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For income investors, closed-end funds remain an attractive investment class that covers a variety of asset classes and promises high distributions and reasonable total returns.

TORONTO, June 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sprott Focus Trust, Inc. (Nasdaq-FUND) (the “Fund” or “FUND”) has declared a quarterly distribution of $0.1389 per share on its Common Stock. The d

XPeng led the investment into Rockets Capital, a $200 million fund focused on investing in electric vehicles, clean energy and "frontier technology areas."

What''s up, everybody? It''s your boy, Brandon Copeland, aka Professor Cope, and you are now tuned in to another special episode of Cope''ing With Money . So, it is tax season, and I have been on record time and time again saying that I know we''ve put a lot of focus on investing and budgeting, and those are really, really important topics. But one of the most common misunderstood and overlooked pieces of a full financial game plan is tax strategy. SEE MORE The "Real" Cost of Buying a Home I know it''s tax season, although if you''re keeping your money on your mind, when is it not? Taxes are something that you should be considering throughout the year as you''re making decisions, as you''re making moves. For most people, the due date for the 2021 tax year is April 18. However, you can file for an extension if necessary and push that date back to as far as Oct. 17. Whether you choose to extend or not, we''re going to go over some commonly used tax strategies to make sure that you are getting the most efficient bang for your buck and maximizing your 2021 tax return.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the plea for interim bail of former Fortis Healthcare promoter Shivinder Mohan Singh who along with others is accused of misappropriating Rs 2,397 crore of Religare Finvest Ltd (RFL) funds.Singh had sought interim bail for a short period on “humanitarian grounds” for helping his ailing mother to take part in the last rituals of his maternal uncle, who died on March 8 in Haryana.“We are of the opinion that the presence of the accused was not a must…,” said a bench of Justices M R Shah and B V Nagrathna while dismissing the plea.The bench heard the submissions of senior lawyer Gopal Jain, appearing for the jailed accused, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on behalf of Delhi Police, and senior advocate R Basant, representing the complainant in the case.It took note of the seriousness of the crime in which Singh is facing the charges and the pendency of another case of money laundering in which he was accused of paying a bribe to the tune of Rs 200 crore to get bail.

A battle over the future of some of London''s top restaurants has resumed hostilities after its Thai-based owner prepared legal proceedings against the fund which has just taken over the group''s debt.

SHANGHAI , March 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DataGrand, a well-known AI and RPA vendor announced it had successfully completed Series C financing of $90 million ( RMB 580 million ). The investment comes from four leading investment banks, including CITIC Securities, CMS Securities, GF Securities, CSC Securities, as well as prestigious investment organizations such as SCGC, Hundreds Capital, Xiang He Capital, Legend Star and Sunshine Insurance Group. DataGrand will use the fund to strengthen its lead advantage in Intelligent RPA arena, and accelerate technical innovation and industrial application of its core products and solutions, such as Natural Language Processing(NLP), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Knowledge Graph, Intelligent Recommendations and Hyperautomation. Since 2015, DataGrand has finished … Full story available on Benzinga.com

Market participants attempting to bet on stock-market volatility are facing a reckoning Tuesday, as Barclays halts a fund pegged to VIX.

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Atlant Opportunity, the largest fund under the umbrella of Swedish asset manager Atlant Fonder with about €395 million under management, has been added on the guided fund…

SoftBank, a Japanese conglomerate, announced today that it has an uncapped, evergreen fund made explicitly to back Black, Latinx and Native American entrepreneurs within the United States. The commitment is a continuation of SoftBank’s $100 million Opportunity Growth Fund for underrepresented founders, which first launched in June 2020 in the “wake of increased racial justice.” […]

SoftBank, a Japanese conglomerate, has an uncapped, evergreen fund made explicitly to back Black, Latinx and Native American entrepreneurs in the US.

BOSTON , March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Below is the February 2022 Monthly Update for the Liberty All-Star Growth Fund, Inc. (NYSE: ASG ) Liberty All-Star Growth Fund, Inc. Ticker: ASG Monthly Update, February, 2022 Investment Approach: Fund Style: All-Cap Growth Fund Strategy: Combines three growth style investment managers, each with a distinct capitalization focus (small-, mid- and large-cap) selected and continuously monitored by the Fund''s Investment Advisor. Investment Managers: Weatherbie Capital, LLC Small-Cap Growth Congress Asset Management Company, LLP Mid-Cap Growth Sustainable Growth Advisers, LP Large-Cap Growth Top 20 Holdings at Month-End (31.6% of equity portfolio) 1 SPS Commerce, Inc. 2.5% 2 Amazon.com, Inc. 2.2% 3 UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 1.9% 4 Casella Waste Systems, Inc. 1.8% 5 Microsoft Corp. 1.8% 6 Visa, Inc. 1.7% 7 FirstService Corp. 1.7% 8 SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc. 1.7% 9 Chegg, Inc. 1.6% 10 Globant SA 1.5% 11 StepStone Group, Inc. 1.4% 12 Danaher Corp. Full story available on Benzinga.

It is well known that a career is a lifelong journey that can take many turns. Today we''re taking a look at an inspiring story of a pharmacist who ended up managing a multi-billion fund focused on cannabis and healthcare. Jason Wild, founder, president and CIO of JW Asset Management and TerrAscend''s (CSE: TER) (OTCQX: TRSSF ) executive chairman, will deliver the keynote speech at the upcoming Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference to be held on April 20 and April 21 at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach Hotel. From Pharma To Cannabis Originally a pharmacist, Wild''s journey led him to become an investor with a firm that oversees $2 billion through a mix of investments in pharmaceuticals and cannabis producers. However, it wasn''t always that way. Wild actually started out with $80,000, which he used to launch JW Asset Management, LLC fund in 1998. Nearly two decades later, his interest shifted to medical cannabis companies in Canada. As a graduate of the Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy, Wild primarily focused on pharmaceutical investments.

Ecolab Inc. (NYSE:ECL) is an American company involved in water management, food safety, and infection prevention. Bill Gates’ fund has been consistent with its Ecolab Inc.