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JANUARY 10, 2024

AGNC Investment (NASDAQ: AGNC) has a massive 14.4% To put that into context, the average real estate investment trust (REIT) yields just 3.9%, using Vanguard Real Estate Index ETF (NYSEMKT: VNQ) as a proxy. The problem with AGNC Investment To get the big news out early, most investors won't want to buy or hold AGNC Investment.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 29, 2024

If there's one thing you need to know about AGNC Investment (NASDAQ: AGNC) , it is that this mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT) has an ultra-high dividend yield of 15%. Here's why most investors will not want to buy AGNC Investment and why some will actually find the high-yield stock quite interesting.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2024

Ark Invest's Cathie Wood has made a name for herself as a bit of a financial maverick. Most funds prefer traditional equities and fixed-income investments. Only roughly 7% of total managed assets are in "alternative investments," which includes a broad array of assets, from farm land to private equity to crypto.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 12, 2024

AGNC Investment (NASDAQ: AGNC) looks like an income stock, but it doesn't actually behave like one. Here's what you need to know before you let a big yield suck you into an investment mistake. What does AGNC Investment do? AGNC Investment is a mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT).

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 17, 2024

His hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital, invests in high-quality businesses with stocks that Ackman feels have become mispriced relative to their intrinsic value. billion portfolio is invested in just three companies. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Bill Ackman likes to focus on just a few companies at a time.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 2, 2024

AGNC Investment (NASDAQ: AGNC) has one shockingly enticing feature: a 15% dividend yield. AGNC Investment, the dividend that just quits The single most important thing that dividend investors need to understand about AGNC Investment's dividend is that you simply can't rely on it. Here's what you need to know.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2023

There are a lot of unknowns today, which can make it difficult to invest. Because of that, you could confidently invest $500 into any of them right now. According to one estimate, companies must invest $1 trillion over the next five years to upgrade data infrastructure worldwide. This year, it's investing $1.5

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Top 1000 Funds

JULY 17, 2024

The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) recently reduced the allocation to equity in its $92.5 billion portfolio in what Pedro Guazo, representative of the secretary-general (RSG) for the investment of the UNJSPF assets, describes as a conservative strategic allocation in response to the overvaluation in tech.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

In what could be a big catalyst for Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) , Cathie Wood's Ark Invest has filed an application for the first-ever spot Ethereum exchange-traded fund (ETF). So could this new ETF from Ark Invest send the price of Ethereum soaring? That's because Ark Invest is essentially skipping a step here.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Swiss Life Asset Managers has launched its first open-ended private infrastructure fund, Swiss Life Funds (LUX) Privado Infrastructure S.A., With a recommended investment horizon of at least seven years, the fund complements existing investments across asset classes like cash, bonds, equities or real estate.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 23, 2024

The Australian Retirement Trust, a pension fund valued at AUD260bn ($174bn), plans to increase its private credit allocation over the next year, targeting opportunities in Europe and North America. To build its exposure to the asset class, ART plans to blend external managers with its internal team.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 22, 2024

There are thousands of cryptocurrencies on the market, making the investing decision process extremely difficult. Investing in Bitcoin can be seen as boring or as limiting possible gains. Investors often invest in obscure or less proven cryptocurrencies in hopes that they have found the next Bitcoin. See you in 2040.

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 31, 2024

New York-based banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co is actively seeking to acquire a private credit firm to strengthen its private capital operations within its $3.6tn asset management division. Source: Private Equity Wire Can’t stop reading?

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

In the past 10 years, the total value of the cryptocurrency asset class has grown significantly from around $12 billion to almost $1.7 Throughout this evolution, one asset has risen to become the epitome of a cryptocurrency and is unequivocally the most robust, resilient, and valuable asset on the market today. trillion today.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Four of New York City’s five public employee pension funds, catering for teachers, police officers, firefighters and civil servants, are to up their allocations to private equity and other illiquid asset classes, as they look to boost investment returns, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Japans Pension Fund Association for Local Government Officials (Chikyoren) has selected four firms two from the US and two from Japan for a global private equity mandate, according to a report by Asia Asset Management. The pension fund oversees assets totaling JPY37.58tn (approximately $237.9bn).

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Aldar Properties is continuing its foray outside the Middle East with a $111 million co-investment with private equity firm The Carlyle Group in logistics and storage assets across Europe. Aldar will join the Carlyle Europe Realty platform, the investment firm’s pan-European real estate portfolio, as part of the deal.

