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For those of you who haven't gone out to fund-raise to this sector, let me share a little about it with you. You come to an institutional investor with a new strategy - backtested and perhaps even running money currently. They then look at you and ask for a series of greeks on the strategy - deltas, alphas, betas - god knows what else - and then tell you they need you to have a 3 year live track record and at least $200M in AUM before they can continue the discussion.

Feeling sad you missed out on the big money making run up in crypto? Outbid for that digital art NFT? Not invited into that SPAC that just merged with Elon Musk's spaceship? Well, don't despair. There is HUGE money in New Jersey delicatessens.

Property tech “is a good number of years behind the maturity of other spaces. Fintech, for example, has already dramatically re-shaped the world of wealth management, with many traditional wealth management businesses forced to adopt new technologies or fail.”

What do we need to know about the transfer of digital assets to make sure they don't get lost in the ether? According to one study only one in four consumers have someone in their life who knows all their usernames and passwords, so are consumers even prepared to pass on these assets?

After a week in which bitcoin hit $64,000 and a major digital asset exchange hit a $100 billion valuation after going public through a direct listing, cryptocurrency watchers may be wondering what could possibly be next...

Try being Janet Yellen. Yes J-Yell, the new U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, certainly has her hands full. She is attempting to convince investors that printing gobs of money is non-inflationary and also convince global nations joining the U.S. in raising taxes is really good for them.

COINBASE IS GOING PUBLIC. Yes, the largest (by trading volume) cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S. will be offering shares of its stock to the public this week (4/14). But beyond the basic headline, this offering is EVEN BIGGER when you drill down.

We all know the expression "where there's smoke there's fire," right? Well if you follow events at Robinhood (the commission free stock trading platform) you might feel you are following an arsonist. Fires just seem to continually pop up all around them and the smoke keeps billowing up.

Kingswood U.S. is a network of wealth management firms that includes two SEC-registered RIAs and two FINRA-licensed broker-dealers collectively overseeing more than $2.1B in assets

Within the last few months Fidelity Investments, Grayscale Investments LLC, WisdomTree, CBOE/VanEck, NYDIG Asset Management, Valkyrie Digital Assets and SkyBridge Capital have all filed with the SEC to launch a Bitcoin ETF