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The one-day summit will explore alternative investments from private equity and real assets to private credit, infrastructure, and digital assets which are playing an increasingly central role in institutional and wholesale strategies.   The 2026 program will feature keynote presentations and panels focused on the major trends transforming the industry, including:    Navigating a Fragmented Global Market: Where Capital Flows Next  Private Equity & Venture Capital   Alternatives Integration & Portfolio Construction   Equities, Bonds and Diversifiers   Thematic and Impact Investing   Building the Next-Generation Advice Practice      The summit is expected to attract senior decision-makers from across the financial services ecosystem, providing attendees with valuable opportunities to connect, collaborate and gain actionable…

A bank has introduced a new service designed to support buy-to-let mortgage applications that fall outside standard lending criteria.Paragon Bank’s service – called Tailored – provides what it calls a more flexible approach to lending, reflecting the increasingly diverse nature of landlord businesses and property portfolios, where not all cases fit within conventional criteria.The proposition is suited to a range of scenarios, including landlords seeking higher loan amounts, those with larger or more complex portfolios and cases involving non-standard ownership structures, such as trusts or trading companies. It can also support landlords with varied tenant types, applications outside typical age parameters…

Manli RTX 3060 and  RTX 3050 6GB re-releasedManli lists new GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 3050 cards, Ampere returns after five years.Manli has added two GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards to its website. The company now lists a GeForce RTX 3060 M2521+N630 and a GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Nebula Twin, both based on NVIDIA’s Ampere architecture.The RTX 3060 is the 12GB model with 3584 CUDA cores. Manli lists a 1320 MHz base clock and 1777 MHz boost clock. The card uses 12GB of GDDR6 memory at 15 Gbps across a 192-bit bus, giving it 360 GB/s of bandwidth. So…

JAKARTA – Indonesia is scaling back a controversial proposal to centralise the export of its strategic commodities, after buyers and exporters raised concerns, The Straits Times has learnt.Instead, the authorities will impose tighter monitoring on exports of key commodities to prevent exporters from understating shipment values and evading taxes, two government officials told ST.The shift marks a retreat from an earlier plan that would have channelled overseas sales of commodities such as coal, palm oil and ferroalloys through a state-linked entity, a proposal that sparked concerns over market disruption and tighter export control.But Indonesia is not going ahead with such…

Track your investments for FREE with Simply Wall St, the portfolio command center trusted by over 7 million individual investors worldwide. Alstom (ENXTPA:ALO) has issued its first European Green Hybrid Bonds to fund projects aligned with its sustainability objectives. The European Railways Agency has granted marketing authorisation for Alstom’s new generation TGV-M high-speed train to enter commercial service in Europe. Alstom, a global rail equipment and services company, sits at the intersection of decarbonisation goals and growing demand for low carbon transport. The green hybrid bond issue and the TGV-M authorisation give investors fresh information on how the company is…

Around one in eight people say they are likely to place a bet on a World Cup game, according to a Government-backed body, which is urging people to keep track of their spending. A survey commissioned by the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) found that 12% of people said they are likely to place a bet on a World Cup game. Of those who typically bet on football matches, nearly half (44%) bet more than £5 on a single match, with 15% betting £10 or more. Among those who bet, more than a third (36%) do so at least once…

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The Mortgage Works is from tomorrow (Friday 5 June) cutting rates by up to 0.22 percentage points on selected one, two and five-year fixed rate products for new and existing customers. These rate cuts will be across The Mortgage Works’ buy-to-let, let-to-buy, Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) and limited company buy-to-let ranges. Buy-to-let rate cuts include: Five-year fixed rate (remortgage only with free valuation and free legals) buy-to-let mortgage at 4.22% (reduced by 0.22%) with a 3% fee, available up to 65% LTV. Five-year fixed rate (existing customer switcher) buy-to-let mortgage at 4.22% (reduced by 0.07%) with a 3% fee,…

Jun 10, 2026 Gold’s steep pullback in 2026 might rattle market participants, yet one analyst contends that the yellow metal is still entrenched in a historic uptrend that is mirroring one of its most remarkable past surges with striking precision. Jeff Clark, who publishes The Gold Advisor, told Kitco News that the present decline in gold prices echoes the downturn observed during the famous bull run of the 1970s, which eventually led to one of the strongest rallies in the commodity’s history. Clark stated that he mapped the relationship between the ongoing gold bull market and the one spanning from…

Africa produces approximately 60% of the world’s raw cashews, yet much of the value created through processing, branding, packaging, and distribution is captured elsewhere in the global supply chain. For Lloyd Ward and the team at Ward Holdings International, that imbalance became the starting point for building a different model. Starting With the Market Instead of the Commodity Ward Holdings International, a U.S.-based global enterprise founded in 2018 and operating through subsidiary entities in Tanzania and across Africa, developed what it calls Sustainable Market-Driven Industrialization, or SMDI. The model begins with a full mapping of the global cashew supply chain…