Money Matters
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…
The oil market’s summer calm was jolted in early July when the OPEC+ coalition announced that eight core producers would lift output by 548 thousand barrels per day (kbpd) for…
The June quarter ended with the S&P 500 clocking a healthy 8 percent total return, yet a handful of Morningstar Gold-rated funds quietly did even better. Their success was no…
In July 2025, Congress passed two landmark bills: the GENIUS Act, establishing federal stablecoin regulation, and the CLARITY Act, creating a broader digital asset oversight regime. The GENIUS Act passed…
At the Victorian Labor Party’s state conference (August 2025), Premier Jacinta Allan announced a world-first policy that would legally enshrine the right for eligible public and private sector employees in…