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Vanguard pays $40m in ESG antitrust lawsuit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2026
... other organisations "that advocate for the setting of specific output or emissions targets... such as Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM), Ceres, or Climate Action 100+." Vanguard's US business dropped out of PRI in November 2025. It withdrew from NZAM ...

Ex-Zenith partner joins private assets platform

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2026
... investors. Ben Davis brings more than 25 years' experience at the intersection of advisers, consultants, and asset managers. He joins from Ascalon Capital Partners, where he was head of private markets for seven months helping the asset consultant ...

KKR to acquire Arctos Partners

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2026
... liquidity solutions to sports franchises. Meanwhile, under Arctos Keystone or GP Solutions, it offers alternative asset managers to sponsors. The deal will advance KKR's ambitions of scaling its platform by building and acquiring complementary businesses ...

Macquarie AM to acquire Last Mile Infrastructure and Energy Assets Group

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2026
... Meantime, MAM will acquire Energy Assets Group (EAG) from Asterion Industrial Partners, EDF Invest and Swiss Life Asset Managers. Managing a portfolio of 1.8 million advanced and smart meters, EAG installs, owns and operates last-mile utility connections ...

Former Perpetual executive takes helm at UBS AM

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
... departure of three senior executives, including Quaife. He subsequently ran his own consultancy, working with boutique asset managers on strategic distribution plans, before joining UBS. Quaife earlier worked at Franklin Templeton for 17 years in senior ...

Investment managers ramp up AI use in front offices

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2026
Seventy percent of buy-side firms, including asset managers, pension funds and insurance companies, are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) in front offices, while more than half are scaling implementation. The 2026 Global InvestOps report from SimCorp ...

Fund managers 'remarkably positive' despite headwinds: Frontier

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2026
... prospects, despite concerns at the industry level; fees remain central in the discussions between asset owners, asset managers and asset consultants; people and processes are the most important elements to get right; advice free from product conflict ...

FEATURE | Recruitment: Laying foundations

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2026
... struggle to maintain market share in competition with passive investors. Morningstar's 2025 pulse check on asset managers estimated lumpier growth in fund flows of listed Australian fund managers in the coming year, much less than the double-digit ...

BlackRock loses $8.9bn pension fund mandate

MATT TOLEDO  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
... reviewing its relationship with BlackRock as early as January, following the firm's departure from the Net-Zero Asset Managers Initiative, a collective of asset managers who sought to achieve net zero portfolio emissions by 2050. The initiative paused ...

Life insurers to up external fund manager mandates: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
... in-house expertise and a drive to cut costs were ranked as the two least important factors. "The use of third-party asset managers across APAC is set to accelerate as insurers become increasingly comfortable with the practice and seek specialised expertise ...