I think they are worth the spend – they make plant care a more relaxing experience The problem Repotting indoors is always so much messier than we imagine. Weeks later, you’ll find compost on the floor and grit in the skirting boards, and one rogue perlite bead will impale itself in your bare foot. Newspapers slip, bin bags tear, and if you rent or have carpet, the fear of a spilt bag of soil is r...
I think they are worth the spend – they make plant care a more relaxing experience The problem Repotting indoors is always so much messier than we imagine. Weeks later, you’ll find compost on the floor and grit in the skirting boards, and one rogue perlite bead will impale itself in your bare foot. Newspapers slip, bin bags tear, and if you rent or have carpet, the fear of a spilt bag of soil is real. Meet the humble repotting mat. It looks simple, but is it effective? The hack A repotting mat is a foldable sheet of waterproof fabric with poppers at the corners. Snap them together, and you get a plant care station. Continue reading...
After a gym in central China suddenly closed, leaving its clients unable to receive refunds, one of its fitness coaches completed his 877 classes at his own expense of 200,000 yuan (US$28,000), stating, “Trust is more important than anything else.” The story of the coach, surnamed Zhang, went viral online and garnered half a million likes on social media in China after being reported by Jiupai New...
After a gym in central China suddenly closed, leaving its clients unable to receive refunds, one of its fitness coaches completed his 877 classes at his own expense of 200,000 yuan (US$28,000), stating, “Trust is more important than anything else.” The story of the coach, surnamed Zhang, went viral online and garnered half a million likes on social media in China after being reported by Jiupai News in mid-March. The 29-year-old Zhang previously worked at Aishang Gym in Wuhan, Hubei province, as...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent regularly says his motivation to get “ out from behind my desk ” and enter public service was concern about growing US debt. Developments over the past several weeks have left those alarms ringing even louder. First came the Supreme Court’s ruling against President Donald Trump ’s sweeping tariffs — a significant source of revenue for the federal government. While ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent regularly says his motivation to get “ out from behind my desk ” and enter public service was concern about growing US debt. Developments over the past several weeks have left those alarms ringing even louder. First came the Supreme Court’s ruling against President Donald Trump ’s sweeping tariffs — a significant source of revenue for the federal government. While the administration aims to rebuild its trade regime via other laws, economists caution that the new levies wouldn’t bring in as much money. As it was, the duties had already peaked in October. Then Trump’s war on Iran drove up the government’s spending needs and clouded the outlook for growth, raising risks for revenue flows. The Pentagon has already asked for an additional $200 billion to finance the conflict. And the surge in oil prices has added to inflation pressures, curbing expectations for the Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts that would otherwise have helped shrink one of the deficit’s key drivers. It all means Bessent’s objective of getting the fiscal deficit-to-GDP ratio below 4% — as he says, “something with a 3 in front of it” — by the time Trump leaves office in January 2029 looks even tougher. Before the latest news, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office last month was penciling in about 6% deficits on average for the coming decade. “The ruling on the tariffs along with the war both make a very bad fiscal trajectory even worse,” said Maya MacGuineas , who heads the nonprofit, nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “The ruling is going to lessen the revenue coming in for the federal government, and it’s not at all clear that replacement tariffs will be able to make that up. And clearly, the war is going to lead to significant new costs.” Bessent played down the budget impact of the Iran conflict in a March 22 interview with NBC’s Meet the Press , saying that “we have plenty of money to fund this war,” citing the wherewithal from $1 trill...
Oleksii Liskonih/iStock via Getty Images PXH Strategy Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF ( PXH ) was launched on 09/27/2007 and tracks the RAFI Fundamental Select Emerging Markets 350 Index. PXH has 357 holdings, a 12-month trailing yield of 4%, a 30-day SEC yield of 2.21%, and an expense ratio of 0.47%. Distributions are paid quarterly. As described in the prospectus by Invesco : The Underlying In...
Oleksii Liskonih/iStock via Getty Images PXH Strategy Invesco RAFI Emerging Markets ETF ( PXH ) was launched on 09/27/2007 and tracks the RAFI Fundamental Select Emerging Markets 350 Index. PXH has 357 holdings, a 12-month trailing yield of 4%, a 30-day SEC yield of 2.21%, and an expense ratio of 0.47%. Distributions are paid quarterly. As described in the prospectus by Invesco : The Underlying Index is designed to track the performance of approximately 350 commons stocks of the largest emerging markets companies from the constituents of the RAFI Global Equity Investable Universe. The RAFI methodology selects and weights stocks based on a size definition involving four fundamental metrics: book value plus intangibles, adjusted cash flow, adjusted sales, and dividends plus buybacks. This fundamental size offers an alternative to cap-weighted indexes and generally has a tilt to the value factor. The portfolio turnover rate was 27% in the most recent fiscal year. I will use as a benchmark the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF ( EEM ). PXH is part of a series of Invesco ETFs tracking RAFI indexes, also including: Invesco RAFI US 1000 ETF ( PRF ). Invesco RAFI US 1500 Small-Mid ETF ( PRFZ ). Invesco RAFI Strategic US ETF ( IUS ). Invesco RAFI Developed Mkts ex-US ETF ( PXF ). Invesco RAFI Developed Mkts ex-US SM ETF ( PDN ). Portfolio The heaviest country in the portfolio is China (36.2% of asset value), followed by Taiwan (22.2%), which points to significant geopolitical risk. Other countries are below 13%. Compared to EEM, PXH overweights China and Brazil and excludes South Korea (considered a developed country by S&P since 2001). PXH Top Countries (Chart: Author; Data: Invesco, iShares) The presence of Taiwan among emerging markets is debatable: it surpassed South Korea in GDP per capita in 2025 . Additionally, both countries are ahead of the E.U., the U.K., and Japan in GDP at purchasing power parity per capita . The fund has significant exposure in financials (26.7%...
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Christian Mueller-Glissmann, head of asset allocation research at Goldman Sachs, discusses concerns about the war in the Middle East and how this impacts investment strategy. There are "very few safe havens that can protect the portfolio," Mueller-Glissmann tells Bloomberg Television. "We are currently overweight cash." (Source: Bloomberg)
Christian Mueller-Glissmann, head of asset allocation research at Goldman Sachs, discusses concerns about the war in the Middle East and how this impacts investment strategy. There are "very few safe havens that can protect the portfolio," Mueller-Glissmann tells Bloomberg Television. "We are currently overweight cash." (Source: Bloomberg)