These two years have seen significant progress in the development and implementation of many digital services, products, and investment strategies. This is also true for Artificial Intelligence as well as Blockchain. Many applications are being used every day. Companies that have a significant presence in the A.I. sector are well-positioned. Companies with a significant presence in the A.I. sector have demonstrated exceptional growth and strength in the financial markets.

When it comes to investing in transformational technology, exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors shouldn't look further than artificial intelligence (AI). It's certainly something that Japanese holdings company SoftBank is focusing on in the future. "Within 30 years, definitely, things will be flying," said SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. "Things will be running much faster without accident. We will be living much longer, much healthier. The diseases that we could not solve in the past will be cured."

But tech shares were hit the hardest, dragging down the broader market in the final hour of trading. A series of recent developments pointed to more government oversight of the industry. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is planning to testify before Congress about the social-media company's privacy and data-use standards, according to people familiar with the matter. The company's shares fell 4.9% on Tuesday and are down 15% this month over concerns about its handling of user data, on track for its worst monthly decline since 2012. The Federal Trade Commission, in a statement Monday, signaled that it is conducting a broad probe of Facebook, while 37 state attorneys general are also demanding explanations for its practices.

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The largest fund company in the world, BlackRock, has faced a thorny challenge since it acquired the exchange-traded-fund business from Barclays in 2009. These low cost, computer-driven funds have exploded in growth, leaving in the dust the stock pickers who had spurred an earlier expansion for the firm. The rise of passive investing -- exchange-traded funds, index funds and the like -- has revolutionized the investment world, providing Main Street investors with greater opportunities at lower fees while putting pressure on even Wall Street's biggest money managers. Now, after years of deliberations, Laurence D. Fink, a founder and chief executive of BlackRock, has cast his lot with the machines. On Tuesday, BlackRock laid out an ambitious plan to consolidate a large number of actively managed mutual funds with peers that rely more on algorithms and models to pick stocks.

Ric Edelman is one the top financial advisors in the US. His firm, Edelman Financial Services, has 41 offices across the country. And he thinks, all things constant, most financial advisors as we've known them won't be around much longer. At Exponential Finance, Edelman said, "I firmly believe that in the next ten years, half of all the financial advisors in this country will be gone." Edelman spoke on a panel with fellow advisor, Bill Bachrach, chairman and CEO of Bachrach & Associates. Technology, they said, doesn't spell the end of financial advisors, but it does mean they'll need to adapt significantly if they're to survive.