July 23, 2026

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Wealth Management

Hightower CEO on AI, Wealthtech and Advisor Growth

Larry Restieri, CEO of Hightower Advisors, discusses the firm’s continued investment in its middle-office platform, Hightower One, designed to streamline onboarding and investment management, enabling advisors to focus on client relationships.  Restieri also addresses industry trends in AI and, more broadly, wealth technology, emphasizing how fintech tools can support advisors in delivering client services without

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Tax

King Charles’s tax bill: what did we learn, and what is still in the dark? | King Charles III

King Charles has become Britain’s first monarch in modern times to reveal how much tax he pays on his private income: £24.6m over the last two years. It’s a move celebrated by some as heralding an era of greater transparency from the monarchy. But just how open has it been? Why has the king published

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Energy

FuelCell Energy Drops 10%, Bloom Energy Falls 7% in a Profit-Taking Reversal as Plug Power Edges Up

© audioundwerbung / iStock via Getty Images Shares of FuelCell Energy (NASDAQ:FCEL) are down 10% in Thursday afternoon trading, leading a profit-taking reversal across some fuel cell names. The slide unwinds a chunk of yesterday’s 14% pop tied to FuelCell Energy’s strategic agreement with Fit Energy. Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) stock is off 7%, last seen

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Stock Brokers

Why Palantir stock is trading near 52 week low?

Shares of Palantir Technologies extended their recent slide on Thursday, falling for a seventh consecutive trading session and putting the stock on track for its lowest close in more than a year. Palantir shares dropped 5.8% to $106.88 during trading. The stock hit its 52 week low during the session. If losses hold, the stock

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Energy

Britain paying 17 times more to import energy from Europe during heatwave

Britain has been hit with record June temperatures of 36.4C, with the Met Office issuing a red warning for extreme heat for three consecutive days lasting until Friday. Noémie Baud, from Montel, an energy consultancy, said Neso appeared to have underestimated the demand increase caused by the heatwave by up to three gigawatts – equivalent

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Technology

Agentic-Native Platforms Are Creating A New Technology Business Model

Agentic-native Platforms are Creating a New Technology Business Model getty For decades, the enterprise technology industry operated on a simple principle: software companies built products, and services firms helped enterprises implement, customize, and operate them. The relationship was highly complementary, but the businesses themselves remained largely separate. Today, however, the rise of agentic AI platforms

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Technology

June: Bristol-linked company raises £23million to advance cancer treatment technology | News and features

A pioneering fusion technology company with strong links to the University of Bristol has secured £23million in new investment to accelerate the development of breakthrough technology that could transform global cancer diagnosis and treatment. Astral Systems, founded in 2021 by University of Bristol Research Associate Dr Tom Wallace-Smith and chief executive Talmon Firestone, has closed

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Energy

Rising energy and materials prices hit building costs – The Irish Times

Rising energy and materials prices are driving up building costs as the Republic grapples with housing and infrastructure challenges, says a new report. Construction growth could slip to 1.7 per cent this year from 11.8 per cent in 2025, according to multinational quantity surveyors’ firm Linesight. New European Union environmental regulations and the impact of

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Fund

Ares Management flagship private credit fund slammed with withdrawal requests

Thursday 25 June 2026 4:08 pm Ares has been hit with a surge in redemption requests Ares Management was plagued by investors attempting to pull out over $1.5bn from one its flagship private credit funds in the second financial quarter, as wealthy individuals continue to flee the asset class. The firm’s Ares Strategic Income fund,

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Wealth Management

Samsung’s Health Frontier: AI, Galaxy Ring 2 And Continuous Health Monitoring

Samsung Galaxy Ring in gold finish. David Phelan Prevention, it’s said, is better than cure, so it seems curious that the medical world doesn’t prioritize it more. The routine for healthcare is familiar: visits to your doctor a few times a year for a handful of tests, then nothing until next time. But Dr Hon

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