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  • New Resistance Training Guidelines Say Consistency Is Key for Stronger Results

    New Resistance Training Guidelines Say Consistency Is Key for Stronger Results

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    • You don’t need a perfect workout plan to benefit from strength training, according to new recommendations from the American College of Sports Medicine.
    • A large new review finds that at-home workouts or body weight exercises can be just as effective as complex resistance training routines.
    • Strength training can improve everyday function and long-term health when incorporated into a consistent fitness routine.

    When it comes to resistance training, doing some is better than doing none, and consistency is key, according to new recommendations from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).

    Resistance training, also known as weight or strength training, is linked to numerous health benefits for people of all ages, including improved muscle strength, better metabolic health, and reduced risk of falls in older adults.

    “Start now and start simply. You do not need a complicated or perfect programme to benefit. You just need to begin and do it consistently,” said senior author Stuart Phillips, PhD, Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair of the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University.

    “Many forms of resistance training can work, which means people have options. That flexibility matters. If someone believes there is only one ‘right’ way to train, the barrier to starting, or continuing, becomes much higher,” he told Healthline.

    The recommendations explicitly include home-based routines, body weight training, and the use of resistance bands as forms of resistance training that offer strength and fitness benefits. These approaches may also be more accessible and have a lower barrier to entry for some individuals.

    Perhaps surprisingly, some of the key variables people typically associate with resistance training appear to matter far less. Things like training frequency, exercise selection, and equipment type were all found to be less important than overall consistency and effort.

    The Position Stand is the first major update from the ACSM on resistance training since 2009.

    It’s an “overview of reviews,” meaning researchers pulled together findings from many prior studies to identify the most well-supported evidence. Specifically, they analyzed 137 systematic reviews, including data from more than 30,000 adult participants.

    “The message that this delivers is that you don’t need all these complex requirements for resistance training,” said Denice Ichinoe, DO, an assistant professor in the department of family and community medicine at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Ichinoe wasn’t involved in the research.

    “This should be broadly applicable to a larger population and should make it more accessible for the general public,” Ichinoe told Healthline.

    Participants were healthy adults ages 18 and older, most of whom were beginners or had limited resistance-training experience.

    The included studies looked at people who followed a resistance training program for at least 6 weeks, with some programs lasting up to a year. These programs were compared with either no exercise or alternative training approaches.

    The researchers also examined how specific training variables — like frequency, weight, and number of sets — affected outcomes such as strength, muscle growth (hypertrophy), and physical function, which refers to aspects of everyday movement such as walking and balance.

    Across the board, resistance training delivered clear benefits. Compared with doing no exercise, strength training significantly improved:

    • muscle strength
    • muscle size
    • power
    • endurance
    • balance
    • walking speed
    • overall physical function

    In other words, strength training supports both fitness and everyday function, like climbing stairs or getting up from a chair.

    The study also identified specific training patterns linked to better results.

    For building strength, the strongest gains were seen with heavier weights (about 80% or more of a person’s maximum), 2 to 3 sets per exercise, and at least two sessions per week.

    For muscle growth, total workload, known as volume, mattered most, while the exact weight used was less important.

    When it came to power (the ability to move quickly and forcefully), the best results came from moderate weights (30% to 70% of maximum) lifted explosively, often with lower overall volume.

    Notably, many commonly debated factors — such as training to failure, using machines versus free weights, or complex programming strategies — did not consistently change outcomes, suggesting that simple, consistent training can be just as effective as more complicated approaches.

    It’s important to note that the findings represent general recommendations for novice and recreational lifters.

    Elite athletes and more experienced lifters may still require more specialized or individualized training approaches.

    “With any type of elite athlete, their training is going to look different. But the general consensus here is that for the average adult, the best type of resistance training is one that you’ll stay consistent with,” Ichinoe said.

    Whether you are new to resistance training or an experienced weightlifter, the new recommendations offer important insight into your training routine.

    The message should be clear: what’s more important than optimizing your workout is finding the consistency to get out there and do it week after week.

    “Consistency usually starts with lowering friction. For most people, that means starting with a routine that is realistic, convenient, and not too ambitious: a couple of sessions a week, a few core movements, and a plan that fits their schedule and access to equipment,” Phillips said.

