Despite these successes, many finance executives struggle to quantify the actual return on AI, as the required spending on development, data clean-up, and rigorous testing is immense and mostly paid upfront.

Nashville’s airport authority plans to sell $1.3 billion of debt in January to meet unprecedented growth — an offering that also bodes well for the broader market to see large deals next year.

Stocks in the US seem unstoppable but investors shouldn’t be complacent because there are a number of markers suggesting the rally is more fragile than it seems.

As a debt-fueled AI investment boom takes off, especially in cloud and data centers, many are worried that a tech bubble is forming in the global economy.

US efforts to develop artificial intelligence systems and the nuclear-energy infrastructure needed to power them are comparable to the World War II initiative to build the first atomic bomb, according to Fermi Inc., a power-plant developer planning a massive data-center campus in Texas.

Investors are increasingly viewing bonds from large corporations like Microsoft and Siemens as safer than the sovereign debt of their home governments, a conclusion driven by a sharp contrast in fiscal management.

Publishing in the right places helps you showcase your expertise, demonstrate your authority, and differentiate yourself from other advisors. Here are a few of our best tips for getting published and growing your visibility in front of the right audiences.

Part of growing into a lead advisor role is learning how to coach and develop team members. It involves showing respect and gaining support through influence. Moving from peer to leader is not an easy transition for most people to make.

Audio deepfakes—convincing, AI-generated voices created from minimal sound bites—are emerging as a significant threat to the wealth management industry by allowing criminals to impersonate clients and authorize fraudulent high-value transactions.

Company executives are sounding remarkably upbeat about the economy this earnings season, even as trade tensions linger and stock valuations look stretched.

For decades, these institutional allocators took roughly the same approach to managing the vast piles of cash under their control: They diversified by divvying up the money across asset classes — for example 40% in stocks, 40% bonds and 20% alternatives — then stuck with it by rebalancing now and again when things got out of whack.

Costing tens of thousands of dollars each, Nvidia Corp.’s pioneering AI chips make up a hefty chunk of the $400 billion that Big Tech plans to invest this year — a bill expected to hit $3 trillion by 2029.

First, it would mean lower monthly payments, unless interest rates rise a lot. Yes, buyers who stay in their home for 50 years and pay off their mortgage over that time will pay much more in interest than they would have with a 30-year mortgage.

he dollar is regaining its crown as one of the world’s most appealing assets, defying talk of a “Sell America” trade that had raised troubling questions about the outlook for the global reserve currency.

In anticipation, Nasdaq is looking to add not only in the exchange-traded product group in the coming weeks, but also in the legal and compliance side, according to Giang Bui, head of US equities and exchange-traded products. The exchange hired Kristian D’Agostino as senior director of ETFs last week.

The thesis is simple. Apple will benefit as it taps other companies’ models to deliver AI features to its millions of customers while avoiding much of the heavy spending required to develop its own capabilities, which is what many of its megacap peers are doing.

SoftBank Group Corp. sold its entire stake in Nvidia Corp. for $5.83 billion to help bankroll AI investments, even as investors question the amount of capital pouring into a technology with uncertain returns.

Getting rid of property taxes is a terrible idea. They are among the most economically efficient of taxes, meaning they don’t weigh on economic growth in the way that other taxes can.

Morgan Stanley launched a dedicated research product covering private companies, joining rivals including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. as investor interest in unlisted startups grows.

As an advisor, I also have come across cases of “financial secrecy” in which one partner hasn’t been forthcoming about their financial history. Financial infidelity can severely damage or even diminish relationships and current family dynamics. Today we'll discuss some red flags.

Estate planning earns wallet share without asking for it, strengthens retention by design, and, when done well, meets families where they actually feel value: In the outcomes they see each year and the clarity they feel about the future. That next phase is here, and it belongs to more than just the ultra-wealthy.

Breaking away from a wirehouse or existing firm is a bold move. It signals a desire for greater autonomy, deeper client relationships and a more personalized approach to growth. To thrive, breakaway advisors need clarity, strategy and the right tools that align with their unique vision.

Inviting two new partners, Paul and Ben, into the firm felt less like completing a transaction and more like entering a marriage that created a blended family. For me, it marked the end of forty years of independence and the beginning of a shared future.

Ignoring individual stocks may reduce risk, but it may also reduce engagement, which could lead to reckless decisions. A wise investor can own both index funds and individual stocks, just in the right proportions and for adequate holding periods.

The US government is still days away from reopening as the Senate winds its way through potentially time-consuming procedures and House members travel back to Washington to vote for the first time since Sept. 19.

In his new book, “Peak Human,” Johan Norberg, encourages us to learn about past golden ages and what made them golden. By understanding these culturally and economically special times in human history, and their rise and decline, we can shape our own future in better ways.

