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Fund managers prepare for harsher penalties

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024
... international study among fund managers at private equity, venture capital and real estate firms revealed 79% were expecting the overall value of fines issued in their sectors for breaking regulation would increase, with 18% expecting a dramatic rise. ...

BlackRock faces 'stiff competition' from APAC asset managers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2024
... their pole positions, their dominance is progressively eroding. Specifically, BlackRock hasn't managed to "consolidate its overall position in the APAC region," achieving a top-five ranking in just four out of seven markets, and experiencing "stiff competition" ...

Infrastructure a foundational portfolio asset class: IFM Investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... billion investment allocation to infrastructure last year, making up a quarter of its alternative's portfolio and 4.2% of overall assets. Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the largest asset owner in the country and the world's largest ...

PE deals tumble again, down 63%: Bain & Company

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... deal value and volume grow - indicative of investors increasingly betting on assets related to the energy transition. Overall, the report found that Asia Pacific investors largely put dealmaking on hold last year due to worries of slowing economic growth ...

Threats outside the Australian financial system build: RBA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... relatively contained. "The Australian banking system could manage an unexpectedly large deterioration in economic conditions as overall capital levels are high and lending standards have been prudent in recent years. Banks are also resilient to temporary ...

T. Rowe Price launches bond fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... yields elevated. Broadly, we maintained our steepening bias on the US Treasury curve. Within the eurozone, we trimmed our overall underweight duration bias in the second half of the month as we pivoted to overweight bias to Germany," the note read.

US Federal Reserve eyes multiple interest rate cuts this year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... downplayed the importance of recent inflation prints, and instead referred to the expected inflation path as "bumpy." "The overall picture, however, was of a Fed that really wants to cut rates, would need a good reason not to cut rates, and is quite ...

Listed companies drive economy's momentum: ABDO

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... EPS expectations and 20% missed it. Sales and margins were also better than expected, while dividends paid were higher. Overall, Bruce said that this was a "pretty good outcome" when it came to comparing how companies performed against expectations as ...

Financial services class actions surge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... against BT Funds Management as trustee of BT Super, while IG Markets was the target of two class actions filed in May 2023. Overall, the number of class actions filed in 2023 were the second highest of all time. As for where the risks lie in 2024, Allens ...

ASIC extends ETF class order

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2024
... pre-launch time and costs for those issuers that currently need to seek individual relief from ASIC, as well as increasing the overall competitiveness of Australia's managed fund industry". Cboe also agreed that it supports the relief being extended ...