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MAY 5, 2023

Sometime in the next few weeks, I’ll complete my next investment. It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. No new investments. It will also be my last venture capital deal.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 15, 2024

According to Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood, the price of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) could soar to as high as $1.5 Ark Invest is one of the investment firms that received approval for a spot Bitcoin ETF, so it's no surprise that Wood is extremely bullish on what this means for the long-term growth of Bitcoin. million by 2030.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 26, 2024

Day by day, Bitcoin 's (CRYPTO: BTC) unique characteristics, which make it unlike any other asset in the world, are becoming increasingly recognized and understood by investors. Institutional investors are organizations that invest money on behalf of their clients. Essentially, they manage and invest vast sums of money.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

It owns energy infrastructure assets like pipelines and processing and transportation facilities. Unlike many other energy companies, whose revenue and earnings are largely determined by commodity prices, Enterprise gets paid fees for the use of its assets. And the balance sheet is investment grade. times over.

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JULY 8, 2024

It's a bit more complicated and investors, including large entities like pension funds, prefer the corporate share class. Brookfield Renewable is overseen by Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM) , a large Canadian asset manager with a long history of investing in infrastructure assets at a global scale.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2024

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general have been primarily regarded as extremely speculative investments, but the arrival of institutions like Goldman Sachs may change that narrative. Goldman Sachs' investment might be the most notable to come about since the spot ETFs were approved, but it isn't alone. Image source: Getty Images.

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American Investment Council

JULY 18, 2024

Maloney : “Strong private equity returns ensure that tens of millions of dedicated public servants can depend on a well-funded pension to support their well-deserved retirement.” In 2023, private equity investments delivered a median annualized return of 15.2 Washington, D.C. percent over a 10-year period.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 19, 2024

The largest public pension find in Texas, the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, which manages some $202bn in assets, has decided to shift almost $10bn out of private equity investments, according to a report by Bloomberg. Reducing this to 12% means pulling approximately $9.7bn from private equity investments.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Pension fund KPN is aiming to make an investment of between 5% and 7% of its €10bn assets in infrastructure, corporate and real estate debt by 2026, with half of that total going to impact investments – if the fund can identify suitable managers – according to a report by IPE.com.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 16, 2024

Derek Decloet and Christine Dobby of Bloomberg report Canada taps ex-BOC governor to examine how pension funds invest: Canada’s finance minister has asked former central bank governor Stephen Poloz to examine ways to entice its pension funds to invest more in the country.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Despite conservative disdain for environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives -- or "woke" capitalism, as they call it -- one research project found climate change remains a chief concern when asset managers choose not to invest in portfolio companies, the Financial Time s reported.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 18, 2024

This shift is revolutionizing how boomers manage their finances, making it easier to keep tabs on investments and spending in real time. That's not just a big chunk of change -- it's half of the country's $156 trillion in assets. Boomers control a massive share of U.S. Boomers control a massive share of U.S. of all U.S.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

IFM Investors, owned by some of Australia’s biggest pension funds, will spend £10bn ($12.6bn) on infrastructure and energy transition projects in the UK by 2027, under an agreement announced with the government there. Both firms are making their announcements at the Global Investment Summit in London on Monday. Source: Yahoo!

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 9, 2024

Some basic differences in the business model At their core, both Annaly and Realty Income are real estate investment trusts (REITs). This is a corporate structure designed to pass income on to investors via investment in institutional property markets. Should you invest $1,000 in Realty Income right now?

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 31, 2024

The Australian Retirement Trust, a pension fund valued at AUD 260bn ($174bn), plans to increase its private credit allocation over the next year, targeting opportunities in Europe and North America. To build its exposure to the asset class, ART plans to blend external managers with its internal team.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 22, 2024

Of course, the most promising crypto investments are those with new catalysts in place that can help them soar in value throughout 2024. Bitcoin The obvious no-brainer crypto investment is Bitcoin, which is already up nearly 60% for the year. For that, you can thank the tremendous enthusiasm behind the AI investment thesis.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 24, 2024

New York-based banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co is actively seeking to acquire a private credit firm to strengthen its private capital operations within its $3.6tn asset management division, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 28, 2024

AGNC Investment (NASDAQ: AGNC) is not an easy stock to understand. It's often viewed as an income investment because of its huge 14%-plus dividend yield. Here's what you need to know about this niche real estate investment trust (REIT) and why it isn't too late to buy it, but only if you know what you're buying.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 13, 2024

However, there's one significant development that could help it reach this lofty milestone -- spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Consider this: BlackRock 's iShares Bitcoin Trust became the fastest ETF in history to surpass $50 billion in assets under management (AUM), far outpacing the previous record holder.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 23, 2024

It's a clash of titans, because we have two economic theories,” Daniel Brosseau, co-founder and partner at investment firm Letko Brosseau, told BNN Bloomberg in a Monday interview. He said this type of investment approach essentially cedes control of Canadian companies to investors from outside Canada, hampering the economy in the long run.

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