This report analyzes the impact of the 2025 U.S. federal government shutdown on registered investment advisor (RIA) and broker-dealer (BD) firm registrations, with a specific focus on how SEC processing delays affected firm launches, client onboarding, and asset transitions. The analysis is based on a 10-year historical comparison using AdvizorPro data. Executive Summary The 2025 government shutdown did not suppress entrepreneurial activity…

  A Conversation with Mintify’s Evan Varsamis Cryptocurrency momentum is expected to accelerate in the first half of 2026, Evan Varsamis, founder and CEO of Mintify, told Advisors Magazine in a recent interview, especially as macro conditions stabilize and tokenized assets become more integrated into traditional portfolios. He also readily dismissed the suggestion by some industry observers that the recent rift between President Trump and…

  After 30 years as a private eye, actor and ex-detective Bo Dietl still handles the most bizarre cases Rao’s Restaurant sits deep in the heart of Harlem – a hangout known for wealthy businessmen, mob bosses, actors and movie directors. Old stomping ground, too, for Richard “Bo” Dietl, the street-smart, urbane private investigator who’s internationally renowned for his investigations. It’s early 1990 and he’s sitting in session with Jordan…

Marcus Lemonis was merely an infant in his native Lebanon as the nation was enduring the ravages of war in 1974, but when a bomb exploded in Nashville, Tennessee on Christmas Day 2020, the TV personality (CNBC’s The Profit and now Streets of Dreams), entrepreneur, advocate and philanthropist sprang into action. What started as a $250,000 reward to anyone who provided information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator, was con…

New Year, New Congress, New Administration: Risk and Opportunities. The word “tariffs” was often mentioned during last year’s race for the White House, and it increasingly appears to be the lynchpin of President Donald Trump’s economic plan. Less than a week before his inauguration as 47th President of the United States, Trump announced plans to create a new agency called the External Revenue Service to collect the tariffs and other…