Money Matters
For decades, private-equity (PE) returns—with their eye-catching double-digit internal rates of return—were the stuff of institutional portfolios: university endowments, giant pension plans, and ultra-high-net-worth family offices. That wall is now…
Why the fuss? Because Blackwell Ultra is NVIDIA’s first AI-GPU family expected to tap TSMC’s 3-nanometre class process—a shrink from today’s 4N node—and early back-channel reports say the company has…
The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) has issued a draft guidance note that would lift the bar for funds marketed as “sustainable” under the UCITS regime. The consultation, open until…
Balanced mutual funds—those classic “60 percent stocks / 40 percent bonds” workhorses—still command more than US $1.7 trillion in American retirement accounts, yet many advisers say the category feels tired.…
When BlackRock rolled out the iShares Active Artificial Intelligence ETF (ticker BAI) back in February 2024, the offering looked like a boutique sidecar. Assets totaled just $38 million after the…
Ever since Dimensional Fund Advisors pulled off its high-profile 2021 conversion, fund lawyers have looked for ways to mass-migrate entire mutual-fund line-ups into exchange-traded wrappers. Until now, those plans were…
When target-date funds (TDFs) debuted in the late 1990s, portfolio designers assumed most retirees would tap accounts for 25 years, give or take. Fast-forward to 2025: new actuarial tables estimate…
First it was torrential rain, then scorching heat. Now swollen-shoot disease is back in full force. Preliminary field surveys compiled this month by two major European grinders suggest that West…
Indonesia spent the past decade courting global capital by promising an endless stream of low-cost nickel ore. Then, in late July, a draft decree leaked from the Energy and Mineral…
A winding stretch of highway in Peru’s southern Andes rarely makes international headlines. Yet when local residents barricaded the so-called “mining corridor” in late July, trucks laden with copper concentrate…