Caspar Lee says young people are unlikely to make money on YouTube

Caspar Lee says young people are unlikely to make money on YouTube

Lee co-founded a venture capital firm Creator Ventures with his cousin Sasha Kaletsky in 2022. Caspar Lee Caspar Lee advised young people who want to be content creators to do YouTube for fun rather than focusing on making money because the chances of financial success are low. The 30-year-old was a successful British-South African YouTuber … Read more

DeepL, AI rival to Google Translate, hits $2 billion valuation

DeepL, AI rival to Google Translate, hits  billion valuation

DeepL CEO Jaroslaw “Jarek” Kutylowski. DeepL PARIS — DeepL, an artificial intelligence-powered translation platform, said Wednesday that it has raised $300 million in fresh funding, in a sign investors are still willing to invest major sums into the AI space.  The deal, led by venture capital firm Index Ventures, boosts DeepL’s valuation to $2 billion. … Read more

Mega-cap tech stocks dominate many ESG funds. Here’s why

Mega-cap tech stocks dominate many ESG funds. Here’s why

The top holdings of many ESG funds may be surprisingly familiar. While these strategies consider a company’s environmental, social and governance factors, these funds still aim to invest in top performers across industry groups, DWS Group’s Arne Noack explained. “The idea isn’t to be super concentrated and only select a handful of stocks that do … Read more

Imposter scams are top fraud of 2023, FTC says. How to protect yourself

Imposter scams are top fraud of 2023, FTC says. How to protect yourself

Vasily Pindyurin | fStop | Getty Images Consumers lost a record $10 billion to fraud in 2023, and imposter scams were the most prevalent swindle, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Nearly 854,000 people filed complaints to the FTC about imposter scams in 2023. This represents 33% of the total consumer fraud reports filed to … Read more

Nvidia rally fueling FOMO in overall market: Evercore’s Julian Emanuel

Nvidia rally fueling FOMO in overall market: Evercore’s Julian Emanuel

Evercore ISI’s Julian Emanuel thinks Nvidia’s monster rally is fueling a fear of missing out in the market. He finds clients, including many who traded through the dot-com boom and subsequent collapse, are more worried about being underinvested than overexposed right now. “That’s the first time that’s happened since 2021 for us,” the firm’s senior … Read more

Too exposed to Big Tech? These ETFs may help broaden out your risk

Too exposed to Big Tech? These ETFs may help broaden out your risk

Big Tech’s market dominance may push more investors to equal-weight exchange-traded funds, according to VettaFi’s Todd Rosenbluth. “Investors are getting nervous that too much money is concentrated in a handful of stocks within the broader ETFs that they have available that [are] tied to the S&P 500 or even the Nasdaq 100,” the firm’s head … Read more