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🛡️ Tax-advantaged PPLI from Arta

Private market investing through a life insurance wrapper

Arta Finance gives qualified investors access to elite wealth strategies.

One of their most powerful tools is ​Private Placement Life Insurance​ (PPLI) — a structure that wraps private market investments in a tax-advantaged insurance policy.

PPLI has long been used by billionaires to reduce taxes, defer gains, and pass on wealth efficiently.

Now Arta has made it more accessible.

Who's this for?

• High earners in high-tax states

• Investors allocating to alts with tax drag

• Qualified Purchasers (≥$5m in investable assets)

• Families thinking about multi-generational wealth

Learn more

• Read our ​deep dive on PPLI​

• Attend one of their live info sessions in April and May

• Express interest below 👇

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📰 Market Headlines

Stocks tumbled to year-to-date lows as investors braced for Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff announcements.

• The S&P 500 and Dow fell nearly 3% and 2% respectively last week, while the Nasdaq plunged almost 4%

• President Trump dubbed April 2 “liberation day,” pledging to impose sweeping reciprocal tariffs.

President Trump threatened 25–50% tariffs on Russian oil buyers if Moscow rejects a Ukraine peace deal.

Elon Musk’s xAI merged with X in an $80 billion deal, combining 600 million users with AI tools.

TikTok’s sale is expected to be finalized before the April 5th deadline to avoid a US ban.

🧭 Alternative investing news

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 📊 Ideas, trends, and analysis

• Consumer confidence hit a 12-year low as most Americans expected rising unemployment.

• Core inflation rose to 2.8% in February, beating forecasts, while consumer sentiment dropped 12% in March.

🧠 Make yourself heard

Reddit’s stock has plunged 50% in the past 30 days.

Reddit had 101.7m daily active users in Q4, falling short of analyst expectations of 103.2m. The miss was driven by Google algorithm changes.

Analysts underestimated how dependent Reddit is on Google traffic, which likely will decline over time as AI previews get better.

This brings up a good question about Google usage…

😱 Fear and Greed Index

📊 Earnings this week

Market movers

• OpenAI is facing a year-end deadline to restructure as a for-profit company or risk losing half of its $40B SoftBank-led funding.

• The FDA approved Sanofi’s hemophilia drug Qfitlia, a first-in-class bimonthly treatment priced at $642,000 annually.

• The US began revoking licenses allowing foreign firms to export Venezuelan oil, tightening sanctions and pressuring Maduro’s government.

• A federal judge ordered Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen unit to pay $1.64 billion for illegally promoting HIV drugs Prezista and Intelence.

🎤 What you said last time

We have a new poll record! 🎉

(Also, I cannot believe 43 of you have already been to Greenland!) 😮

“Northern Lights and Winter aesthetics. Could be something worth visiting in the future. Sounds like the infrastructure is not there yet.”

📺 What to watch today