June 21, 2025
Fixed Assets

Why real assets matter more than ever

Bond markets are flashing warnings of rising yields and global monetary inflation, pushing investors toward real assets like Bitcoin, gold, and property. We’re entering a new era of persistent monetary inflation, and traditional investment strategies like the 60/40 model (stocks and bonds) may no longer work. According to financial expert Michael Howell, the key to

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Operating Assets

Damascus stock exchange eyes investment funds in the short term: bourse chief Asaad

The Damascus Securities Exchange (DSE) aims to attract investment funds in 2025 or next year as part of its plans to introduce new products, Basel Asaad, the executive director of the bourse told Zawya in a phone interview on June 1. Trading resumed on June 2, after more than five months of suspension. Last month, Western countries led

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Fixed Assets

BNY makes job cuts in Newton business to ‘streamline’ brand

Several fund managers have been made redundant at Newton Investment Management, the asset management business owned by BNY, as it seeks to “streamline” the company. BNY previously announced Newton chief executive Euan Munro and co-chief investment officer Mitesh Sheth were leaving with their roles and not being replaced. But FT Adviser can reveal further job

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Gold Investing

“Gold and Silver are Supporting Actors When the Hero Doesn’t Perform”

Look at gold and silver as supporting actors which come into picture only when hero assets like equities don’t perform. You need to minimise changes in asset allocation to succeed. Don’t go by labels such as “growth” and “value”, the only thing that matters is buying rising cash flows at a reasonable price. In this

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Financial Assets

Why Aviva Investors plans to focus on multi-asset and private markets

Aviva Investors is planning to grow its business with a focus on multi-asset and private markets. Speaking to FT Adviser, Mark Versey, CEO of Aviva Investors, said the two areas of focus for growth in the adviser and wealth management market were multi-asset and real assets.  Speaking about the multi-asset side, he said: “Around 97

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Financial Assets

Market sentiment improves supporting US stock markets

US equities markets rose since our last report as all three major equities indexes S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq moved to higher grounds, albeit with slight variations. In today’s report we are to examine fundamentals which may have affected US equities, have a look at a couple of companies which we found especially interesting

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Financial Assets

Surging on US-China trade deal breakthrough

The S&P 500 is set to rally at the open, but will it extend its gains much further? The S&P 500 closed 0.07% lower on Friday, but today it’s set to open dramatically higher following the breakthrough U.S.-China trade deal announced over the weekend. Futures are surging, with S&P 500 futures up 3.0% and Nasdaq

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Tangible Assets

What key metrics have to say

Wheaton Precious Metals Corp.Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock’s price performance. Here is how Wheaton Precious Metals performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most

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Financial Assets

American investors fret about the stock market

Wall Street quiet ahead of big tech earnings US indices have entered a period of quiet trading as we await the latest batch of earnings from tech companies. But bearishness among individual investors has reached levels not seen in fourteen years, according to today’s Conference Board data. Almost half those surveyed expect stocks to go

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Tangible Assets

A Gold Cup, with a handle

The process Bottoming is a process, so let it unfold. Yesterday’s market message was clear: the S&P 500 lost another -2.36%. While many technical indicators signaled oversold conditions recently and the market did have a short rebound, the most crucial indicator, price, has yet to confirm the all-clear. Price holds immense wisdom because it reflects

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