Author: Arabian Media staff

Diversification is a pillar of sound investing, with portfolios including a range of stocks, bonds, and collections of investments such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and index funds.  One of the most popular types of ETFs and index funds tracks the S&P 500 Index, which focuses on approximately 500 of the largest publicly traded U.S. companies, and covers approximately 80% of available market capitalization, per S&P Global. For this reason, investing in the S&P 500 can help balance the investment risk in your portfolio. Because the index includes companies from all sectors of the economy, risk is spread across a broad…

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Dollar-cost averaging (DCA) attempts to mitigate the emotional aspect of investing by taking some of the choice of when and how much to invest in a particular security out of the hands of the investor. With DCA, investors pick a target security and invest a fixed amount of money at regular intervals, regardless of what the price of that security is at any given time. DCA is a tool to limit risk. While DCA can work for any security, many investors apply this technique to an investment in the S&P 500 Index, a broad collection of around 500 large-cap U.S.…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.A group of big banks and other financial institutions are stepping up their efforts to tokenise global stock and bond markets by using solana, the blockchain best known for hosting the memecoins of Donald and Melania Trump.R3, a UK software group that has been developing blockchains for some of these big institutions, on Thursday agreed a deal with the Solana Foundation that will allow it and its customers to use the solana blockchain. The foundation, in turn, will make an undisclosed investment…

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Image: Supplied The UAE’s real estate sector is going to see an influx of global private capital, institutional capital, and international family offices and funds as the market matures. With strong regulatory environment that supports international capital to benefit from the opportunities, capital from all over the world is entering the UAE market. It is expected to see a shift towards digitization with Cryptocurrency, Tokenisation, Virtual Assets, Crowdfunding, Fractional Ownership, among others. Amit Goenka, Chairman and MD of Nisus Finance, explains why and how this is happening and how the market will benefit from the influx of new capital. What’s…

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Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the US financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.It’s hard not to laugh (hollowly) at the state of financial regulation in today’s America. The shot, from the WSJ three days ago:SEC Chair Signals Investor Access to Private Markets Could Soon BroadenThe Securities and Exchange Commission’s new chairman signaled Monday that he is open to letting fund managers sell private-investment products to a broader swath of investors. The chaser, from the FT yesterday: Banks’ links to private credit could pose systemic risk, says Boston FedBank lending to the $1.6tn private credit…

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