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By Craig Manning July 2026 In 2025, private equity deals in the United States totaled a whopping $1.2 trillion in value, according to the financial data platform PitchBook. It was the second biggest year on record for private equity, trailing behind only the post-pandemic boom of 2021. The rise in private equity activity nationwide, combined with Traverse City’s growth as a business hub and entrepreneurial ecosystem, means one thing: Private equity firms are eyeing the northern Michigan market like never before – and acquiring businesses here in virtually every industry sector. Is this new type of attention good news or…

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Alternative investments – including private equity, private credit and hedge funds – sit outside the traditional listed universe. Their appeal lies in their ability to behave differently across market cycles, offering return streams that are less correlated with equities and bonds. This diversification can help smooth portfolio performance over time, while also providing access to sectors, strategies and opportunities not available in public markets. Yet for many investors, accessing these opportunities has historically been difficult. Minimum investment thresholds are often high, requiring substantial capital to build a diversified allocation across managers and strategies. At the same time, many alternative investments…

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TradingKey – On June 30, 2026, Eastern Time, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group (CME) announced that it will launch single stock futures on July 27, with the first batch of contracts covering more than 50 US individual stocks in the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and Russell 1000 indices, including Nvidia ( NVDA ), SpaceX ( SPCX ), Micron ( MU ), Apple ( AAPL ), Alphabet ( GOOGL ), Meta ( META ), Tesla ( TSLA ), and other companies.CME stated that the aforementioned products will officially launch upon regulatory approval, with the first batch including 55 standard contracts and…

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As of June 30, 2026, the precious metals market exhibited notable internal divergence and choppy trading. Spot gold was trading near $4,006.70 per ounce heading into the North American cash-market close, down 0.22% on the session. Despite attempting to recover the $4,064.10 high during intraday trading, gold ultimately remained capped by a strong U.S. dollar and climbing bond yields. Spot silver, by contrast, showed greater resilience, closing at $58.470 per ounce, up 0.50%, with an intraday trading range of $56.53 to $60.55. The core logic behind this divergence lies in the shift in macro pricing power. Market focus has pivoted…

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As SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic move toward US index inclusion, Australian portfolios face a mounting structural challenge. Accelerating methodology changes are creating index concentration risk that advisers and allocators can no longer afford to ignore. The mechanics of passive investing have always carried a latent structural risk. As indices evolve, the portfolios benchmarked to them evolve with them. This occurs regardless of whether that evolution serves the underlying investor’s objectives. The index concentration risk is now crystallising. Its implications for Australian institutional and retail investors are significant. The recent listing of SpaceX and the anticipated public offerings of OpenAI and…

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Digital technology is being used to maintain the integrity of the supply chain in the spirits industry – without a single ape cartoon in sight. Web3 could prompt innovation in the industry beyond the initial buzz of NFTs *This feature was originally published in the December 2025 issue of The Spirits Business magazine. In 2021, rarely a day went by without a news story about cryptocurrency or non-fungible tokens (NFTs). And while crypto bros may not want to admit it – heaven forbid their cartoon ape loses all value – interest has certainly cooled since then. While the spirits industry isn’t always…

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South Korea’s $1.3 trillion public fund giants on hunt for new CIOs South Korea’s major pension, sovereign wealth and mutual aid funds, which together manage about 2,000 trillion won ($1.3 trillion), are searching for new investment chiefs, setting up a leadership reset at some of the country’s most influential institutional investors.The incoming Source link

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