Billions of dollars of wealth were lost during the recent collapse of the FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange. Why did this happen? In this episode of Buckingham Weekly Perspectives, Chief Investment Officer Jared Kizer shares three lessons learned from the failure of this speculative investment strategy.
Traditional international indexes weighted toward financials, materials, and industrials rarely deliver the growth clients expect from equity allocations. The Pacer Nasdaq International Patent Leaders ETF (PATN) takes a different approach, targeting the 100 non-U.S. companies with the most valuable patent portfolios. By filtering international exposure through intellectual property rather than market capitalization, the fund seeks to match the innovation-driven characteristics of U.S. technology exposure while maintaining geographic diversification.
President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” boosted the SALT deduction limit to $40,000 for 2025, up from the previous $10,000 cap.