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☆ "We had no choice": Two best friends bought and renovated a crumbling Victorian house together because it's nearly impossible to buy one alone
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Lauren Crosmedlicott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Olamide Soyemi and Cullen FarleighThey were surprised in September 2019 to hear from a specialist mortgage advisor that they could secure a £500,000 mortgage. "When we started freelancing as ad creatives, we had a dream to transition into making our own content," Soyemi said. Olamide Soyemi and Cullen FarleighA few weeks later, a bit of the kitchen floor felt spongy. "It's the nightmare thing to have in your house," Farleigh said. Olamide Soyemi and Cullen Farleigh"This house has become more than just a possible asset — more than just a house," Soyemi said.

Persons: —, Olamide Soyemi, Cullen Farleigh, Cullen Farleigh Soyemi, Farleigh, Soyemi, Dad Poor, Elizabeth, lockdowns, Cullen, They're, dabble, It's Organizations: Service, Farleigh Locations: London, Soyemi, Farleigh, Central London, East London, Victoria

☆ Influencers share how to make money with affiliate marketing and the networks they use
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Sydney Bradley | Nathan Mcalone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Those links are often affiliate marketing links that let creators earn a commission on sales. We spoke with creators about how much money they earn from influencer affiliate marketing. What is influencer affiliate marketing? Influencers often use affiliate marketing as a way to earn income outside of sponsored posts or ad revenue on videos. Here are 9 top platforms influencers used to make money from affiliate linksThere is often no minimum follower count needed to make money from affiliate marketing.

Persons: Influencers, influencers, influencer Kara Harms, it's, Tori Dunlap Organizations: what's, Social

☆ 4 lucrative side hustles for summer 2023—one pays up to $80 per hour
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

If you're curious to start a side hustle yourself, summer could be a good time to dive in. Be a summer school assistantPost pandemic, many kids are far behind in school. As such, more parents may elect to send their kids to summer school than usual. She calls it a "summer school assistant." The summer school assistant would pick kids up from summer school, help them with their homework and tutor them in any particular subject if needed.

Persons: Angelique Rewers, That's, Airbnb, –, Daniella Flores, Flores, Rewers Organizations: Facebook, Rover Locations: Airbnb, San Diego, Portland , Maine, Dallas , Texas, Fort Lauderdale , Florida, New York

☆ At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Joshua Barone | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Meredith Monk stepped out onto a circular stage, her stride paced yet fluid. She didn’t sing at first, but when she did, she let out a clear, clean soprano sound. This is Meredith Monk at 80 — performing in the staged premiere of her latest work, “Indra’s Net,” at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam on Friday and Saturday — though it could describe her at pretty much any moment in her career, whose trajectory resembles a constellation more than a straightforward path. The first staged performances of “Indra’s Net,” an evening-length work about interconnectedness and interdependence, were delayed by the pandemic. And this fall, the retrospective exhibition “Meredith Monk: Calling” will open at the Haus der Kunst in Munich.

Persons: Meredith Monk, doesn’t, Monk, “ Organizations: Holland Festival, “, Kunst Locations: Amsterdam, ”, Munich

☆ How influencers make money from affiliate marketing and the networks they use
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Sydney Bradley | Nathan Mcalone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Persons: Influencers, influencers, influencer Kara Harms, it's, Tori Dunlap Organizations: what's, Social

☆ Goldman Sachs: Cash in on the $7 trillion AI explosion by making these 15 trades now
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Artificial intelligence is rapidly gaining momentum this year as it gets more advanced. Here are 15 buy-rated stocks from Goldman Sachs that investors can get exposure to now. Once a niche technology, artificial intelligence (AI) has moved firmly into the mainstream in 2023 and become too big to ignore, according to Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs15 AI stocks to add exposure to nowInvestors who are interested in profiting from the AI wave should consider the 15 stocks that were highlighted in Phani's note that have a buy rating from Goldman Sachs and are either directly advancing AI or are indirectly enabling it. Below are the 15 stocks tied to AI that Goldman Sachs is bullish on right now.

Persons: Goldman Sachs, Phani Organizations: Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Companies, Investors

☆ A hedge fund manager shares the 7 GPT-4 prompts he used to filter top stocks and the 6 key takeaways he learned from his AI experiments
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

He found a series of prompts that allows GPT-4 to respond with good stock market insight. The crossroad where technology meets the stock market isn't new territory for Patel. It responded with seven key variables that did indeed impact 2022's broad stock market performance. It picked three of the same stocks Patel already held: Microsoft, Visa, and Apple. Otherwise, the majority of them would have been able to navigate 2022's stock market better.

☆ The editor of an online erotica site shares 3 tips to make your romance writing immediately hotter
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Julia Pugachevsky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Carly Pifer, founder of online erotica site Aurore, edits erotica stories professionally. It was one of the reasons she started Aurore, an online erotica community where women and LGBTQ+ writers can submit confessional-style true stories. "I want something slow, meandering, I want something that's like a tease…you're not going get straight to sex," Pifer told Insider. "I don't really care what color lipstick you're wearing and like how often as women do we really wear red lips?" Building up to sex is one of the most important parts of erotica, according to Pifer — and of intimacy itself.

