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Investors looking to diversify beyond traditional equity and debt often turn to commodities, with gold and silver being the most popular choices. However, with options like gold and silver ETFs, commodity-themed mutual funds, and multi-asset allocation funds available, the decision can become confusing. Each of these serves a different purpose in a portfolio, and understanding how they work is key to making the right investment choice.While gold and silver ETFs provide direct exposure to precious metals, commodity funds take a different route altogether. Speaking on one such query, Samir Shah, Founder, Investa Financial, explained that commodity funds are often misunderstood…

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In the face of an industry-wide surge in redemption requests from retail investors affecting non-traded private credit business development companies and interval funds, alternative asset management behemoth Blackstone reported increased assets under management from the private wealth channel and sought to separate “fact from fiction” on the overall state of private credit as it reported first-quarter earnings.Overall, Blackstone reported AUM in its private wealth platform has reached $310 billion, up 14% year-over-year. In the first quarter, it raised $10 billion, including $7 billion from its evergreen strategies led by BXPE (a semiliquid strategy focused on private equity launched last year),…

The last time James Kuffner and I spoke was on the eve of world-transforming change. I interviewed TRI-AD (Toyota Research Institute – Advanced Development)’s then-CEO on March 3, 2020, at a robotics and AI event on the U.C. Berkeley campus. We set up extra Purell stands around the venue, while our corner of the world remained open for the time being.  We spoke about TRI’s plans for the Olympics in Tokyo that summer. A few weeks later, the entire event would be pushed back a year — the first such postponement in history. In the years that followed, Covid-19 tested the limits…

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The U.K.’s financial services regulator has raided eight addresses in London as part of an operation working with police and tax authorities to disrupt illicit crypto activity and prevent possible financial crime risks. It is the first time the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has cooperated with other agencies to clamp down on illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading, which involves individuals buying and selling crypto directly with each other rather than using a centralized exchange. Neil Hodge is a freelance business journalist and photographer based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He writes on insurance and risk management, corporate governance, internal audit, compliance, and…

Hoar Construction announced the completion of construction on CityHouse Old Town for American Real Estate Partners (AREP). CityHouse Old Town is a seven-story, office-to-residential conversion project on King Street in Alexandria, Virginia. Hoar served as the general contractor, working closely with AREP to realize the developer’s vision of transforming the property into a vibrant, mixed-use residential community. 1101 King Street’s transformation included converting the 141,000-square-foot office building into CityHouse Old Town, a 236,000-square-foot multifamily community. The project began with consolidating seven separately owned condo interests and working closely with city planning, economic development, and preservation stakeholders. Hoar then reconfigured the…

Blackstone’s Schwarzman says AI data center portfolio can double from here as firm touts $150 billion in assets Pensions & Investments Source link

TORONTO, April 23, 2026 /CNW/ – Franklin Templeton Canada today announced cash distributions for certain ETFs and ETF series of mutual funds available to Canadian investors. As detailed in the table below, unitholders of record as of April 30, 2026, will receive a per-unit cash distribution payable on May 8, 2026. Fund Name Ticker Type Cash Distribution Per Unit($) Payment Frequency Franklin Brandywine Global Income Optimiser Fund – ETF Series FBGO Active 0.084125 Monthly Franklin ClearBridge Global Infrastructure Income Fund – ETF Series FCII Active 0.052318 Monthly Franklin Canadian Government Bond Fund – ETF Series FGOV Active 0.053797 Monthly Franklin…

Aleksandar Tomic, director of the Woods College M.S. in Applied Economics program, weighed in on the best U.S. economic sectors for work in a pandemic for Zenger News and commented on why Canada’s job market is recovering from COVID-19 faster than the U.S. in Yahoo Finance. He discussed the uneven impact COVID-19 has had on various industries for Bond Buyer (p. 2), and addressed the origins and impact of the Great Depression for Business Insider.     Source link