Ken Griffin: How Citadel Built a New Model for Modern Market Making
Ken Griffin’s important contribution to market making was not simply building a large trading firm; it was treating liquidity provision as a technology, data and risk-management problem that could be industrialized at enormous scale. That approach helped transform market making from a largely relationship-driven financial activity into a highly automated business built around quantitative research, […]
Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts: How Couples Can Balance Estate Tax Planning and Lifetime Access
A married couple can transfer wealth during life and still preserve a degree of financial flexibility for the family. That combination is one reason Spousal Lifetime Access Trusts, commonly called SLATs, remain an important estate-planning strategy. For 2026, the federal estate-tax basic exclusion amount is $15 million per person. That means many families will not […]
