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Why this announcement didn’t happen in isolation Sun Life’s pledge landed the same day BMO committed to mobilizing up to $70 billion over the next decade for Canadian infrastructure and strategic industries, spanning electricity generation and transmission, pipelines, roads, airports, mining, critical minerals, AI computing, and defence and security. Source link

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Former Blackstone executive Matt Koskinen has taken up his new role as a managing director with Bain Capital’s real estate strategy for Australia and New Zealand with that change leading this week’s look at personnel moves from around Asia Pacific’s real estate industry. Also making the list is a new Vietnam chief executive at CapitaLand Development and the planned departure of HSBC’s group chief financial officer, Pam Kaur. Matt Koskinen has taken up his role as managing director leading Bain Capital‘s real estate strategy in Australia and New Zealand, according to his LinkedIn profile. The hire confirms a move first…

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Futures-options traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange’s NYSE American (AMEX) in New York City, U.S., Sept. 8, 2026. Brendan McDermid | ReutersFor some investors, uncertainty in the bond market and a relentless rise in rates driven by inflation, geopolitical concerns and other factors is enough to throw in the towel, or at least significantly limit their exposure to fixed income.While many advisors and strategists said bonds should remain part of a diversified investment portfolio, they are shifting allocation to lower-duration alternatives such as ultra-short bonds. Others are looking for complementary non-fixed income products for investors…

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Australia’s asset management sector continues to operate against a large pool of Superannuation Capital and changing conditions across property, private Credit and Investment markets. Centuria Capital Group (ASX:CNI), Australian Ethical Investment Limited (ASX:AEF) and MA Financial Group Limited (ASX:MAF) provide exposure to different areas of that market, including real assets, superannuation, managed investments, private credit and Mortgage lending. The Reserve Bank of Australia’s cash rate target stood at 4.35% from 12 August 2026, while the July 2026 monthly CPI indicator was 3.5%. APRA reported total superannuation assets of AUD 4,437.9 billion at March 2026, with net contribution flows of AUD…

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Data from the CRISIL-AMFI Factbook 2026 shows that passive funds received ₹2.07 lakh crore in net inflows in FY26, four times the ₹1.3 lakh crore recorded in FY21. Commodity ETFs, comprising gold and silver, were a major driver of this acceleration, amid elevated global uncertainty and a rally in precious-metal prices.A separate analysis of AMFI data by Zerodha Fund House puts total ETF net inflows at ₹1.81 lakh crore in FY26. Gold ETFs attracted ₹68,868 crore, while silver ETFs drew ₹30,412 crore. Combined, the two commodity categories received ₹99,280 crore, or around 55% of total ETF inflows, compared with ₹77,780…

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President Trump said last night that if Republicans prevail in the midterm elections, the government will send $5,000 payments to each adult citizen. That would come with serious economic risks.The big picture: The federal deficit is already running around $2 trillion a year, bond markets are starting to demand higher rates to finance government borrowing, the economy is at full employment, and inflation has been high for nearly six years.Borrowing an extra trillion dollars or so and sending it to households would risk overheating the economy and making debt, interest rates and inflation worse.It would have echoes of the $1.9…

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Silver expected to stay in mid-$60s May hit $80 if gold reaches $5,000 Fed and industrial demand spur dip In market terms, silver is closely related to gold. Prices for the latter have fallen recently, but experts foresee it rising to $5,000 by year-end, so what does that mean for silver and how much does real-world demand for the precious metal affect prices? Physical silver investment in the Middle East more than tripled to a record 353 tonnes in 2025, according to the Silver Institute. The metal will probably stay in the mid-$60s into next year, analysts say, as ebbing…

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