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The ETF landscape includes a growing roster of actively managed strategies that can invigorate portfolios. This particularly includes the fixed income space, where the active ETF wrapper can offer some major benefits compared to index-tracking passive bond funds. The American Century Diversified Corporate Bond ETF (KORP) stands out as a strong actively managed option as…

In This Article At 22, I went to work for a hard money lender doing purchase-rehab loans. I bought my first rental property at 24, which kicked off a decade of active real estate investing before I accepted how badly I’d bungled my early investments and unloaded all of them. By my late 30s, I’d…

Living in Philadelphia’s Society Hill during the 1976 Bicentennial was a banking historian’s dream come true. Most Americans experienced it through the lens of patriotism and politics. I experienced it through the lens of banking history. Philadelphia didn’t just host the Founding Fathers. It financed them. Philadelphia gave us the bank that funded Washington’s army,…

Mortgage affordability remains a key challenge for homebuyers despite a more balanced housing market emerging, according to Propertymark’s Housing Insight report for May 2026. The report found that the Bank of England base rate hold at 3.75% in May provided some stability for borrowers, but affordability pressures continued to influence buyer behaviour. Propertymark said the…

Young Chinese are renting cameras, drones and camping gear instead of buying them. It’s a clever way to save money — but also the latest challenge to Beijing’s effort to get consumers spending.