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FEATURE: Fixed income | Adjusting the lens

PENNY PRYOR  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2026
... question of how central banks would adjust monetary policy in reaction to higher oil prices. At the start of the year, the US market was pricing for two or three cuts from the Fed but has since moved to pricing in a slight chance of a hike. In terms ...

Rest 'diversifies its diversifiers' with US neighbourhood malls

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2026
Rest has invested US$250 million in the US Cities Retail Fund (USCRF), managed by Nuveen Real Estate, broadening its exposure to retail property. USCRF invests in neighbourhood shopping centres in major US markets. Rest head of real assets for investments ...

Openmarkets to merge, list on Nasdaq

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2026
... strategy, opening up new sources of capital and onboarding new, strategically aligned investors whilst giving Openmarkets a US market presence," Jowett said. Lake Superior chief executive Edward Cong Wang said there is enormous commercial potential for ...

FEATURE: Private credit | At the precipice

GLENDA KORPORAAL  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... adding that stress will be sporadic and sector-specific, particularly affecting retail. Rather than focusing on the US market, IFM is exploring opportunities in Asia, another highly banked market in the early stages of bank disintermediation. Nunez also ...

APAC investors push for 24-hour trading in US markets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2025
A new whitepaper by DTCC explores the implications of US markets switching to a 24x5 trading schedule, allowing investors to trade 24 hours a day, five days a week. The paper said global demand, especially from APAC investors, and regulatory permissibility ...

Waning AI optimism, Fed rate cut driving US pullback: UniSuper

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
UniSuper head of fixed interest David Colosimo says the November pullback in the US market is driven by the waning optimism on the sustainability of the AI thematic and a rate cut by the Federal Reserve. Colosimo said the market is now questioning the ...

Assembly Funds Management reopens second retail fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2025
Over a year since the second close of the fund, the Lowy family-backed Assembly Funds Management (AFM) has once again reopened the Australian Diversified Property Fund 2 (ADPF2), with 65% now invested across the living, retail and office sectors. The ...

Passive strategies show 'higher survivorship' over active: Morningstar

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
... inefficiencies in relatively underresearched segments of the market." When it came to global large-cap stocks, the report said: "US market exceptionalism remained a key driver of passive outperformance. Notably, as US markets contended with the impact ...

US equities not performing as well as they seem: UniSuper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2025
... October." Unsurprisingly, the big names in technology, and specifically those exposed to the AI thematic, were driving US market gains; namely Nvidia, OpenAI, AMD, Broadcom and Salesforce. However, Colosimo said that while many companies are profiting ...

Federated Hermes to acquire majority interest in FCP

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... held primarily outside of the US. The acquisition will also expand Federated Hermes' real estate capabilities into the US market and will be complementary to existing real estate operations in the UK, which consist of US$5.5 billion in assets under management. ...