What has happened to the U.S. job market? It doesn’t seem to be there anymore, at least not in its pre-pandemic form. I get this same take on the job market from recruiters and my industry colleagues.

Asset managers know there’s more than one way to invest in real estate, and many of them manage multiple funds with different strategies and structures to give investors options. Those choices might include either a Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) or a real estate investment trust (REIT) — tax-advantaged alternative investment products that grew in popularity after the economic crisis of 2007-2009.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the office market is hard not to notice. Many office buildings sat empty for months on end, and now that some employers have adopted hybrid working environments, it begs the question: Where does that leave offices in the near term and beyond?

It is a wee bit ironic that the term “sustainability” has been associated with a liberal political orientation, when the act of “sustaining” something is an essentially conservative one. Sustainability is designed to preserve the status quo or restore a prior state of equilibrium or resource availability.

Venture capital and retirement funds share long-term investment time horizons, making them ideal complements to one another. Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) are long-term investment vehicles, and venture capital aims to earn outsized returns over the long run.

Foreign legal restrictions have often confused multinational taxpayers, particularly in countries like Brazil, whose transfer pricing regulations seemingly depart from the arm’s-length principle by capping royalties and setting ranges for tangible transfers. This has spurred controversy between taxpayers and the Internal Revenue Service regarding the impact of foreign legal restrictions on the arm’s-length amount to be recognized in controlled transactions. On Feb. 9, 2023, the tax court sided with the IRS in 3M Co. vs. Commissioner, upholding requirements in Treas. Reg. Sec. 1.482-1(h)(2) regarding when a taxpayer may consider foreign legal restrictions for determining the arm’s-length amount in a transaction between controlled taxpayers.

Today I’m in the town of Kemmerer, Wyo., to celebrate the latest step in a project that’s been more than 15 years in the making: designing and building a next-generation nuclear power plant. I’m thrilled to be here after all this time because I’m convinced that the facility will be a win for the local economy, America’s energy independence and the fight against climate change.

On March 15, the Federal Reserve announced a new payment service called FedNow. Shortly thereafter, claims began to circulate that FedNow is tantamount to a central bank digital currency, or CBDC. The announcement came roughly a year after President Biden signed an executive order tasking the Federal Reserve with looking into a CBDC for the U.S. financial system.

How do the wealthy invest, and what can the rest of us learn from them? A new paper from Origin Investments interestingly notes that investment strategies favored by the wealthy have changed. Learn more here.

The automotive industry has the largest number of robots working in factories around the world, with its operational stock hitting a new record of about 1 million units. This represents about one-third of the total number of robots installed across all industries.

For generations, the “60/40 rule” of thumb — that an investor’s portfolio should be three-fifths in equities and two-fifths in bonds — has served well enough and lent macro diversification to nest eggs. An investment plan incorporating both growth and income instruments generally provided a reasonably safe passage to building wealth while reducing risk.

Never discount the influence of happenstance. It’s an influence Stephen Biggs became acquainted with after earning his master’s degree in business and finance at San Diego State University in the mid-’90s, after which he started his career as an equity analyst at the Montana Board of Investments. The pension fund’s investments included some KKR funds, which was where Biggs became acquainted with alternative investments. At one conference he attended, Biggs — young and shy at the time — sought out a quiet table. In short order, two men joined Biggs and started peppering him with questions.

Chinese clean energy investments continued to outstrip the United States and Europe’s combined spend in 2022, pushing total solar deployment in Asia's largest economy close to 400 gigawatts (GW). China has already surpassed that milestone in the new year, with the first two months of 2023’s buildout of solar capacity running at a much faster clip than in the same period a year ago. China is keen to improve renewable power generation domestically and continues to look toward Africa to expand development abroad.

The Biden administration proposed aggressive new tailpipe emissions standards that, if enforced, would leave carmakers with no other choice than to produce electric vehicles almost exclusively by 2032.

According to the official rules of Monopoly, the bank can never run out of money. Obviously, that’s not always the case in the real world. We’ve already seen three regional banks fail in the United States so far this year, and we may see more as depositors continue to move cash from smaller institutions to those perceived to be safer. According to the latest data, bank deposits are shrinking at the fastest pace on record, having hit –5 percent year-over-year in April.

Cryptocurrency adoption in the United States increased amid fears of a full-blown banking crisis, a new poll finds. According to Morning Consult, 22 percent of Americans said they owned at least one form of crypto in April, representing an increase of 4 percentage points from January.

While large organizations have been investing heavily in robotics for years, the vast majority of companies with 500 or fewer employees have not had that luxury. Thankfully, that equation is changing. Increased availability of smaller sensors and faster processors has enabled the development of smaller, cheaper, more flexible robots that are easier to instruct and safer to operate than their heavy industrial counterparts. This reality has set the stage for the next wave of adoption: innovative small and midsize enterprises (SMEs).

Financial advisers don’t always have the best reputation, in some cases because they talk down to clients, they put their interests ahead of their clients, and they fail to return phone calls or reply to emails. Clients sometimes become part of the problem by withholding information or panicking during market corrections. One of the keys to a fertile adviser/client relationship according to Nick Stuller, a 35-year veteran of the financial services industry and the founder and CEO of MyPerfectFinancialAdvisor, is to more carefully match clients with suitable advisers.