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Its funds are structured as 10-year vehicles, but the more mature profile of the portfolio businesses allows it to start returning capital early.

Through the partnership, Synopsys “will further accelerate and optimize its broad portfolio of compute-intensive applications spanning chip design, physical verification, molecular simulations, electromagnetic analysis optical simulation and more,” according to a press release.

For an investor such as an insurance company, with long-term obligations, that helps with the so-called duration of their portfolios.

“Investors have gotten a gut-check for the first time all year — other than the tariff tantrum,” said Aaron Clark, a portfolio manager at GW&K Investment Management, in an interview with MarketWatch.

But if investors are looking for a little something to diversify their portfolios, the Scots are back with plans to issue Scotland’s first bond in over 300 years.