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RFG Advisory announced a strategic partnership with iCapital that expands access to alternative investments and structured products through RFG’s ClickONE platform. The integration is designed to provide independent financial advisors with streamlined access to private equity, private credit, hedge funds, and structured investment solutions while reducing operational complexity. The partnership comes as RFG accelerates growth among breakaway wirehouse advisors and independent firms seeking more sophisticated investment capabilities. Through a single sign-on experience within ClickONE, advisors will have unified access to a broader range of investment solutions, allowing them to spend more time serving clients and growing their businesses. The collaboration…

Capturing the full range of price volatility.© Ljupco Smokovski/stock.adobe.com; Photo illustration Encyclopædia Britannica, IncAsk an experienced trader about their biggest challenge in achieving consistent profitability, and they’ll likely talk about volatility—not just the direction of price, but how aggressively and unpredictably it moves. Volatility can shake you out of a position prematurely or cause you to risk too much in a quiet market. That’s where the average true range (ATR) indicator comes in. It doesn’t just measure how much an asset moves—it helps you recognize when volatility is outside its normal range so you can adjust your risk.Developed by technical…

The U.K.’s financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), proposed allowing certain retail investment funds to hold up to 10% of their assets in cryptocurrency exchange-traded notes (ETNs).The financial regulator made the suggestion for UCITS (“Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities”) schemes and some non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS) to invest in crypto ETNs in its latest quarterly consultation paper.UCITS and NURS are similar to mutual funds in the U.S. in that they are regulated, open-ended structures that pool money from retail investors into managed portfolios.”Our proposed 10% limit for UCITS and NURS would also mitigate the risk of significant…

Ajay’s core portfolio includes 3 schemes: a large-cap, flexi-cap, and multi-asset allocation scheme, with a small exposure to a couple of sectoral/thematic schemes. He believed he had built a well-diversified portfolio. However, one day, he compared his schemes through a mutual fund portfolio overlap tool.Index funds provide index returns, diversification, and lower costs. (iStock)He observed that the names of some companies (specifically, top large-cap companies) appeared across multiple schemes in the portfolio. The same company names were there in his large-cap, flexi-cap, and multi-asset allocation schemes, with the percentage holdings varying in each scheme.In an attempt to build a diversified…

Aerial view of the Central Bank of Brazil building in Brasília, taken on August 21, 2025. World Architecture Day is celebrated annually on the first Monday of October. The Central Bank of Brazil headquarters building, designed by architect Hélio Ferreira Pinto, was inaugurated in 1981 and is a landmark of the city’s architecture, with a shape inspired by the cross design found on coins from the Portuguese Empire, known as the “Dobrão”. (Photo by Evaristo Sa / AFP) (Photo by EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesOne of global finance’s most reliable trades has always come with a catch:…

…signals tax rate increases likely needed beyond 2026…backs CBN’s tight monetary stance until disinflation is entrenched and inflation expectations anchored…urges tighter crypto oversight while flagging rising banking risks Nigeria has made significant progress in restoring macroeconomic stability over the past three years, but millions of its citizens continue to face acute hardship, with poverty and food insecurity remaining elevated despite improving external and fiscal buffers, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. In its 2026 Article IV consultation released Tuesday, the Fund said policy reforms—including the removal of fuel subsidies, tighter monetary conditions, exchange rate liberalisation, and efforts to reduce…

(Kitco News) – The gold market continues to struggle to attract new bullish attention and could see renewed selling pressure as the U.S. housing market appears to be stabilizing.Total existing-home sales, including single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums, and co-ops, rose 3.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.17 million in May, compared to a sales rate of 4.02 million in April, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) announced on Tuesday.According to consensus estimates, economists were forecasting a smaller increase of 4.07 million. The report noted that home sales were also up 3.2% for the year.“More Americans are on the move,…

Covering the stock, forex, cryptocurrency, and index markets, providing automated quantitative trading and strategy management services. New York, NY, June 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MoneySimpler announced the launch of its cross-market AI trading bot, providing automated quantitative trading and strategy management services for the equity, forex, cryptocurrency, and index markets. The platform integrates AI analytics, quantitative strategies, and automated execution capabilities, supporting multi-market strategy deployment and real-time monitoring.MoneySimpler AI trading bot aims to help users manage cross-market trading strategies more efficiently, providing a unified platform for market analysis, strategy execution, and trade management, thus comprehensively upgrading the automated trading…

Timing the market is hard. Timing it poorly, at scale, with billions of dollars, is an art form that even the most sophisticated players apparently haven’t mastered. Goldman Sachs prime brokerage data reveals that hedge funds bought global equities at the fastest net pace in four months during the week ending June 4, 2026. Long buying outstripped short selling across nearly every major region, with nine out of eleven global sectors seeing net accumulation. The buying was driven primarily by single stock positions and macro products. Then June 5 happened. The Nasdaq Composite plunged 4.18% in a single session, shedding…

Jun 9, 2026 GFH Bank revealed on June 9 that it had entered into a strategic memorandum of understanding with Octo Management Consultancies. The collaboration is designed to create a logistics and industrial real estate platform worth $300 million, covering the UAE and Saudi Arabia.According to senior GFH representatives at the signing event held during the 2026 Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, the venture aims to leverage robust growth drivers in the GCC’s logistics and industrial sectors. These drivers include the swift rise of e-commerce, localization of supply chains, expansion in manufacturing, and significant infrastructure projects in both nations.Per the…