    Even for older adults or people who’ve never really considered weightlifting before, starting resistance training is important for overall health.

    “With any new activity, there’s always going to be a little bit of hesitance, maybe some fear and trepidation,” Ichinoe said. “I usually try to emphasize to older patients that with strength training, not only does it help build and maintain muscle mass and strength, it also helps with making your bones stronger.”

    Ichinoe shared some actionable tips on how to get started:

    • Think about your health and fitness goals. Are you training for general strength, or do you just want to feel more confident playing a round of pickleball?
    • Start slow: a consistent practice may start with just 10 minutes a day or one weightlifting session per week.
    • Get friends and family involved. It may be easier to find motivation when you have people to work out with.
    • Remember that anything is better than nothing.

  • States are suing the EPA for relinquishing its role as a greenhouse gas emissions regulator

    California, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York are leading a group of 20 other states in suing the US Environmental Protection Agency for renouncing its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, The New York Times reports. The lawsuit specifically argues that the EPA’s decision to rescind a 2009 study that determined greenhouse gases are dangerous to public health was illegal. The study, which is the source of what’s called the “Endangerment Finding,” was one of several justifications — along with things like the Clean Air Act — for the agency’s ability to regulate emissions.

    Rescinding the finding nullified the EPA’s evidence for things like emissions standards and a variety of other regulations that attempted to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases produced by the automotive, coal and oil industries. The Trump administration framed the rollback as a cost-saving measure, but it was also a major blow to the government’s ability to fight climate change. Greenhouse gases, which include things like carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, collect in the atmosphere and warm the planet, upsetting weather patterns and negatively impacting the environment. Determining the changes caused by greenhouse gases posed a risk to public health gave the EPA the authority to regulate them under its existing mandate to address air pollution. An authority it could have again, depending on the result of this litigation.

    Of course, winning a lawsuit isn’t necessary to restore the EPA’s role in fighting climate change. Congress could do that now by passing a new law. The legal route is just faster, and potentially riskier. The New York Times writes that this new lawsuit was filed in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and could ultimately be combined with an existing lawsuit from environmental groups. Depending on how the case fairs in the lower court, it may eventually be appealed to the US Supreme Court, who could decide on an even more restrictive interpretation of the EPA’s role.

    Under President Donald Trump, the EPA has already rolled back clean water rules and attempted to stifle research. The Trump administration has separately tried to undermine the authority of independent agencies like the EPA and FTC, something the Supreme Court has yet to determine to be illegal.

  • Kalshi doubles valuation to $22 billion with new $1 billion raise

    Kalshi doubles valuation to $22 billion with new $1 billion raise

    Kalshi has raised more than $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation in a new financing round led by Coatue Management, the Wall Street Journal reported.

    The deal roughly doubles the company’s valuation from its $11 billion December raise and shows investors are still willing to pay up for exposure to the prediction market boom.

    The timing matters because prediction markets are no longer a niche side bet in crypto and fintech. Data cited by Artemis shows the sector processed roughly $27 billion in January 2026 and $23.4 billion in February. FalconX, citing Artemis data, said prediction market volume climbed nearly fourfold to about $64 billion in 2025, with activity accelerating sharply into early 2026.

    Kalshi is emerging as one of the biggest winners in that trade. The Wall Street Journal reported in December that the company’s trading volumes had already moved above $1 billion a week around the time of its $11 billion round.

    The fundraising also lands as competitors and adjacent platforms race to capture the same category. Crypto exchange MEXC launched a zero-fee prediction market this week, pitching event contracts as a new trading vertical for its users. That follows a broader shift in crypto, where exchanges increasingly want prediction products alongside spot, futures, and options rather than leaving the category to standalone platforms.

    Polymarket remains the other major name in the space. Earlier reporting from October said the company was exploring a funding round at a valuation of $12 billion to $15 billion, after ICE, the parent of the New York Stock Exchange, agreed to invest up to $2 billion at an implied valuation of about $8 billion.

    More recently, the Wall Street Journal reported that Polymarket, like Kalshi, was exploring fundraising at roughly a $20 billion valuation. That means Kalshi’s new $22 billion valuation would still put it modestly ahead of Polymarket’s latest reported target, at least on paper.

