April 19, 2025
Financial Assets

I’m spending my kids’ inheritance to teach them the value of money

I think that’s the greatest gift we can give them (Picture: Raj Gill) When I read that Joe Swash and Stacey Soloman don’t intend to give their kids any inheritance, I was surprised to say the least.  Not because I think the celeb couple are wrong for keeping their £6.5 million fortune for themselves, but

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Financial Assets

Spring Budget: Will bond vigilantes strike again?

Another Budget, another prime minister glancing at yields on his phone, as he sits next to his chancellor while they are delivering their customary speech. Is there a real risk that gilt yields will consign Sir Keir Starmer to the history books as they did Liz Truss? The experience of losing a PM due to

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Gold Investing

The gold miners set to mirror the precious metal’s surge

With the prospect of a disruptive global trade war looming into view, nervous investors have stepped up their exposure to precious metals. You could be forgiven for thinking that emerging market central banks have been the prime drivers of the market in recent times, but – as with equities – the activity of retail investors

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Financial Assets

Asset servicing news and commentary

Industry DTCC joins ERC3643 Association 20 March 2025 US Reporter: Carmella Haswell The ERC3643 token standard is an open-source suite of smart contracts that enable the issuance, management, and transfer of permissioned tokens Industry Liberis and Teya extend collaboration 20 March 2025 Czech Republic Reporter: Clelia Frondaroli This new addition to the partnership will expand

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Operating Assets

Minnesota can adopt a tax fix for the vacant lot problems cities face

Cityscape | Twin Cities urban geographer Bill Lindeke weighs in on city life, transportation, planning and more in his column delivered to your inbox weekly.  Throughout various neighborhoods of Minneapolis, abandoned buildings and underutilized lots display a legacy of land speculation and missed opportunities.  Consider the 200 Oak Grove apartments—a once-vibrant complex, now reduced to

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Intangible Assets

Patenting space: promoting innovations and patents for exploring our final frontier

Whether you’re NASA Administrator nominee Jared Isaacman, Virgin Galactic Founder Richard Branson, Artemis mission specialist Christina Koch, or even fictional astronaut and self-proclaimed “space pirate” Mark Watney, setting out on our final frontier and exploring space requires the right technology. The technology associated with space exploration has come a long way from the once-cutting-edge systems

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Fixed Assets

‘Now may be time to invest in EM bonds and infrastructure’

The current bond market landscape is interesting, with signs that bond yields have peaked, in the short term at least. This may present a potential turning point for fixed income and ‘bond-adjacent’ assets, such as infrastructure, that have been under pressure due to rising longer-term rates.  However, with inflation persisting and growth remaining hard to

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Financial Assets

Labour need to learn there is no magic money mountain says Tory peer

As Chancellor Rachel Reeves is under pressure to reduce spending and increase taxes, Liam asks Lord Moynihan why he thinks the UK is locked in “slow growth” since the global financial crisis of 2007. “The economy was growing like gangbusters, and it was wonderful. What went wrong, in my view, was not so much the

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Financial Assets

Biden promises to cancel student loan debt. The truth is he can’t

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris continue to march forward with debt forgiveness plans that they have no authority to implement. Millennials: Thousands in debt, little in the bank, yet loves vacations Millennials are struggling to stay financially afloat these days thanks to rising rent, and student loan debt. Buzz60 It’s the middle of August, which

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Tangible Assets

Sha’Carri Richardson leaves Olympics with relay gold, story untold

Sha’Carri gets first gold, Olivia Reeves makes US weightlifting proud Sha’Carri Richardson won her first gold in Paris, US weightlifter Olivia breaks both a drought and a record, US women roll to finals in basketball. SAINT-DENIS, France – Maybe with Sha’Carri Richardson a stare is worth 1,000 words. It better be, because one of the

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