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The Chanel store on Avenue de la Toison d'Or in Brussels, Belgium, December 26, 2024. HATIM KAGHAT / AFP Chanel needs new blood. The company's 2024 annual results – which closed at the end of December and were released on Tuesday, May 10 – made that clear. The haute couture house, founded in 1910, saw its revenue tumble by 4.3% to €17.9 billion. "Following a period of exponential growth, in 2024 we saw challenging macroeconomic conditions," Chanel CEO Leena Nair told Le Monde. Sales had soared by 16% in 2023,...

It can be taxing trying to keep up with all of the latest developments regarding the imposition of tariffs. From the discussion of tariffs in January after President Donald Trump's inauguration to the April announcement regarding their imposition to recent news that tariffs on goods from China would be reduced, it's been a dizzying few months. But one place where some are turning to maintain their maintain their equilibrium, some are turning to companies committed to manufacturing in America -- visionary companies like Archer Aviation (ACHR -0.88%), First Solar (FSLR...

In this episode of The Smart Property Investment Show, host Liam Garman sits down with Sam Gordon from Australian Property Scout and the School of Property to discuss property investment strategies and common mistakes. The duo starts by discussing Sam’s 15 years of experience in property investment, which has helped him shape different strategies, showing that resilience is essential, as the path to success includes challenges and setbacks. While the duo agrees that the best time to invest may have been years ago, the next best time is now. You’re...

00:00 Speaker A Financial services company Empower, which oversees $1.8 trillion in 401k type plans for 19 million people, is offering something new for your retirement accounts: private markets investments. The firm announcing assets like private credit and real estate will be available in some of the accounts it administers later this year. So what does this mean for the larger 401k landscape, and do you want alternative assets in your retirement account? Here to react is Bob Powell, editor and publisher of Retirement Daily, and host of Yahoo Finance's...

WHAT’S ON THE AUSTRALIAN REGULATORY HORIZON? In this publication, we provide an overview of certain upcoming changes for private equity funds and their investors (both Australian and foreign) investing in Australia. The key takeaways are set out below. New Mandatory Merger Control Regime A new mandatory merger control notification regime will be introduced effective from 1 January 2026, with transitional provisions starting from 1 July 2025. Draft Guidelines by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and draft Determinations by the Australian Government have been released for consultation. However, there...

One of the biggest hotel sales in recent years was just completed in the Valley of the Sun. Nashville, Tenn.-based Ryman Hospitality Properties has acquired the 950-room JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa from Trinity Investments for $865 million. Trinity purchased the hotel in 2019 for $602 million and oversaw a $100 million renovation that finished in 2023. SEE ALSO: NewMark Merrill’s Sandy Sigal Is a Realist About Retail’s Future The transaction marks the largest hotel sale of the year thus far, and the largest hospitality deal since RIDA...

Jack Shelton is a co-founder of Aegis Space Law. getty In the investment landscape, we often encounter a scenario like the following: Three friends from college found a startup in the space industry. Two of the co-founders are American citizens, but the third is an Indian citizen, who is in the U.S. on a student visa. The company begins R&D with respect to a type of spacecraft called an "orbital transfer vehicle." Sometime later, the co-founders negotiate a $3 million investment in exchange for 20% equity and a board seat...

Banks, non-bank lenders and financial institutions may get to invest up to 10% in the corpus of alternate investment fund (AIF) schemes, in a relief for the sector that faced a central bank clampdown in December, 2023. There will be no restriction on regulated entities (REs) such as banks for investing up to 5% in the AIF scheme's corpus, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) proposed on Monday. However, if the AIF scheme invests in a company that has borrowed from the bank, then the RE must make full provision to...

Philip Raices So today’s question is where is the best and safest place to park your investment dollars?  I firmly believe it is rental real estate.  It’s a long term play.  Your tenants over the years will continue to pay down your mortgage.  However, there is some effort that you will have to provide or hire someone to assist you to simplify the process.  In my professional opinion, there is much less uncertainty with the right real estate investment, than playing the stock  market.  The stock market has been so...

This article is an on-site version of our FirstFT newsletter. Subscribers can sign up to our Asia, Europe/Africa or Americas edition to get the newsletter delivered every weekday morning. Explore all of our newsletters hereGood morning and welcome to FirstFT Asia. On today’s agenda:Nvidia announces major new investment in TaiwanThe Trump Organization considers building a Vietnam towerBusinesses rethink their US travelNvidia chief executive Jensen Huang unveiled major new chip investments in Taiwan yesterday, as he stressed the island’s importance as a global technology hub during a speech at Taipei’s Computex...