    Disclosure: This article was edited by Estefano Gomez. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.

  • Alphabet no longer has a controlling stake in its life sciences business Verily

    Alphabet’s life sciences business Verily is restructuring and raising money as a new corporate entity. Verily announced that with its $300 million investment round, it will change from an LLC to a corporation and rename itself Verily Health Inc. As a result, Alphabet now has a minority stake rather than a controlling one in the business.

    Similar to every other tech business, this chapter for Verily will be focused on AI. “From research to care, our customers need solutions that bring the best of clinical and scientific rigor together with AI to deliver the next generation of healthcare – one that is as precise as it is personal,” Chairman and CEO Stephen Gillett said.

    Google Life Sciences was renamed Verily in 2015, around the same time as Google also rebranded to Alphabet. It has worked on a wide range of projects over the years, such as using eye scans to predict heart disease and an opioid addiction center. In 2025, it closed its medical device division, a move that may have signaled its shift toward AI.

  • Crypto Clarity Act inches toward Senate hearing as lawmakers weigh legislative trades

    The negotiation to get a crypto market structure bill through its next stages in the Senate have hovered over an almost-there status for weeks, and Republican lawmakers met on Thursday to figure out how to bridge the final gaps.

    The White House was expected to get some updated legislative language on Thursday, reflecting the ongoing work on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, according to people familiar with the situation. But the talks are still going, and even if the previously uncertain senators (such as Republican Thom Tillis) become satisfied with the bill’s stablecoin yield treatment, other distinct compromises (such as the approach to decentralized finance) also need to be secured before the Senate would be able to send the crypto industry’s top policy priority to President Donald Trump for a signature.

    The longstanding debate that had focused on stablecoin yield — on which bankers and crypto businesses have been divided over the structure of stablecoin rewards programs — is close to a finish, the people said, though lawmakers have been discussing what else the community bankers might be offered to get their support while resolving some of their other priorities. That could include some unrelated provisions tied to Congress’ recent housing legislation, according to reporting from Politico.

    Officials from Trump’s administration were said to be involved with the meeting of Republican members of the Senate Banking Committee, which is the second panel that needs to advance the bill before it would be repackaged into a final version that can get a vote of the overall Senate. Even if the effort advances from the committee by the end of April, as Senator Cynthia Lummis predicted this week, a couple of further hurdles may be out of lawmakers’ hands.

    Democrats involved in the talks have said they still want senior government officials and lawmakers from profiting off of personal crypto interests — most pointedly aimed at Trump. And they want Democrats appointed to the party’s vacant seats at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission before the agency adopts new crypto rules. Those are both points that could require concessions from the White House, and crypto insiders are expecting those controversial points to be the last matters settled once the lawmakers are working on a final bill.

    On the yield issue, Lummis has said that stablecoin rewards programs that steer clear of bank-line language on savings and interest may survive the compromise, insisting they’re more akin to credit-card rewards than interest from bank-account deposits.

    Lummis said Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, whose opposition to a previous draft bill helped derail an earlier effort to get to a Senate hearing, has been more flexible in recent talks. The company didn’t immediately respond Thursday to a request for comment on its position.

    As Congress works, the Securities and Exchange Commission spent much of the week issuing and discussing new crypto policy points, including a first-ever taxonomy that sets out regulatory definitions for U.S. crypto assets. In a CoinDesk op-ed on Thursday, Chairman Paul Atkins and the two Republican commissioners suggested they’re eager to have a new law back up the policy they’re working on.

    “Only Congress can rewrite the law, and we stand ready to work with [Commodity Futures Trading Commission] Chairman Michael Selig to implement the CLARITY Act,” they wrote. “In the meantime, we are providing the responsible regulatory approach that markets demand.”

  • Maryland woman wins second $50,000 lottery prize in three months

    Maryland woman wins second $50,000 lottery prize in three months

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    Maryland woman wins second $50,000 lottery prize in three months

    Feb. 19 (UPI) — A Maryland woman credited her intuition with earning her a second $50,000 Bonus Match 5 lottery prize in the space of just three months.

