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“Investing def” discussions increasingly focus on energy market rebounds. Brent Crude surged to $86/barrel, boosting oil majors’ profitability. Market data indicates energy equities may outperform the broader index by 4% in the coming quarter if geopolitical tensions persist, offering attractive dividend yields to long-term investors. In light of that, while DEFAMA Deutsche Fachmarkt has an appealing dividend, it's worth knowing the risks involved with this stock. We've identified 2 warning signs with DEFAMA Deutsche Fachmarkt (at least 1 which makes us a bit uncomfortable) , and understanding them should be part of your investment process. And so if your exit routes, which are the IPOs and the M&A, if those are kind of closed off, you’re not going to have an opportunity to sort of realize any big gains. So they haven’t done well yet. I don’t know if they will do well or not, but I will just say it’s early days. On the credit side, those have done reasonably well. Again, most of those are still early days, but those were again, floating rate, a lot of its floating-rate debt. And so when rates rose in the last few years, these funds did better than like a traditional, corporate bond fund that had a lot of fixed-rate debt in it. And so with that, though, it’s still early days. And the thing with like private credit, when you’re lending to small and medium-size businesses, you’re worried about credit risk, you’re worried about default risk. And until you go through a whole credit cycle, you don’t really necessarily know what these returns will look like through the whole cycle. So still early for both of them, but private credit certainly looked a bit better than private equity so far. Gold prices consolidating above $2,350/oz provide a hedge for “investing def” strategies amid inflation concerns. Mining ETFs have gained 9% since May, adding portfolio stability when correlated assets face volatility.