☆ Buffet breaks out of Japan’s value trap
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

HONG KONG, April 12 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Berkshire Hathaway (BRKa.N) has upped its stake in iconic Japanese trading houses, according to an interview boss Warren Buffett gave the Nikkei newspaper on Tuesday. Worries that the nonagenarian was walking into Japan’s infamous “value trap” now look overwrought. The rise in global interest rates and the popping of the tech bubble have pushed funds back into the boring nuts and bolts companies Buffett loves. Given that the trading houses are themselves Berkshire-like investors, Buffett says he is open to doing deals with them, and investing more in Japan. The hedge funds and activist investors who have been banging their heads against Japan Inc might watch what Buffett does next.

☆ 3 Must-Know Truths to Remain a Profitable Stock Trader
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Jason Shapiro trades the opposite side of overcrowded positions. "I believe that going against mass participation of the crowd is what's going to give you good risk-reward trades," Shapiro said. The disciplined traderThe biggest tip Shapiro wants new traders to understand is that the stock market isn't an ATM machine. There are already thousands of analysts and millions of traders working off the same information. There are also trades that may have worked at one point that eventually stop working, he noted.

☆ I made nearly $5,000 in 30 days from writing online. Here's my best advice for others who want to make money.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Dayana Sabatin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Sabatin said writing as many posts as possible gives you the best chance at making more money. If you'd asked me if I'd be making money from writing my thoughts and opinions online, I would've laughed in your face. "Write or don't eat"I kept a sticky note on my computer with the words "write or don't eat" written on it. Trust me, I thought it was at first too, but the two cents I made my first month of writing online humbled me. It took me nearly two years to make $5,000, and that was from hustling daily and having multiple writing income streams.

☆ Layoffs are a nail in the coffin for whatever the metaverse is
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Last week saw both Apple and Microsoft pause on speculative projects involving augmented reality and virtual reality, per reports. Apple has postponed its much-rumored augmented reality glasses because of technical challenges, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported. The metaverse was already a loose concept, a catch-all term for a vague theory that augmented reality and virtual reality is the future of computing, despite little evidence to back this up. Microsoft, reasonably early to the market with its HoloLens headset, has run into issues with one of its biggest customers: the US military. It's possible augmented reality and virtual reality devices do become popular among certain types of consumer, such as enthusiasts or gamers.

☆ Blackstone closes PE secondary funds at record $25 billion
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Jan 18 (Reuters) - Blackstone Inc (BX.N) raised a record $25 billion for two funds that dabble in secondaries and co-investments, the asset manager said on Wednesday. Strategic Partners IX raised $22.2 billion, the world's largest secondaries fundraise ever, while Strategic Partners GP Solutions raised $2.7 billion. Blackstone Strategic Partners is its illiquid fund investing arm that provides a range of liquidity solutions to both investors and private equity sponsors. Founded in 2000, Blackstone Strategic Partners had $67 billion of assets under management as of Sept. 30 last year. New York-based Blackstone's unlisted real estate income trust also secured a $4 billion investment from the University of California earlier this month.

"It's not just me and my children, future generations from our community in Jammu and Kashmir will vote for the BJP." A BJP victory in the disputed region could consolidate India's claim over the territory on the global stage. "We have taken a pledge to cross 50-plus seats to form the next government with a thumping majority," the BJP's president for Jammu and Kashmir, Ravinder Raina, told Reuters. Jammu has about 5.3 million inhabitants, 62% of whom are Hindu while Kashmir Valley has 6.7 million, 97% of them Muslim, according to a 2011 census. Previously unreported official records show just over 5.3 million certificates had been issued as of September.

☆ A 28-year-old who owns 42 cash-flowing properties explains how he started investing in real estate without any cash, and shares his top 6 tips for beginners
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Thomas Harr began investing in real estate after trying to fix and flip and wholesale. Today, Harr owns 42 properties, many of which are multi-family homes that have numerous rental units within them. And, throwing the nicest stuff in these houses that sometimes they don't need," Harr said. And that's where a lot of people get this real estate investing game a little bit wrong. As for the past year's rising interest rate, Harr says there's never going to be a perfect time to buy real estate.

☆ Should you hide your side hustle from your employer? Here's what to consider
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

So is your hustle something you should disclose to your full-time employer? Side hustle expert Daniella Flores, who uses they/them pronouns, has seen bosses react in multiple ways. At first, their employer was fine with the hustle, but eventually, they gave Flores an ultimatum, asking them, "Would you rather paint or would you rather code?" Whatever you do, though, Flores says, remember not to use company equipment or company time for your hustle. Make sure "you're doing it on your own laptop, on your own time, not onsite at work," says Flores.