  • In ‘The Oligarch and the Art Dealer,’ ‘Succession’ Meets 007 for the Epstein Files Age

    In ‘The Oligarch and the Art Dealer,’ ‘Succession’ Meets 007 for the Epstein Files Age

    Money, power, art, fraud allegations and a business partnership, maybe even a friendship, gone awry make for an explosive cocktail in The Oligarch and the Art Dealer. The story that has all sorts of Shakespearean flavors is a drama, but not a play. What may sound like a James Bond film isn’t served up shaken or stirred. And yes, it has elements of Succession but isn’t a fictional series. It is a three-episode documentary series. All three hours are screening at the ongoing CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, after the first episode was shown at Sundance. And it makes the series the only one featured at the fest, which has been very selective about the shows it features in its lineup.

    Created by producer Christoph Jörg and director Andreas Dalsgaard, who co-wrote the series with Kevin Lincoln and previously collaborated on the feature The Lost Leonardo, the series tells the story of one of the 21st century’s most sensational art scandals that turned into a 10-year war over billions. The CPH:DOX website highlights its “cast of colorful characters that one could hardly invent even in the wildest imagination.”

    The protagonists move in a secretive world of the super-rich that is typically shielded from the public’s view. The Russian oligarch is Dmitry Rybolovlev. The Swiss art dealer is Yves Bouvier.
     
    Initially a discreet adviser, Bouvier becomes “a global power broker and manager of Rybolovlev’s investments in one of the world’s most closed and enigmatic markets,” highlights a synopsis. Said market is “the part of the art world where the sums are staggering and the value of artworks is something agreed upon by a narrow elite of connoisseurs and ultra-rich tycoons.”
     
    But eventually, the gloves come off. “When the friendship between Bouvier and Rybolovlev suddenly explodes, a web of lies is revealed,” reads the synopsis. “The question is: who is really in the right?”

    Miriam Norgaard is also a producer on The Oligarch and the Art Dealer, with co-producers Ines Bensalem, Philippe Coeytaux, Lea Fels, Lucy Sexton and Isidoor Roebers. The series is produced by Dalsgaard’s Elk Film and Jörg’s Vestigo Films in co-production with Scenery, Akka Films and Words + Pictures.

    On the sidelines of the 23rd edition of CPH:DOX, which runs through Sunday, the two creators tell THR that they are happy to leave it to viewers to make up their minds, but wanted to invite them to take a peek behind the curtains of a world that most of us will never experience.

    “We wanted to understand how this secretive world that these two people live in works,” Jörg tells THR. ”They had the same goal. But then what always happens in this kind of relationship is that greed shows up, ego shows up, human behavior shows up, and then things go wrong and explode.”

    ‘The Oligarch and the Art Dealer’

    Courtesy of Elk Film

    Dalsgaard highlights the Hollywood feel of the whole affair. “What partly drew me to this is that we are in a universe that resembles what we see in series like Succession or Billions,” he tells THR. “It’s almost like a James Bond universe, or Tenet. We see that stuff in fiction, but we never see it in a documentary. That’s because it’s so secretive and it’s so hard to get access. No one in this world wants to talk, because that makes you vulnerable, and only because these two guys went to war and fought it out in courts all over the world, we as a public can access what actually went on inside.”

    Indeed, the team behind The Oligarch and the Art Dealer had thousands of documents to explore, including emails.

    Dalsgaard compares the impact of the materials to “the shock that’s happening right now around the world with the release of the Epstein files,” explaining: “Suddenly we get an insight into all these networks and all the ways that these people are dealing with each other and using each other.”

    One of the many insights of the series is on private auctions, “where an auction house puts these billionaires together, and then they are sitting there and fighting over a Klimt or whatever,” explains Jörg.

    The series also shows a freeport in Geneva that has been called the largest art museum that you will never get into. “If you remember the end shot in Indiana Jones, where The Ark of the Covenant is put in a box and moved into this endless storage space, that’s pretty much what a freeport is,” explains Dalsgaard.

    Given all the intrigue and power players involved, the duo behind the series emphasizes how much careful work, fact-checking and legal reviews the work on the project involved.

