Financial News Roundup for the Week of Sept. 24, 2017

What We've Been Reading - Week of Sept. 24

Markets & Economy:

• Leveraged loans are back (WSJ)
  
• As China piles on debt, consumers seek a piece of the action (NYT)
  
• Citigroup aims to bring back synthetic CDOs (Bloomberg)
  

Asset/Wealth Management:

• The growing clout of ETF strategists (WSJ)
  
• Big investors want directors to stop sitting on so many boards (WSJ)
  
• Banks lobbying to stem MiFID’s Spread Spark a U.S. client revolt (Bloomberg)
  
• Freud Meets Finance: Why Wealthy Clients Are Using Financial Advisors For Money Therapy (Forbes)
  

Long(er) Reads:

• Congressional aids risk conflicts with stock trades (Politico)
  
• The coming software apocalypse (The Atlantic)
  

Alternatives:

• Infrastructure Investors Swap Debt For Equity (II)
  
• Family Offices to up allocations (PEI*)
  
• The Massive Hedge Fund Betting on AI (Bloomberg)
  
• Why Private Equity May Be on a Highway to the Danger Zone (II)
  
• Hedge funds ain’t dead yet (WSJ)
  

Media Industry and Journalism:

• WilmerHale 'inadvertently' leaks Pepsi client secrets to Wall Street Journal (LegalWeek)