Threat Hit Voyager Digital – Crypto App Went Offline Monday, Resumes Trading Tuesday Morning
Yesterday (12/28) around 1pm ET, the digital currencies app Voyager Digital went offline and has remained unavailable to customers for trades, etc. through Thursday morning.
Who Needs Santa! MacKenzie is Doing Just Fine
Who needs Santa when you have someone like MacKenzie giving away billions (yes billions) of her Amazon fortune? $6 billion this year so far. And, she certainly learned how to distribute efficiently from all her firsthand experience making Amazon the behemoth it is today with ex-hubby Jeff Bezos.
The Experts Weigh in on Trends in Digital Wealth for 2021, Part 1
We ALL love predictions, don't we, especially when we look to what the future might look like for the coming year. And given that 2020 has been a PRETTY "interesting" year, there's no shortage of individuals ready to kiss this year good-bye and get back to the business of "normal", not "new normal", for 2021. We've asked a number of our industry friends to comment. In prior years, it's been like pulling teeth to get these responses back on time. Ahhh, the life of an editor! But THIS year - this year - has been a breeze. So much so, that we have to break this feature apart over 2-3 weeks in order to include all the quotes we received.
Designing First-Class Digital Experiences in a Post-Pandemic World
Back in March, hardly anyone in the wealth management industry had the faintest idea how long most of us would be working remotely. As 2020 draws to a close, with some companies changing their practices to make remote work a more permanent mode of operations, it seems clear that virtual, digitally enabled experiences are here to stay.
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Easy. Going!
That title from a classic rock song from the Clash (Combat Rock album....1981) pretty much says it all during this nationwide epic migration.
MassMutual Gets Into Bitcoin, But Let’s Dig Deeper
MassMutual spent $5M (chump change) to acquire a minority interest in NYDIG AND buy $100M of bitcoin from NYDIG's portfolio
Tokenization Can Make Real Estate Assets Highly Liquid
The age-old advice for real estate investing must evolve. It is true that in real estate the imperative is “location, location, location.” But now we must add to that mantra “liquidity, liquidity, liquidity.” It is time to modernize the real estate industry -- it’s time for tokenization.
21 Financial Resolutions for 2021
It's hard to believe that 2021 is almost upon us - jarring actually - and I am certain that we ALL are hoping for a return to some level of normalcy next year. With that said, he American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) recently joined forces with the National CPA Financial Literacy Foundation to create a list of "21 for '21" financial resolutions, which we found quite clever.
SEC’s FinHub – Stand Alone, or Stand Next To?
The SEC has had the Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology, or FinHub, around for a few years but it was just announced that FinHub will now become a stand alone office
Do You Know Who Left the VOO?
We have a real "who done it" on our hands. Somebody took around $7 billion out of Vanguard's S&P 500 ETF.......symbol VOO.......in just one day last week. That amounted to roughly 4% of the fund's assets and looks like it was done in one large record setting trade. That's a really big deal.