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LGT Crestone promotes investment duo

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... shaping LGT Crestone's direct fixed income execution and co-investment capabilities across both public and private markets. Before joining LGT Crestone in 2019, Lin spent five years at Deutsche Bank in the equity capital markets team and has helped ...

Metrics managing partner departs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
... 2011," Metrics said. "His experience and leadership have helped build Metrics into one of Australia's leading private markets asset management firms with more than $30 billion in assets under management." Metrics managing partner and group chief executive ...

Pension leaders urge US 401(k) plans to embrace private markets

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... systems in Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada, and Australia allocate 15-40% of their total portfolios to private markets, with real estate often accounting for half that exposure. Funded retirement assets now top $60 trillion globally. This figure ...

Old challenges push asset managers to inflection point: Citi

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... More than half of the 269 global asset managers surveyed, including ones from Australia investing in public and private markets, said fee compression has been accelerating. A similar number of managers claim costs have been rising faster than revenues. ...

Uncertainty propels investors towards active managers

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... believing active management can "deliver value". Investors are also actively seeking returns through both public and private markets, with public equities (46%) and private equity (53%) emerged as the preferred asset classes for the current environment. ...

Wealth groups tap operations leads

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... door. Aura Group has named Nathan Harris as its new chief operating officer as the firm continues to expand in the private markets. Harris' appointment is part of a strategic initiative to improve the operational structure and unify the oversight ...

Geopolitical risks force family offices into alternatives, cash: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... collectively have US$320 billion in assets, want to collaborate with external partners, especially when it comes to private markets. More than half noted gaps in their internal expertise around reporting (57%), deal-sourcing (63%), and private-market ...

Msquared Capital secures $150m warehouse facility with Australian bank

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... invested during the Global Financial Crisis want to ensure their funds are not locked up for extended periods, as private markets are often illiquid in nature and they are keen to understand the manager's ability to find liquidity when required the most." ...

Trade war threat sparks allocation rethink by asset owners

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... some funds back onshore," one superannuation fund representative said. As asset owners rethink their allocations, private markets were also increasingly viewed as a strategic investment, affording them more direct influence over company operations and ...

Aussies feeling FOMO on private markets: Survey

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
Investors are afraid of missing out on opportunities in private markets, but many are hesitant about the asset class for one reason. Natixis Investment Managers' survey of over 7000 investors around the world found that a third (32%) of Australian ...