Gabelli Utilities Fund Q2 2026 Commentary

Pzena Investment Management’s investment philosophy is simple: it seeks to buy good businesses at low prices. Pzena focuses exclusively on companies that are underperforming their historically demonstrated earnings power, performing fundamental, bottom-up research on these companies in an effort to determine whether the problems that caused the earnings shortfall are temporary or permanent. Note: This…

Banking-as-a-service has traditionally had sponsor banks for doing everything themselves: issuing accounts, holding deposits, processing payments and financing lending. But latest earnings from two sponsor-bank operators suggest some flexibility in the model, where deposits can be managed independently from the FinTech relationship itself. First Internet Bancorp indicated that its banking-as-a-service fee revenue increased 172% from…

Only 50% of homes that leave estate agents’ books in the UK are progressing to exchange and completion, according to market data analysed for week 27 of 2026 by Rob Smith, managing director of Hunters, Northwood and Whitegates at The Property Franchise Group. The figures reveal that in June 2026, 66,200 exchanges were recorded whilst…

Asia Shares Soar Amid Tech Rally; Oil Drops With Strait of Hormuz Hopes Market Movements and Economic Updates By Wayne Cole Asian Stock Markets Surge SYDNEY, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Asian stock markets jumped on Wednesday as strong earnings and a resurgence of demand for tech lifted Wall Street to record peaks, while hopes for…

Wikimedia Commons/Kiddo27 Mare Island in Vallejo has more than 2M SF of vacant space. The Nimitz Group, owner of Mare Island Maritime Campus, retained JLL to provide brokerage services for the 350-acre property in Vallejo. The seller will consider transactions, piecemeal leasing or strategic partnerships, according to a release. In addition to more than 2M…