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Banks globally will likely rack up further losses on office property loans as a bruising crash in valuations leads to more defaults, credit rating agency Morningstar DBRS said on Wednesday. Higher borrowing costs and a sharp fall in demand for office space as more people work from home has punished commercial landlords, increasing the risk of their bank loans going unpaid. Several lenders including Wells Fargo and JPMorgan in the United States and Deutsche Bank in Germany have set aside more cash to cover potential losses on office loans, particularly to cover exposure in the United States.
There are small-cap funds, and there are mid-cap funds, and those invest in both. These are what you call SMID-Cap funds. Investors can find SMID-Cap top stock picks from these funds for the long haul. One of the best available is the Eaton Vance Atlanta Capital SMID-Cap Fund (MUTF:EAASX), an actively managed fund that allows its small-cap stocks to stay in the fund when they become mid-caps and mid-cap stocks to stay in after they become large caps. “This strategy evolved back in the early 2000