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If you’re in the market for a home equity loan or line of credit, understanding home price trends is important, since rising property values are one of the main ways homeowners build equity. This embedded content is not available in your region. According to the latest S&P Cotality Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, property values posted a 0.7% gain in March. “The geographic divergence remains stark,” said Nicholas Godec, CFA, CAIA, CIPM, Head of Fixed Income Tradables & Commodities at S&P Dow Jones Indices. “Midwest and Northeast markets are sustaining modest growth, while much of the Sun Belt…

12:01 AM, 29th May 2026, 12 hours ago Four buy to let lenders have announced a raft of mortgage changes including a 4.19% two-year tracker and a 4.74% limited-edition five-year fix. Commercial cases are in the mix too as InterBay cuts owner-occupier rates by up to 40 basis points, while Coventry for intermediaries has reduced selected BTL rates by up to 16 basis points. The Mortgage Works has introduced three two-year tracker products for new and existing buy to let customers, each available up to 65% loan-to-value (LTV) with a 1% fee. Its purchase and remortgage tracker, with a free…

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KUALA LUMPUR (May 25): Deputy Finance Minister Liew Chin Tong on Monday called for corporations and the capital market to play a bigger role in supporting social enterprises and community-driven initiatives, saying Malaysia needs broader market-based solutions to tackle long-term social and developmental challenges. Liew said a stronger and more inclusive society is critical to supporting Malaysia’s long-term economic resilience, adding that better allocation of resources towards social priorities would help strengthen the foundations for sustainable growth while ensuring no communities are left behind. “While the current focus of the Social Exchange is on donation-giving to non-profit organisations, the broader…

The Investors Who Win in 2026 Are Not Using More Software, Tthey are using better systems. For years, real estate investors believed growth came from adding more software. One platform handled direct mail. Another managed lead tracking. Another controlled follow-up. Another organised acquisition. Another handled communication. Every new software platform promised to save time and improve efficiency. However, for many investor businesses, the opposite happened. Processes slowed down, communication became fragmented, and acquisitions teams whose primary responsibility was talking to motivated sellers spent most of their time managing software instead of closing deals. What looked like growth externally eventually turned…

Against a backdrop of increased geopolitical instability, Suffolk Building Society has seen a 140% increase in expat cases. The Society compared figures from the beginning of the conflict in Iran with the preceding two-month period. Year-on-year analysis by the specialist expat lender also revealed a similar trend. Comparing March and April 2026 with the same period last year, the Society recorded a 102% increase in expat applications and a 33% rise in £1m+ applications. Suffolk’s figures also reveal that the number of applications from British nationals residing in the Gulf states remained stable across the two-month period, March…

Open this photo in gallery:Diversified portfolios require investing far beyond Canada – and the U.S., too.Getty ImagesStan Wong, a senior wealth advisor and portfolio manager, recently found himself reviewing a new client’s holdings. On paper, the portfolio looked well constructed. It included dozens of positions spanning banks, energy companies and a handful of familiar U.S. names. A closer look told a different story.“It’s something we see all the time. Portfolios that appear diversified are often heavily concentrated in Canada, with maybe some U.S. exposure but very little true global diversification,” says Mr. Wong, who runs The Stan Wong Group in…

India needs to unlock the massive stock of household gold lying idle and simultaneously reduce regulatory and compliance hurdles for businesses to achieve the goal of becoming a developed nation, Kotak Mutual Fund Managing Director Nilesh Shah said on Tuesday.Speaking at a conference organised by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry on geopolitical shocks and financial stability, Shah highlighted the scale of India’s gold imports and called for policies that would help channel dormant household wealth into the formal economy.“In the last 25 years of this century, we have imported 510 billion dollars of gold on official account,” Shah…

This article was written byFollowI am a financial analyst with a background in corporate finance, credit analysis, and market research, with a particular focus on fixed income and income-generating assets. My work on Seeking Alpha focuses on preferred stocks, bonds, REITs, BDCs, and fixed income investment assets, areas where I believe rigorous credit analysis is often underrepresented in the volume of equity-focused commentary available to individual investors. My approach to investing is fundamentally driven by risk-adjusted returns. I look for situations where the market has mispriced a security relative to its credit quality. I pay close attention to balance sheet…

[Editor’s Note: This is the third of a four-part series.] Part 3: Special Teams — Diversification A New Way To Understand, Explain And Allocate Alternative investments have moved from the sidelines to the mainstream of portfolio construction. In 2025, the White House issued an Executive Order advocating for alts in the 401(k)s of 90 million American savers. In 2026, the Department of Labor proposed regulations to facilitate alts in target-date and allocation funds for these DC plans. Unfortunately, the alts conversation has long focused on individual strategies in isolation: what each one does, not how…