Wilshire’s Chip Castille says education, technology, careful liquidity management are key.
As alternative investments become increasingly accessible to defined contribution plans, plan sponsors and advisors are facing new questions about suitability, education, and fiduciary responsibility.
Chip Castille, managing director at Wilshire,
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XRP has quickly become one of the most popular tokens in the cryptocurrency realm in recent years.
Bitcoin‘s resurgence during the past year has reignited investor enthusiasm across the cryptocurrency market. The world’s largest digital asset has soared on optimism surrounding spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) approvals,
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Of the debt categories, liquid fund category witnessed the steepest outflow of Rs 66,042 crore and similarly, money market funds saw significant redemptions of Rs 17,900 crore. Further, ultra-short duration funds witnessed outflow of Rs 13,606 crore, while low-duration funds also saw net redemptions of Rs 1,253 crore.
The Nifty 50 reached an intraday high of 25,932 on October 21, 2025, also a one-year high and just a few hundred points short of its lifetime intraday record of 26,277.35 hit on September, 27, 2024.
Even as the benchmark held firm, mutual funds cut exposure to small-cap stocks,
Artificial intelligence is the greatest investment opportunity of our lifetime. The time to invest in groundbreaking AI is now, and this stock is a steal!
AI is eating the world—and the machines behind it are ravenous.
Each ChatGPT query, each model update, each robotic breakthrough consumes massive amounts of energy.
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State Street chief investment strategist Michael Arone (left).
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State Street’s chief investment strategist, Michael Arone, says he’s still bullish on the market heading into 2026—just not comfortably so.
“I’m uncomfortably bullish,” Arone said last Thursday to a crowded room of wealth managers at the Forbes/SHOOK Top Advisor Summit at the Wynn Las Vegas.
This industry disruptor is still just getting started.
One way to earn great returns over the long run is to invest in one of the companies worth more than $1 trillion, such as Nvidia, Meta Platforms, Amazon, Alphabet, and a few others.
Yahoo Finance’s Daniel Howley reports:
Samsung (005930.KS) and Google (GOOG, GOOGL) are taking aim at Meta (META) and the smart glasses market with the release of their new Android XR operating system.
Unprecedented demand for AI chips has propelled Nvidia to become the world’s most valuable company.
Palantir has proven that it can compete with the largest software developers in the market.
Good morning and welcome to First Trade. Warner Bros. Discovery is trying to gin up a bidding war, and stock investors seem to think a sale is a great idea. Maybe they want “Westworld” back on HBO Max.
Rundown
But first, a blast from the past.
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