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Gender parity in financial services an economic imperative

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
... and take more career breaks for caregiving duties, leading to less retirement savings. "Investing isn't just for Wall Street bros. It's for [women also]. And it's the key to financial freedom, security, and the life you actually want," Chanana ...

Partners Group staffer quits to join NYC firm

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
Partners Group client relationship manager Marcus Clitheroe has quit the firm to take up a senior role with a Wall Street private equity firm. Clitheroe has scored a role as a principal at the global multi-strategy private markets investment firm Siguler ...

AustralianSuper welcomes AI tech competition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
Mayhem erupted on Wall Street on Monday (local time) after Chinese-owned DeepSeek burst onto the artificial intelligence (AI) scene, wiping $1 trillion off chip maker Nvidia. AustralianSuper holds around $2 billion of Nvidia shares in its balanced option ...

Trump inaugurated as 47th President

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
... today's market action, in which the US dollar sold off and risk appetite rebounded elsewhere in the world keyed off a Wall Street Journal exclusive from earlier in the day that described a Trump memo indicating no immediate tariffs. Rather, the memo ...

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

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
... entrepreneurial families, with only 5% owned by heirs. Increasingly, tech pioneers and hedge fund managers, dubbed "Wall Street billionaires," are entering this space, impacting investment strategies."

Gensler to leave SEC in January

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024
... wrongdoers accountable and return billions to harmed investors." Gensler's term was characterised by his tough stance on Wall Street misconduct and even tougher regulation of cryptocurrency. Most cryptocurrencies have surged on the back of Trump's election ...

Billionaire quant investing legend Jim Simons dies

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
... secret sauce lay in its preference for recruiting mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists over traditional Wall Street professionals. In 1994, Simons and his wife, Marilyn Simons, founded the Simons Foundation, which is dedicated to supporting ...

Bitcoin ETFs given green light by US regulator

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024
... approval of spot bitcoin ETFs should add further confidence to the digital asset ecosystem and could pave the way for Wall Street to move deeper into cryptocurrencies as an asset class," he said. "The move to approve a spot bitcoin ETF will finally provide ...

Wall Street firms slugged $442m for recordkeeping breach

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023
BNP Paribas Securities, Moelis & Company, and Wells Fargo are among 11 firms that copped massive fines that totalled US$289 million ($442m) after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) found that they used personal apps to conduct business. From ...

BlackRock Bitcoin ETF: A landmark institutional event?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2023
... institutional event in Bitcoin history. Sidelska said the BlackRock ETF filing is a definitive stamp of approval by Wall Street that Bitcoin is "institutionally investable" or an asset class that's not going away. Of note, in the two weeks since ...