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Bitcoin now 7th largest global asset

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
... more impressive considering Bitcoin's relative youth - just over a decade old - compared to other more established asset classes," Quinn-Kumar said. "Moreover, adoption remains relatively nascent, with Bitcoin still in the process of being integrated ...

Family offices turn to start-ups, M&As: PwC

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
... fundamentally transforming" as they become prominent players in an expanding array of investment deals across a range of asset classes. "Contrary to the belief that family offices are homogeneous and typically created through a "cash event" like a company ...

Bitcoin returns 147%, outshines bull market

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... nearly four times more in returns compared to US equities during 2024, achieving 147% and trumping all the major asset classes. According to a VanEck and Bloomberg analysis, US equities delivered 38.2% for the year while global equities in general made ...

Investors should stay the course in 2025: Expert

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... Additionally, Rose noted that Morningstar tends to favour the Chinese and the South Korean markets for specific asset classes against the "expensive" US equities, but ultimately it sees more value in the latter. "We have noted in our paper that we also ...

Bull market buoys super funds' 2024 returns

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2025
... "The quality of returns reflects strategic allocation and active performance by our equity and credit managers to asset classes and our overweight to stocks which we expected to perform strongly during the year, and this strategy has been successful," ...

Goodman Group welcomes Norwegian investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
... Investments in GNAP across our global partnerships. We look forward to maintaining our strong working relationship across asset classes and geographies," Goodman Group chief executive Greg Goodman said. "We welcome NBIM to Goodman's global investment ...

Boutique global asset management firms' investment outlook

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
... potential inflationary wave. Such a scenario would significantly alter expectations for interest rates, the USD, and asset classes across the board. In any case, CPIs will remain volatile based on energy prices developments," he said. Lastly, liquidity ...

HMC Capital unit beefs up Melbourne office

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... tailored funding solutions to property developers in the state. He has a banking background in multiple property asset classes, including residential, build-to-rent, commercial and industrial. Not surprisingly, Lynn has worked at three big four lenders ...

Sue Brake joins NZ Super, Lisa Gray departs VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... this investment style, funds do not operate with a fixed strategic asset allocation, and they avoid silos across asset classes. NZ Super, AustralianSuper, Future Fund and TCorp are all proponents of TPA, arguing that strategic asset allocation has major ...

TCorp returns 7%, AUM hits $110bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
... unlisted assets. About $800 million is invested in unlisted property and infrastructure. Performance from these asset classes was mixed with property delivering -9.4% p.a. and infrastructure achieving 4.6% p.a. This year, TCorp amalgamated several investment ...