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Bitcoin now 7th largest global asset

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
Bitcoin finished 2024 up 123.4%, ranking as the seventh largest global asset by market capitalisation, according to new research from Binance Australia. However, momentum stalled in late December when the US Federal Reserve scaled back its planned 2025 ...

UBS injects $100m into Centuria Bass

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
... the past six months," Centuria Bass joint chief executive Giles Borten said. "UBS' commitment enables us to significantly scale our ability to service the domestic middle-market real estate finance sector with first mortgage bridging finance and residual ...

Monetary policy to underscore 2025 allocations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... worrisome circumstance, the US political class has no coherent plan to rein that deficit in," he said. Eventually, the sheer scale of bond issuance needed to fund this deficit may unsettle bond investors, possibly sending yields higher, and if that were ...

MetLife snaps up three investment teams from Mesirow

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
MetLife Investment Management will acquire three investment teams and assets managed by Mesirow, shortly after it announced its acquisition of PineBridge Investments. MetLife Investment Management will take on Mesirow's high yield and bank loan strategic ...

ASX bleeds $41bn from delistings

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... debut on December 13. On December 18, DGT finalised its acquisition of Global Switch Australia, or SYD1, the only large-scale data centre campus in Sydney's CBD connected to all major submarine cables and intracity and intercity fibre networks. LSEG's ...

AustralianSuper wins fund of the year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
... of new capital being invested outside of Australia. The "real challenge," however, is to build the platform to invest at scale and manage a large, globally diversified portfolio. He said one of the big strategic focuses for the fund has been to build ...

CC Capital Partners bids for Insignia

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
... after the date of the indicative proposal or the potential alternative to roll into unlisted stub equity subject to caps and scale-back, Insignia said. The ASX-listed firm had more than 670.7 million ordinary shares outstanding at the end of June 2024 ...

MetLife to acquire PineBridge Investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
... MetLife said the acquisition of PineBridge will represent the tactical advancement of the strategy by adding "significant scale" to its asset management arm, which is set to increase to over US$700 billion, while also broadening its global offerings ...

Sanlam Private Wealth breaches licensee obligations, hit with enforceable undertaking

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
... to implement a training program to assess representatives' skills. ASIC deputy chair Sarah Court said with the vast scale of its diverse cohort of authorised entities, Sanlam must have "robust compliance processes" in place. Sanlam had inadequate ...

Superhero Super assets to swell via fund transfer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
... administering superannuation funds, potentially leading to poor outcomes for members in cases where there isn't sufficient scale," the notice reads. "This decision has been reached following a thorough evaluation of the fund, which considered its ...