Tagged: investments

April 18, 2024 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

iCapital, the global fintech platform driving access to alternative investments for the wealth management industry, announced the launch of iCapital Marketplace, a one-stop-shop connecting wealth managers and advisors “with a broad menu of alternative investment opportunities across private equity, private debt, infrastructure, real assets and… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 11:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

When it comes to buying investment properties millennials are not only the most active generation, but many are happy to go it alone, new data from CommBank has found. According to the data, 46 per cent of the banking institution’s new property investors in 2023… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 10:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HeavyFinance has recently shared its latest platform performance review for the month of March 2024. In March, a total of €843,000 was “invested and distributed across 29 agricultural projects” available on the HeavyFinance platform. As of the end of March 2024, a significant sum of… Read More

April 14, 2024 @ 6:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Real Bedford Football Club (RBFC) owner Peter McCormack announced that Winklevoss Capital, the investment firm owned by Gemini founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has made a $4.5M bitcoin investment into the football club. The investment is the largest ever made “into a football club in… Read More

April 14, 2024 @ 4:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at OKX are pleased to announce their investment in Tomo, a Web3 social finance (SocialFi) protocol. This investment underpins OKX‘s commitment to “supporting innovative blockchain technology and Web3 social platforms that redefine the way users connect and interact with each other online.” Tomo’s… Read More

April 12, 2024 @ 9:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance has invested in BounceBit, a Bitcoin restaking and CeDeFi protocol to expand the capabilities of Bitcoin beyond traditional storage of value. BounceBit transforms BTC from a passive asset into “a dynamic force within the ecosystem… Read More

April 11, 2024 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

When it comes to wealth, younger Americans (millennials and Gen Z) have catching up to do, the team at PolicyGenius noted in a recent update. Adult members of these generations “own just 74 cents for every $1 of wealth that baby boomers owned at the… Read More

April 9, 2024 @ 10:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chinese investment in Australia fell 36 percent to AU$1.34 billion in 2023, compared to AU$2.1 billion in 2022, with healthcare overtaking mining as the key industry. It was the second lowest year in investment value “since 2006, and the joint-lowest year in number of investment… Read More

April 9, 2024 @ 1:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Canada is becoming an increasingly viable landscape for investment activity thanks to its favorable regulatory environment, a flourishing tech sector, and the country’s continued commitment to fostering entrepreneurship. As Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) continues to ramp up its generative AI capabilities, the Silicon Valley giant has actively… Read More

April 3, 2024 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AGL Credit Management LP, an investment manager specializing solely on corporate credit strategies, and Barclays Plc, a global Investment Bank, announced an exclusive Cooperation Agreement and the launch of a new private credit investment platform, AGL Private Credit. AGL PC combines AGL’s established credit competency… Read More

March 27, 2024 @ 3:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As speculation about rate cuts intensifies, investors are preparing their portfolios, according to an update from eToro. According to data from the Retail Investor Beat from trading and investment platform eToro, 55% of US retail investors are “adjusting their investment portfolio in anticipation of the… Read More

March 26, 2024 @ 6:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Betterment, the largest independent digital financial advisor, announced that Betterment for Advisors, its RIA custody division, is adding thousands of mutual funds to its custom portfolio construction menu for the first time. This launch coincides with the 100th anniversary of the mutual fund and provides… Read More

March 23, 2024 @ 3:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DBS Bank, together with J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM), has debuted Asia’s first global investment portfolio that not only automatically calibrates its asset allocation to an individual’s life stage and retirement timeline (also known as a “glidepath”), but also allows investors to automate their drawdowns… Read More

March 22, 2024 @ 7:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX, the global financial information provider, and BITA, a provider of indexing technology and services, announced that SIX has made a strategic investment in BITA to strengthen a series of existing joint projects and accelerate the expansion of SIX’s global benchmark platform. Existing BITA shareholders,… Read More

March 20, 2024 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technologies announces the launch of Figure Markets, the first step in a vision to create an “everything marketplace”– a single platform where investors can trade a range of blockchain-native assets from crypto to stocks to alternative investments. Figure Markets has secured over $60 million… Read More

March 16, 2024 @ 2:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

‍L’Atout has reportedly finalized a €2M pre-seed round to launch a platform to enhance employee benefits. L’Atout confirmed raising €2M via an investment round that includes contributions from the Paris Region Venture Fund, the seed capital fund of the Paris Region managed by Karista, and… Read More

March 15, 2024 @ 4:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Five months after Nubank (NYSE: NU) launched its first index funds (ETFs) through its investment fund manager, Nu Asset, Nu Renda Ibov Smart Dividendos (NDIV11) and Nu Ibov Smart Dividendos (NSDV11) have already “accumulated R$57 million in investments, with R$23 million in NSDV11 and R$34… Read More

March 12, 2024 @ 10:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jada Fund of Fun​ds has announced its first investment in Venture Debt and second in the private credit space in Partners for Growth VII, managed by global private credit manager Partners for Growth, “with SAR 3.75 billion (USD 1 billion) in assets under management, to… Read More

March 12, 2024 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

M&G Investments announces the first close of its latest vintage of Real Estate Debt Funds, which includes £350 million of capital from four clients. The capital will be deployed into real estate loans “across Europe originated by M&G’s market leading Real Estate Finance team.” The… Read More

March 11, 2024 @ 12:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm OKX is pleased to announce their strategic investment, through our investment arm, OKX Ventures, in DeBox, a decentralized social networking platform for Web3 communities and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). Over the past two years, DeBox has committed itself “to serving the Web3… Read More