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Pacific Current names acting chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
Pacific Current named a former Challenger executive to lead the multi-boutique in an interim capacity. Michael Clarke, who spent more than 10 years at Challenger, takes the top job at Pacific Current following the resignation of managing director, chief ...

BlackRock acquires Preqin in $4.8bn deal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
BlackRock has agreed to acquire Preqin for £2.55 billion or approximately US$3.2 billion ($4.8 billion) in cash. BlackRock said bringing together Preqin's data and research tools with Aladdin's complementary workflow capabilities in a unified platform ...

Real estate fund manager chief executive departs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024
The chief executive of Eildon Capital Group is exiting the ASX-listed real estate fund manager on June 30. After two years in the top job and as joint company secretary, Laurence Parisi is leaving after the board "carefully evaluated the position of ...

Long-term optimism for APAC despite short-term hurdles

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2024
The short-term outlook for APAC may appear cautious but long-term investors will remain attracted to the fundamental growth potential of the region's emerging markets, according to an Alternatives in APAC 2024 report from Preqin. Preqin analysts maintained ...

Systematic investing in fixed income: Critical success factors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024
... across multiple fields and cover many fixed income classes globally," AllianceBernstein said. Third and final, the fund manager said any investors who can't effectively assess a bond's liquidity won't see success. "To keep up in a marketplace that will ...

Betashares promotes key sales execs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024
Betashares has strengthened its distribution team with two key promotions as it moves to accelerate growth in superannuation, retirement, and retail wealth management. The promotions come just two days after Singapore's state-owned fund Temasek ...

Where does the world's largest active manager say to invest?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024
... customers in many locations, appear attractive. A Morningstar analysis shows Capital Group is the largest purely active fund manager.

Platinum shutters London operations, UCITS funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2024
... channels. The Platinum Capital (PMC) and Platinum Asia Investments (PAI) strategies could be on the chopping block as the fund manager targets those that "lack sufficient scale to generate the liquidity required to maintain share prices close to the ...

Betashares captures most net flows in managed funds industry

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2024
... has commandeered the top spot for net flows among all investment managers in the managed funds industry. The local fund manager, which yesterday received a $300 million injection from Singaporean conglomerate Temasek, amassed $5.3 billion in net flows ...

QIC splashes $32m on PEP acquisition

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024
... greater returns than those seen by this asset class over the past decade," Miall said. The Queensland government's fund manager, which has some $100 billion in AUM, has recently ramped up its investing spree specifically in the venture capital space ...