If owning a home is still the American dream, then it is increasingly out of reach for many young Americans. The average age of a first-time homebuyer is now 40, up from 33 just a few years ago and 29 in 1981.

Anduril Industries Inc. founder Palmer Luckey, Lockheed Martin Corp., Palantir Technology Inc.’s Shyam Sankar and other investors are putting $130 million into Valar Atomics, a nuclear startup that’s aiming to build thousands of advanced nuclear fission reactors within a decade.

Adam Giddens used to mainly rely on screening services and social-media buzz when looking for stocks to buy. Lately, though, he’s turned his attention to a different kind of influencer: Donald Trump.

Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Albert Bourla had long searched for an obesity drug to make up for dwindling sales of the pharma company’s aging blockbusters. Late Friday, after a dramatic bidding war, he learned he’d finally claimed his prize.

To better understand how the AI industry is funding itself and the potential risks involved, we believe it is helpful to draw on historical context from the dot-com bubble, when similar deals were common amid a thriving technology sector.

A sad chapter in Boeing Co.’s history closed on Thursday when a federal judge approved a non-prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice that drops criminal charges against the company for failures of its aircraft design and manufacturing process that led to two deadly crashes and an inflight accident that by miracle didn’t kill anyone.

In October 1996, at the last party conference before the election that would make him UK prime minister, Tony Blair tried to define the essence of New Labour. He started off by contrasting his party with the dying Conservative government, before summarizing his three priorities for power.

This lack of transparency around private assets has helped the industry grow and innovate; it has also created a rapidly expanding multi-trillion-dollar black box that could pose systemic risks.

Everyone is looking for the next big AI bet. They’re searching for energy-rich places that can run data centers cheaply, for bottlenecks in the semiconductor supply chain that will earn massive profits, or for companies that might own the next breakout algorithm.

For investors, a concentrated portfolio of equity-market winners tends to work just fine — until it doesn’t. At the moment, the S&P 500 is a case in point: Its earnings remain both spectacular and spectacularly concentrated around the artificial intelligence story.

Investors’ certainty that the Federal Reserve would follow its recent interest-rate cut with another in December has evaporated.

The volume of activity on Polymarket, one of the most popular prediction markets, has been significantly inflated by so-called wash trading in which users rapidly buy and sell the same contracts, according to a new study by Columbia University researchers.

Financial markets are obsessed with AI, and the broader public is aware of its looming impact on jobs and wages. Yet for the Federal Reserve, the concern has barely registered.

Something remarkable happened the other day: I tried an AI device I didn’t instinctively loathe. It was a smart ring, created by two former Meta Platforms Inc. employees, that finally met some of the key criteria I think about when it comes to wearable tech and artificial intelligence, an intersection already fraught with failure and no shortage of justifiable anger.

The US stock market has roared past every caution sign on its way to a dizzying 36% surge since the April lows. It’s now staring down one favored by investing legend Warren Buffett.

Global bond sales have soared to a record this year as borrowers take advantage of easy market conditions to fund everything from the boom in artificial intelligence projects to a revival in acquisitions.

AstraZeneca Plc’s profit rose more than analysts anticipated last quarter, buoyed by demand for its blockbuster cancer and diabetes drugs.

Innovation and influence are very distinct phenomena. Bob Dylan, for instance, didn’t invent folk music: He borrowed extensively from Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and others in the folk revival movement of the fifties and sixties, yet he became far more influential than any of them.

The rebirth of private equity dealmaking has been supposedly just around the corner for well over a year. But even as investment bankers cheer a rush of mergers & acquisitions and the reopening of the market for initial public offerings, many financial sponsors are still struggling to catch the same wave.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell agrees that there’s probably something to the claims of a K-shaped economy. But at last week’s press conference, he failed to note how the Fed has helped to create it — and the implications it has for monetary policy.

M&A is more like a math equation. Your firm plus the desired one should equal what you would like to see occur. There are many other desired outcomes of these deals. For that reason, evaluating each deal with the exact same metrics is preposterous and unhelpful.

AUM-based compensation was a necessary evolution. But it isn’t the endpoint. If our profession is serious about being a profession, not an asset-gathering enterprise, we must continue to evolve. That means taking a hard look at how we get paid.

Remember that people have different communication and learning styles. What works for one person who “gets it” doesn’t work for another. If a message is important, make sure to use several modes of communication — written, verbal and interactive — wherever possible.

There can be only one Highlander, but Palantir’s Alex Karp shows there can be multiple highly paid, outspoken chief executive officers of richly valued tech companies with cult followings and unsettling stores of political power. That still doesn’t guarantee it’s a durable model for success.