Riverwater Partners, an investment management company, released its “Small Cap Strategy” Q2 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The Small Cap Core Strategy underperformed the Russell 2000 in Q2 2025, primarily due to the portfolio’s more defensive holdings and the market's preference for low-quality companies. In addition, you can check the fund’s top 5 holdings to determine its best picks for 2025. In its second-quarter 2025 investor letter, Riverwater Small Cap Strategy hi ...

Hitachi Rail has inaugurated its new digital factory in Hagerstown, Maryland, US, marking a “strategic investment” in North America by the Hitachi Group. The $100m facility, which spans 307,000ft², is intended to produce railcars for various metropolitan areas, including Washington DC, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. It already has orders totalling more than 600 railcars from these regions. Designed to operate with zero landfill waste, the factory incorporates more than $30m in digital enhancements aimed at ...

Riverwater Partners, an investment management company, released its “Small Cap Strategy” Q2 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The Small Cap Core Strategy underperformed the Russell 2000 in Q2 2025, primarily due to the portfolio’s more defensive holdings and the market's preference for low-quality companies. In addition, you can check the fund’s top 5 holdings to determine its best picks for 2025. In its second-quarter 2025 investor letter, Riverwater Small Cap Strategy hi ...

By Suzanne McGee and Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) -Asset manager VistaShares has selected high-profile investor Bill Ackman as the fund manager to mimic in its newest exchange-traded fund. The VistaShares Target 15 ACKtivist Distribution ETF made its debut on Tuesday amid a boom in such funds either overseen by or designed to replicate the portfolios of top managers like Ackman. It follows the success of VistaShares' first such offering, the VistaShares Target 15 Berkshire Select Income ETF, which trac ...

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A federal judge approved Vanguard Group's $25 million settlement of a lawsuit accusing the U.S. mutual fund company of improperly saddling investors in its target-date funds with inflated tax bills. U.S. District Judge John Murphy in Philadelphia granted preliminary approval on Monday, calling the settlement sufficiently fair, reasonable, and adequate, after rejecting a $40 million settlement on May 19. Murphy objected because Vanguard could have offset the $40 million fro ...

AI has unleashed more bad actors for cybersecurity firms to defend against, expanding the total addressable market for the industry. "AI is minting more adversaries," CrowdStrike founder and CEO George Kurtz told me at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference on Tuesday. "We've actually identified and found malware that uses any of the number of public GPTs to actually query, figure out what system it's on, figure out what it's doing, and then write scripts to actually go out and pull data back based up ...

Even in spite of the ugly headlines early in the second quarter, many retirement savers didn't give in to panic and hit the brakes.Make no mistake, investors saw ungodly moments early in 2025, including the dramatic fallout in April on Wall Street as tariffs triggered turmoil in both the stock and bond markets.Overtime pay tax break: What the new IRS rules really meanShamrell noted that history has shown that when markets rebound, they often do so quickly.“The fact that many of our retirement savers stayed ...

The buyer with the higher credit score spends less of their monthly payment on interest, leaving more room to afford a larger home or to keep more cash in their pocket. Over the life of a 30-year mortgage, even that $119 monthly difference adds up to more than $42,000 in savings. And because lenders see higher-score borrowers as less risky, they not only qualify for lower rates but also face reduced fees at closing.That’s a difference of $119 per month, or $1,428 a year, between the top and bottom credit ti ...

Olivia from Tulsa, Oklahoma, called into The Ramsey Show to ask for advice on whether her husband should take on more student debt to pursue an additional degree that could more than double his income potential. The husband just earned a nursing degree and is set to make approximately $100,000 a year, including overtime. He wants to go back to school for three years to get a doctorate in nurse anesthesia, which could net him a $250,000 yearly income, but tuition would cost $125,000. Meanwhile, the couple ...

Collecting stuffed toys isn’t exactly groundbreaking. But if you’ve noticed a mischievous little elf-monster dangling from someone’s handbag or even a scuffle breaking out in the toy aisle, you’ve probably crossed paths with the Labubu — this season’s unlikeliest It item. Just ask Manna Wang, a Hong Kong insurance agent who went so far as to hire a college student to hunt them down at any price. In June, that student struck gold: six Labubus priced at HK$99 (about $12.70) each, then flipped for around HK$ ...