☆ U.K. Pensions Dabble in Stock Derivatives After Bond Blowup
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Julie Steinberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

LONDON—Derivatives almost blew up the British bond market. In response, some U.K. pension funds are adding more of them to their stock portfolios. The crisis fueled by LDI, or liability-driven investment strategies, has forced pensions to set aside more cash to meet higher collateral requirements for bond positions. To adjust, some pensions are freeing up cash from their equity holdings, by switching some investments into derivatives such as futures and total-return swaps.

☆ 'The English' and 'Mammals' review: Emily Blunt and James Corden can't lead two Amazon series out of the woods
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Both run six episodes, with “The English” structured as a limited series, and “Mammals” paving the way for future seasons, while incorporating too many twists in its dramedy format to discuss much about what happens. James Corden and Melia Kreiling in Amazon's dark comedy "Mammals." While both series should help bring attention to Amazon Prime, neither completely works. That said, there’s probably not enough strictly on their respective merits to lead either of these Amazon shows through the jungle and out of the woods. “Mammals” and “The English” premiere November 11 on Amazon Prime.

☆ I worked for Elon Musk in the early days of SpaceX. Twitter execs need to be ready to work with 2 different people — good Elon and bad Elon.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Kiera Fields | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

He was impressed by Elon Musk's vision but he would yell and once called Cantrell to work at 3 a.m.Cantrell gives Twitter employees his advice on their new boss. Elon wanted to buy Russian rockets because they were cheaper than US rockets and had been told I was the guy to ask because I'd worked with the Russians. Working with Elon was like working with two different people: the good Elon and the bad Elon, and you never knew which you were going to getThe good Elon is very funny and charming. There are people at Twitter who are going to need to decide whether they are 100% aligned with Musk's mission for it. That's the good Elon.

☆ I decorate people's homes for Halloween. I started out of the trunk of my car and almost quit from the stress — but now I have my own staff and big commercial clients.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Jamie Killin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Kelly Fitzsimmons is the owner of Light Up Your Holidays, a holiday decorating service in Chicago. We decorate the exteriors of homes for Christmas and other holidays, like Halloween, which is becoming increasingly popular in our business. He told me about how he'd get super busy in September and October because of holiday decorating. Now, about 20% of my clients decorate for Halloween. I urge people to relinquish the competitive spirit around holiday decorating.

☆ Twitter employees are leaving for tech rivals ahead of Elon Musk's planned takeover
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Avery Hartmans | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Today, we're looking at a major side-effect of the drama surrounding Elon Musk's Twitter takeover: the employee exodus. Twitter is experiencing an employee exodus amid the Elon Musk deal. Meta and Google snap up Twitter employees. Amid the months-long saga between Twitter and Elon Musk, employees have been leaving in droves. Elon Musk pledges to close Twitter deal on time.

☆ ‘The Curse of Bridge Hollow’ Review: Infused With Spooky Spice
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

And the intent of this comedy-thriller is showing how wrong he can be. For such a committed Halloween skeptic, Howard clearly hasn’t scoped out Bridge Hollow very well. It’s a place that loses its otherwise decorous mind as it approaches Oct. 31. She’s tired of Howard, the intellectual dictator, pushing her toward science all the time. She prefers to dabble in the supernatural, which means she’s delighted to meet up with members of the Bridge Hollow Paranormal Society—all three of them—who in turn are delighted to meet the new resident of the old Hawthorne House.

☆ Investors are fleeing growth names. But one market veteran loves them – and reveals his top picks
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Zavier Ong | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The market has turned decidedly bearish — as can be seen in a lack of activity among long-only hedge funds, said Wall Street veteran Farzin Azarm. Instead, he's seeing a lot of short selling in the market, particularly in the growth sector. Three stocks he loves Azarm could well be one of the few bulls in an otherwise bearish market right now. Unsurprisingly, he's a fan of growth names. If there's going to be a risk to the upside, it's going to be those names," he said.

☆ As Treasury yields spike, short-duration ETFs are beating the market and raking in cash
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Jesse Pound | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF ha s pulled in more than $3.5 billion of new money this year. AllianceBernstein launched its first ETFs last Wednesday, including the AB Ultra Short Income ETF , a fund that invests in debt with less than one year to maturity. An inverted yield curve refers to short-term yields that are higher than longer-dated yields. The combination of quickly rising interest rates and an inverted yield curve creates a couple of benefits for short-duration funds. AllianceBernstein's municipal ETF has a management fee of 0.27%, while the fee on the ultra short income fund stands at 0.25%.

☆ ECB offers flimsy shield against Spain’s bank levy
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Its mandate as regulator is to ensure the European banking system is stable, rather than dabble in local matters. That means lenders would have to successfully argue that their capital buffers are under threat by a mere 3 billion euro levy that will be spread out across the sector. Up until now, lenders like Santander have been at pains to convince investors that they have ample capital to withstand a downturn. (By Aimee Donnellan)Follow @Breakingviews on TwitterRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register(The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. They do not reflect the views of Reuters News, which, under the Trust Principles, is committed to integrity, independence, and freedom from bias.

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