    ‘The Oligarch and the Art Dealer’

    Courtesy of Elk Film

    With all the makings of a Hollywood drama, who will show The Oligarch and the Art Dealer in the U.S.? The creators tell THR that no deal is in place – yet.

    Asked about the series’ clear global appeal, Jörg offers: “It has some of those [ingredients] that also make Shakespeare universal. He wrote stories about kings and dukes and princes, and oftentimes they end up getting in trouble due to the faults that they have as human beings – their greed, their ego, their jealousy. And that ends up eating them from the inside. I think we see something very similar in this story.”

    Concludes Dalsgaard: “This story is, of course, about art. But it’s really a story about how money and power wield their influence in the world, which is a timely [theme]. And art plays a big role in that. What I’m personally really fascinated by here is what makes this unique: There’s almost no other situation where we’ve ever had this kind of insight into the circles of money and power.”

  • Nexstar Closes $6.2 Billion Tegna Merger, Creating Local TV Giant

    Nexstar Closes $6.2 Billion Tegna Merger, Creating Local TV Giant

    The local TV giant Nexstar closed its $6.2 billion takeover of rival Tegna on Thursday, creating a TV station behemoth after the Department of Justice and FCC signed off on the mega-deal.

    “This transaction is essential to sustaining strong local journalism in the communities we serve,” Nexstar founder and CEO Perry Sook said in a statement. “By bringing these two outstanding companies together, Nexstar will be a stronger, more dynamic enterprise — better positioned to deliver exceptional journalism and local programming with enhanced assets, capabilities, and talent. We are grateful to President Trump, Chairman Carr, and the DOJ for recognizing the dynamic forces shaping the media landscape and enabling this transaction to move forward.”

    The deal is being challenged by eight states, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, and had been opposed by a variety of companies and groups: From DirecTV and Newsmax to the Communications Workers of America.

    Still, with federal approval, the deal was allowed to close, and now Nexstar will be able to take advantage of the combined scale.

    Under federal law, the TV station ownership cap is limited to 39 percent of homes per company. The combined company will now reach roughly 80 percent of American homes, by owning 265 TV stations across 44 states and Washington, D.C.

    “The FCC has been focused on empowering broadcast TV stations to serve their local communities, consistent with their public interest obligations,” FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said in a statement. “Today’s agency decision does exactly that as both the record and Nexstar’s enforceable commitments demonstrate. 

    “For too long, the FCC stood by while newspapers closed by the dozen in communities all across the country,” he added. “Those trusted sources of local news and information shuttered while the FCC dithered.  If you care about local news, you should care about the future of local broadcast TV stations.  Often, they are the ones in a market doing the gumshoe reporting that citizens value and need. By approving this transaction, which allows Nexstar to own less than 15% of television stations, the FCC acts mindful of the media marketplace that exits today—not the one from decades past—and the agency ensures that these broadcasters have the resources to continue investing in their local news operations.”

    More to come.

  • BlackRock Staked Ethereum Fund Tops $250 Million in Its First Week

    BlackRock Staked Ethereum Fund Tops $250 Million in Its First Week

    In brief

    • BlackRock’s ETHB has reached $254 million in AUM, with $146 million flowing in since its March 12 debut.
    • The fund stakes 70–95% of its ETH and passes 82% of staking rewards to investors through monthly payments.
    • ETHB enters a market where Grayscale and REX-Osprey already offer staked Ethereum products.

    BlackRock’s iShares Staked Ethereum Trust has reached $254 million worth of assets under management after launching a week ago. That means investors have bought $146 million worth of shares since the fund debuted, on top of more than $100 million seeded in the fund.

    BlackRock launched the iShares Staked Ethereum Trust (ETHB) on Nasdaq on March 12, with the seed capital coming from BlackRock Financial Management, an affiliate of iShares. The new fund stakes between 70–95% of its ETH holdings and passes 82% of resulting rewards to investors through monthly payments, with the remaining 18% split among the trust, custodians, and staking service providers.

    The fund’s validators include Figment, Galaxy Blockchain Infrastructure, and Attestant. ETHB charges a 0.25% sponsor fee, discounted to 0.12% for its first year on up to $2.5 billion in assets. It entered a market where Grayscale and REX-Osprey had already launched competing staked Ethereum products.

