginning of the data lifecycle and are the root of many technology challenges. Governance […]

[The recent T3 WealthTech Conference in New Orleans, organized by Joel Bruckenstein, was an important event bringing together and creating a financial industry ecosystem of fintech leaders, advisors, social media gurus, and industry executives. While there has been very good reporting on the speakers and key themes discussed, we asked Institute Founding member Kristian Borghesan, CMO of FutureVault  […]

[Asset and wealth managers are operating in one of the most demanding environments the financial industry has faced in decades. Margin pressure, scale imperatives, fee compression, AI-driven disruption, talent shifts, and rising client expectations are all converging at the same time.  Yet despite increasing complexity, distribution/sales teams are still often supported by fragmented training programs, disconnected tools, […]

[The recent merger and reorganization of two microcap funds provide an interesting window into the mechanics of a unique portfolio management process and a deeper understanding of the microcap market. While the two funds seem like a natural fit based on a decades-long history of both managers employing a similar value-based approach to investing in […]

[“Investing in the future” is the holy grail of growth investing for some investment managers. By accurately researching the broader economic and social trends driving the innovations and disruptions that will change the future, they can then focus on identifying which companies win or lose as a result. To find these differentiated growth investment managers, […]

[Cryptocurrency’s downward spiral in the fourth quarter of 2025 reinforced a visceral understanding of the asset’s volatility and the difficulty of determining the rationale for the continued sell-off. Articles during this period were prevalent with head-scratching and grappling with the market dynamics behind the price collapse. All the while, retail and professional investors were being burned in […]