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Australian hedge fund manager Raphael Lamm sees the recent decline in gold as temporary, Bloomberg r PREMIUM Upgrade to read this MT Newswires article and get so much more. A Silver or Gold subscription plan is required to access premium news articles. Upgrade Already have a subscription? Sign in Source link

Executive Summary What’s new: The SDNY U.S. Attorney’s Office has filed a civil forfeiture complaint alleging that approximately $61 million in USD stablecoin funds trace to black-market sales of sanctioned Iranian crude oil and petroleum products laundered through Hong Kong-incorporated firms. Why it matters: The action reflects an accelerating pattern of coordinated DOJ and Treasury enforcement that pairs civil forfeiture’s lower evidentiary burden with expanding sanctions authority over digital assets, materially increasing exposure for non-U.S. exchanges, trading firms and digital asset issuers with even indirect Iran-linked flows. What to do next: Cryptocurrency exchanges and virtual asset service providers should consider…

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru President Bola Tinubu has welcomed the news on Monday from the National Bureau of Statistics, which shows that Gross Domestic Product for the second quarter of 2026 grew by 4.43 per cent, up from 4.23 per cent in the second quarter of 2025. The report also shows growth in agriculture, manufacturing, the oil and gas sector, and the service sector, which now dominates the economy in terms of contribution to aggregate GDP. In nominal terms, the country’s aggregate GDP in the second quarter stood at N119.27 trillion, up by 18.43 per cent from N100.7 trillion recorded at…

New technology might get a lot of attention and high adoption growth, but the investment dollars available for those providers are dwarfed by those that go into asset distribution. SEP 24, 2026 By Ben Henry-Moreland and Michael Kitces Alternative investments have gotten a lot of attention for their growth in recent years, yet they still remain a relatively small part of the overall investment landscape. For example, there is around $20 trillion invested in alternative assets like private equity and debt, hedge funds, and real estate, but that’s a relative drop in the bucket compared to the estimated $318 trillion in combined…

Firm led by Chris Belland, Conor Mackin, and Matt Crady offers leasing, sales, and property management expertise across the Treasure Coast. STUART, Fla., Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — CMB Commercial Real Estate, a full-service commercial real estate firm serving Florida’s Treasure Coast, continues to build momentum since establishing operations this past August, offering a full suite of commercial real estate services including property leasing, sales, and management. The firm is led by industry veterans Chris Belland, Conor Mackin, and Matt Crady, who bring a combined total of more than 30 years of commercial real estate experience to their clients. CMB…

Mutual fund investors did not always put their money into categories that delivered the highest returns. In some categories, investors continued to add money despite negative returns, while others saw outflows even though they delivered positive returns.Data for the 12 months ended August 2026 shows a mixed trend in net inflows across equity, debt and hybrid mutual fund categories, according to the latest Franklin Templeton India Mutual Fund report.Some categories attracted substantial inflows alongside positive returns; several others recorded outflows despite being in the green.Here is a look at the mutual fund categories that saw the highest inflows and outflows…

Institutional & Private Wealth Investors Why low domestic yields are pushing Thai investors toward overseas income How currency hedging costs are reshaping demand for foreign bonds What broader private-market access means for Thai insurers Why Thai investors are looking beyond the largest AI companies How succession planning is shaping Thailand’s private-wealth market Low domestic yields are expanding the range of investments considered by Thai investors. Wealth clients are looking beyond traditional savings products toward global fixed income, equities and private markets, while becoming more comfortable holding foreign currencies. Insurance investors face a different set of constraints, as baht liabilities, hedging…

Stablecoins spent years trying to prove they could move money better than banks, and they have succeeded. Announcements this week from banks, card networks, cryptocurrency exchanges and central banks show why that capability reveals more about stablecoins than it does about the banks themselves. In the span of several days, SoFi Technologies began using its own stablecoin to settle transactions across a card program expected to process more than $25 billion annually, PYMNTS reported. Binance invested $100 million in Circle while signing a five-year agreement to expand USDC. The European Central Bank and the European Union’s national central banks pushed…

Editor’s Note: All opinions, columns and letters reflect the views of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the IDS or its staffers.   Business schools have a symbiotic relationship with private equity. Colleges provide investment firms with access to young, energetic graduates, while connections to those firms raise school prestige and funds. Nobody at the career fair questions it.  Private equity controls roughly a fifth of all corporate equity in the United States. A PE firm raises money from investors: pension funds, university endowments and wealthy individuals, using it to then buy companies outright. Private equity typically purchases private firms…

Electric Avenue tickets are already being advertised for as much as quadruple their original value online after tens of thousands of fans scrambled to secure passes to the sold-out Christchurch festival.The final 15,000 tickets to Australasia’s largest festival, playing Hagley Park on February 26 and 27, were released today.Organisers said the general sale and One NZ after sale allocations had been exhausted almost immediately. Soon after tickets sold out, tickets began appearing on sites such as Facebook Marketplace and Trade Me at significantly inflated prices. 1News spotted several online users claiming to have tickets for sale, including weekend general admission…