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The fund blends high yield corporate bonds, senior loans, and debt tranches of U.S. collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) into a single actively managed portfolio, aiming to deliver income that beats the broad bond market while keeping volatility lower than any single segment on its own.

"The specific barrier is capital," says Lisa George, global head of the Macquarie Group Foundation. "Without access to capital, it's very hard to get social mobility and educational mobility in life."

Bernard Jackman is a former professional rugby player and coach turned rugby pundit, public speaker and performance consultant. He played for Connacht, Leinster, and Sale Sharks.

Kilgour arranged a bank loan and in June 1989 he launched Four Seasons Health Care, taking the name from a restaurant in Midtown Manhattan where he had once dined.

Maven supported us at a key point when we were scaling our market presence, and that foundation has helped us reach over 1,000 customers globally.

QYLD has been running the covered call playbook on the Nasdaq-100 since December 2013, and with $8.3 billion in assets, it remains the dominant fund in this category. The strategy is straightforward: hold the Nasdaq-100 and sell covered call options against the entire index each month, collecting premium that gets distributed to shareholders as income.

EWP is a pure-play bet on Spanish large-cap equities. It tracks the MSCI Spain Index and holds roughly 30 publicly traded Spanish companies, giving investors concentrated exposure to a single economy rather than the blended eurozone exposure you'd get from a broader fund. The ETF has been around since March 1996 and currently holds about $1.9 billion in net assets.

FELG is not a thematic bet on a single trend. It is a factor-enhanced large-cap growth fund - meaning it applies a systematic, quantitative screen on top of the large-cap growth universe to tilt toward companies with stronger fundamentals. That structure does not go stale. Growth companies rotate in and out, but the process of selecting the better ones within that universe remains relevant across economic regimes.

A dollar invested in the firm's flagship hedge fund at inception would be worth $28 after fees at the end of 2025, compared to less than $9 for the S&P 500.

Hedge funds and other money managers spent $2.8 billion on alternative data in 2025, according to a new report from consultancy Neudata, a 17% jump from the year before. It's more than double what asset managers spent on alternative data in 2021, which includes a wide range of non-traditional information sources. The report projects that the total spend on alternative datasets could jump to more than $23 billion in the consultancy's bull case in 2030 and just under $8 billion in the bear case.

Private equity firms operating in the UK face a uniquely complex accounting landscape. Between fund structures, special purpose vehicles (SPVs), regulatory requirements and investor reporting, financial management can quickly become overwhelming. For many firms, legacy systems and spreadsheets are no longer sufficient to support the level of accuracy, transparency and efficiency required. As a result, an increasing number of UK firms are turning to dedicated private equity accounting software to simplify fund and SPV accounting while improving control and compliance.

We begin with a deliberately ambitious question. What would it take for every person on Earth to live at least as well as someone in Switzerland does today-by 2100? Not culturally Swiss, but economically empowered with high incomes, long lives, strong education, and social cohesion. Achieving this would require global GDP to be about 8.5 times higher than it is today. That figure alone is enough to trigger skepticism. Will we have enough energy, materials, food, and innovation?

UBS Group AG is preparing to offer bitcoin trading to a select group of private banking clients in Switzerland. According to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter, the Swiss banking giant has been in discussions for several months about launching a cryptocurrency trading offering and is currently in the process of selecting external partners. The service would initially be limited to a small subset of Swiss private banking clients, with a broader rollout possible at a later stage.

When Obvious Ventures launched 12 years ago with a focus on "world positive" companies, the idea was a contrarian bet: that startups tackling climate, health, and economic resilience could deliver big returns, not just feel-good impact. Founded by Twitter cofounder Ev Williams and others, the firm backed companies like Beyond Meat, the AI drug discovery company Recursion Pharmaceuticals, and Diamond Foundry, which makes sustainable lab-grown diamonds.

The public markets are thinning, the private markets are exploding, and AI is wholly destabilizing both.

Competition for top quant talent has never been stiffer. With top hedge funds and high-frequency trading firms in expansion mode - and increasingly encroaching on the same turf - the mathematicians, physicists, data scientists, and engineers who power them are in high demand. The emergence of AI labs, which can outbid even the top-tier finance firms with war chests of tens of billions in capital, has only ratcheted up the competition.

The Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD) has become immensely popular among dividend investors. And it has a lot to show for it. SCHD offers a high yield of about 4%. It also screens for high-quality companies with strong financials and consistency in paying out dividends. And it has maintained a hefty five-year return of over 40%. Plus, you get all this for the very reasonable expense ratio of 0.06%.