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Vanguard Group is a major asset manager known for low-cost index funds and ETFs, managing trillions in retirement and investment assets.
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France's five-year default swaps rose to 81 basis points on Friday as its 10-year yield hit 4.989%, the highest since 2002. Macquarie's Thierry Wizman calls outright default unlikely but puts the odds of a budget-straining National Rally presidency near 50%.
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Shareholders approved about 80% of 2026 Texas reincorporation proposals, Pay Governance found, though ISS and Glass Lewis opposed nearly all of them. Support varied by company, so a board weighing the move needs a case built on its own ownership and pay record.
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More than 80% of 401(k)s default into mostly cap-weighted target-date funds that buy more of the Magnificent Seven, about 30% of the S&P 500, as they grow. At Amazon, a paper gain on Anthropic supplied almost $17 billion of nearly $30 billion in first-quarter net income.
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Pay Governance found just 19% of S&P 500 pay plans opposed by both ISS and Glass Lewis failed in 2026, down from 50% in 2022. The weight now sits with the five largest asset managers, whose own voting frameworks backed pay 95.6% of the time.
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The largest acquisition in Vanguard's history is a distribution deal with a second target: the net interest income rival custodians earn on client cash.
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Claude for Financial Advisors integrates 11 wealth and asset management platforms, with Schwab Advisor Services the only custodian among them. Advisors who adopt it pay Anthropic for licenses, and Schwab's connectors arrive in the fourth quarter.
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Entrepreneur's September 2026 profile has the Main Street Millionaire author warning that a buyer who copies the wrong operator will build a disaster. Her case for buying laundromats is unchanged.
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David Booth told The Daily Upside that neither mutual funds nor ETFs are inherently superior, and the work that made his $1.1 trillion firm a top active ETF manager was a regulatory petition plus a run of fund conversions.
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Interactive Brokers is selling advisors published pricing, no custody fees and no ticket charges, while declining to say how much advisory money it actually holds, which leaves the wedge visible and its results unmeasurable.
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TradePMR will not quote from a rate card, and it reopens each negotiated rate once a year, because the line Robinhood is underwriting is net deposits from the advisor channel rather than custody fees. The referral volume that would settle it is undisclosed.
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Terms are undisclosed and the close is still conditional, so the only firm figure is the advisor count, 6,500, set against a reported price above $4bn. Jason Wenk says a cash-management agent follows within a year.
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Fidelity takes 15% of an ETF's revenue for shelf space and Schwab is bringing platform fees back, while Altruist says it takes nothing from asset managers. Vanguard now owns Altruist, which turns that zero into a pricing weapon.
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Digital Managed Solutions is a hybrid robo built backwards, starting from branch offices instead of an app. The test is whether small-town distribution is an asset or overhead.
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The bank's $587 million, 708,000-square-foot hub is due by 2031 and fully staffed by 2035, with at least a quarter of moved or new roles reserved for Dallas residents.
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Nvidia's 7.55% weighting in Vanguard's S&P 500 fund has passed Apple's 7.05%. Two names now carry 14.6% of the portfolio most American retirement money holds by default.
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Treasury's $25 billion long bond sale drew the highest yield since 2001, a day after the priciest 10-year auction since 2007. Demand showed up, but only at a price.
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