    Ethereum did have a bullish rally above $2,300 earlier this week, but but has since fallen alongside Bitcoin and the rest of the market. At the time of writing, ETH was changing hands for $2,126 after having dropped 4% in the past day.

    The Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF added staking in October 2025 and renamed the fund to reflect its new staking activity in January. The fund saw mixed results its first week as a staking ETF, seeing a net outflow of $32.5 million. But Grayscale had the misfortune of adding staking to its ETF the same week that a Bitcoin flash crash triggered a $19 billion leverage wipeout last October, dragging down the rest of the crypto market.

    Meanwhile, the Grayscale Ethereum Staking Mini ETF was formed in April 2024, although it didn’t initially launch with staking. That wasn’t added until October 6, 2025, the same week the ETHE fund added staking.

    The BlackRock offering is different from both the Grayscale ETH funds because it was conceived and launched with staking, rather than adding the feature later.

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  • ETF Giant Challenges Tether and Paxos With Framework for Tokenized Gold

    ETF Giant Challenges Tether and Paxos With Framework for Tokenized Gold

    In brief

    • The World Gold Council, which helped establish the first gold-backed ETF in the U.S., is working on a service to standardize tokenized gold.
    • The nonprofit association views the process of managing gold reserves as a barrier to entry for issuers interested in establishing gold-backed tokens.
    • So far, the market for tokenized gold has coalesced around crypto-native firms that have established their own custody arrangements and issuance pipelines.

    Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin offer individuals complete control over their funds, but the same can’t be said for assets locked in vaults, according to the World Gold Council.

    On Thursday, the trade association formed and funded by the world’s leading gold mining companies proposed a framework for addressing complexities tied to tokenized gold, with the aim of establishing standards for digital assets backed by the precious metal.

    In a white paper co-authored by Boston Consulting Group, the nonprofit established the concept of “Gold as a Service,” a platform designed to allow companies creating gold-backed tokens to tap into a shared network for managing physical reserves.

    The service seeks to bolster confidence in tokenized gold through features like continuous audits, while establishing a level of fungibility across products. As of now, companies like Paxos and Tether, which have dominated the market for gold-backed tokens for years, have established their own custody arrangements and issuance pipelines from the ground up.

    In an interview with Decrypt, the World Gold Council’s Global Head of Market Structure and Innovation, Mike Oswin, compared the council’s latest initiative to Intel’s iconic stickers. Commonly found on Windows-based laptops, they enable consumers to see that the chipmaker’s processors were embedded in a product at a glance, he noted.

    “If you see that little symbol, you know that it’s Intel inside,” he said. “You’re getting the best processor, so you know you’re walking out with what you need.”

    For the World Gold Council, tokenization also represents an ability to extend its influence into an emerging market after establishing SPDR Gold Shares in 2004. The first U.S.-listed exchange-traded fund to be backed by physical gold currently has a market cap of $126 billion.

    Meanwhile, Tether Gold and PAX Gold have grown to a combined market cap of $4.9 billion since they both debuted five years ago, according to CoinGecko. 

    Paxos parks reserves for its gold-backed token in London, using vaults that are managed by security services provider Brink’s. Similarly, Tether houses tons of gold for its token in a Swiss-based vault, which once operated as a Cold War-era nuclear bunker.

    Research conducted by the World Gold Council has indicated that investors who self-custody their digital assets often prefer holding onto the precious metal themselves, Oswin added. That’s partly because of the bespoke custody arrangements that need to be created.

    “At the end of the day, [gold] is a physical asset that comes in different sizes, shapes, forms, locations,” he said. “It’s always been an inhibitor to these kinds of initiatives.” 

    Unlike stablecoins, which are often backed by cash and U.S. Treasuries, gold doesn’t generate income when it’s tucked away behind closed doors. Rather, there are costs associated with safeguarding the precious metal that don’t exist for other types of real-world assets.

    Oswin said the council’s service could address that barrier to entry for other firms, which is in line with the World Gold Council’s goal of promoting the precious metal broadly.

    “Instead of a handful of successful products, this will potentially lead to hundreds of products that can now come to market,” he said. “The business case stands up much better because of the way they can access the physical gold in a simplified, more cost-effective way.”

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