Ric Edelman

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Ric Edelman co-founded Edelman Financial Engines alongside his wife Jean, transforming it into a leading independent RIA serving over a million clients nationwide with a robust network of U.S. offices. He pioneered fee-only investing through ETFs in the 2000s and launched the iShares Exponential Technologies ETF, which became one of 2015's top performers. Edelman founded the Digital Assets Council of Financial Professionals to train advisors on blockchain and crypto, now influencing thousands worldwide, and penned The Truth About Crypto in 2022 amid surging digital asset interest. From his South Florida base, he forecasts Bitcoin hitting $180,000 in 2026 and $500,000 by 2030, driven by tokenization trends that could eclipse ETFs by decade's end.

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