May 9, 2024
Loans

Parents Take Out A Loan To Go On A Fancy Vacation With Their Baby

Parenting decisions are intensely personal and specific to the family making them. Parents who post content of their kids online open themselves up to the opinions of strangers, whether they’re being praised or criticized.  A mom named Alina shared how she and her husband were able to take their baby overseas, yet she got a

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Funds

‘No AT1s. No CCCs:’ Bond Veteran Roberts’ New Fund Favors Safer Debt

(Bloomberg) — David Roberts, a bond market veteran who built several billion-dollar funds from scratch over the past 27 years, is cutting his retirement short and buying debt again. His approach is “No AT1s. No CCCs.””  HT Image {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} The co-manager of Nedgroup Investments’ global strategic bond fund, launched formally on Tuesday,

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Investors

Should stock-market investors stop worrying about the Fed and just keep loving AI?

It might seem at times that investors care more about Jensen Huang than Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Huang is the longtime CEO of chip maker Nvidia Corp. NVDA , which stole the show last week by blowing away already lofty earnings expectations and leading stocks to new rounds of all-time highs, even as nagging

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Loans

DoValue plans to diversify beyond non-performing loans after €19 mln net loss

A view shows the cityscape of Athens, Oct. 24, 2022. [Costas Baltas/Reuters] Italian debt recovery company doValue, which is also active in Greece, plans to diversify its sources of revenue beyond non-performing loans, its CEO said on Friday, after it reported a €19 million net loss for 2023. Healthier bank balance sheets mean levels of

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Finance

Finance expert who paid off more than $78,000 worth of debt reveals simple ‘money rules’ that TRANSFORMED her bank account

Charlotte Darr, based in the US, is a money expert who shares tips online Most recently, she shared the five tips that helped her pay off $78,511 of debt She said that you should avoid credit cards and keep an emergency fund A money expert has shared the five money rules you should live by

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Investment

The truth about investing: ‘Common sense’ can be the worst advice

In a recent article I offered the opinion that “common sense” is a dangerous trap that’s easy for investors to fall into. Some readers didn’t agree. So let’s explore this idea a bit, then you can make up your own mind. Common sense is a popular topic for authors. I have often recommended ​”The Little Book of Common

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Finance

5 questions with USAA’s Mark Pregmon

USAA Vice President of Consumer Lending Mark Pregmon aims to lead his team with humility and a servant leadership mindset while trying to pass down knowledge to his employees.  Pregmon builds a positive work environment that encourages a balance between work and home life, he told Auto Finance News. He said he aims to pass

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Investors

What investors with $6.5 trln in cash should do while waiting for Fed rate cuts

The Federal Reserve’s pushback on expectations for interest-rate cuts over the past two weeks has investors closing watching inflation data and piling more cash into money-market funds. Investors stashed a record $6.48 trillion away in U.S. money-market funds through the end of January, with the balance growing as euphoria in December over a Fed policy

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Investment

These mutual-fund and ETF investing tips keep your portfolio in the game

Published: Feb. 8, 2024 at 6:05 p.m. ET Don’t miss these top money and investing features: . INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS This fund manager stopped worrying about economics. Now he is outperforming the stock market. A change in strategy has helped transform the GoodHaven Fund from a long-term underperformer into an outperformer since the end

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Funds

SEC set to force hedge funds, high-frequency traders to register

The Securities and Exchange Commission is set to impose new rules that would require many private funds to register with the agency as so-called dealers, a move that regulators say will help them better monitor a sometimes wobbly market for U.S. government debt. When firms that deal Treasury bonds register with the SEC “they become

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