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JPMorgan says it has built an artificial intelligence agent capable of outperforming the classic sixty-forty portfolio with lower risk. The bank's system evaluates market and economic data autonomously to make allocation decisions, raising immediate questions about what this means for traditional asset management and the advisors who practice it.
Staying with the AI beat, a new open-source model out of China called GLM five point two is drawing comparisons to the DeepSeek moment from earlier this year. Built by a team backed by Tsinghua University, it's drawing attention in Silicon Valley for its coding strength and large context window, and crucially, it's free, which puts fresh pressure on commercial model providers already competing on price.
And on the wealth management front, ultrawealthy Americans are increasingly pursuing golden visas and second passports in countries like New Zealand as a hedge against the prospect of domestic wealth taxes gaining political traction. Advisors describe these citizenship programs as insurance policies, with investment thresholds running into the millions, and demand from American clients is accelerating noticeably.
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