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Bain Capital improves Insignia Financial bid

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
Insignia Financial has opened its books to Bain Capital after it matched CC Capital Partners' revised takeover offer. It comes as the wealth giant reports several achievements, including growth in its alternatives business. After CC Capital lobbed a ...

Scarcity Partners enlists former Ophir Asset Management chief

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
GP staking specialist Scarcity Partners has appointed former Ophir Asset Management chief executive George Chirakis as a partner. Chirakis, who has over 20 years of experience in investment management, sales, and distribution, including leadership roles ...

Natixis, Generali merger creates $3.2tn fund manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
Natixis Investment Managers will combine with Generali Investments Holdings (GIH) to create a behemoth with €1.9 trillion ($3.2tn) in assets under management (AUM). The Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Natixis' owner BPCE and GIH's ...

Where to invest when local equities look expensive

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
Australian equities are richly priced, yet local portfolios remain heavily skewed towards the domestic market; investors have avenues to seek out diversification and better value, according to Morningstar market strategist Lochlan Halloway. Australian ...

Dimon 'cautiously pessimistic' on US economy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
Despite the raging bull market, and lower inflation and unemployment levels, JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon is "cautiously pessimistic" about the US economy in 2025. Dimon said in a CBS interview that geopolitical tensions underpin his stance ...

GIC's investment chief to step down

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
GIC investment chief Jeffrey Jaensubhakij plans to step down after almost three decades at the sovereign wealth fund, according to local reports. It is widely expected that deputy group chief investment officer Bryan Yeo will be promoted to the top ...

Top asset management trends for 2025

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
Despite a turbulent 2024, the prospect of more accommodating monetary and regulatory policies has turbocharged an up and to the right trend that's flattered many asset managers' businesses. However, themes that will shape the industry now, and in the ...

ESG linked to pay in top APAC listed firms

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
APAC financials, energy, and materials firms are most likely to link ESG metrics to executive incentive plans. Across the top 400 APAC firms, 193 disclosed their executive incentive metrics. Three-quarters (74%) used ESG metrics. Australian companies ...

Economist's wishlist: Lower tariffs, bond yields settling

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
AMP deputy chief economist Diana Mousina has listed the top five things the AMP econosights team is hoping to see in 2025. Firstly, Mousina said that while higher trade tariffs are unavoidable given the incoming US President, she hopes the US will stop ...

Trump's response to global conflict adds uncertainty to private markets: IFM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
How the Trump administration handles geopolitical conflicts, including the Russia-Ukraine war and Israeli-Palestinian conflict, will inject uncertainty to private markets, according to IFM Investors' Private Markets Macro Outlook. IFM Investors chief ...