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Private capital, active ETFs to continue shake up of financial services: Deloitte

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
... and regulatory changes that make private capital more accessible to retail investors. "While a large number of private assets available to retail investors are currently held within interval funds managed primarily by private capital firms, traditional ...

Japan's first digital investment platform for private assets goes live

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
Tokyo-based financial services firm Keyaki Capital has launched what its describes as a "first of its kind" online platform to exclusively offer private equity, private credit, and other private asset investment funds to Japanese high-net-worth investors. ...

Short-term noise reinforces long-term investment thinking: ART

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025
... scenarios, bonds will do what you want them to do, but not under higher inflation scenarios, which is why we need private assets. It's another string to our diversification bow," Parker said. Private assets also provide a bigger opportunity set ...

ASIC tiptoes around private markets intervention

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
... than we have at the moment. It's a big subject," he said. Super funds, which have shown growing demand for private assets, are facing pronounced concentration risks given that they already dominate the ASX. Longo acknowledged that the ASX has "topped ...

Fink takes private markets to next level

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
... late 2024, it acquired private credit manager HPS Investment Partners for US$12 billion. Fink flagged that these private assets are due for indexation. "With clearer, more timely data, it becomes possible to index private markets just like we do now ...

'We're not going anywhere': SS&C serious about Aussie expansion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... said. "We understand the assets that different funds are going to use and there's been a pretty big shift into private assets, which also creates a lot of differences for administrators, portfolio managers and investors. "You're not going to ...

Apex on local hiring spree

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... it's difficult to hire someone who has say, worked in a long-only fund from an accounting perspective, compared to private assets style fund administration," he said. Aside from the decumulation phase of the superannuation system, a key theme is ...

ASIC turns up the heat on private markets

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... and adverse selection risks are on ASIC's radar. ASIC is also examining superannuation funds' role in the private assets sector. APRA statistics show that superannuation funds allocate between 0% and 38% of their total assets - comprising a mix ...

Superannuation powerbrokers bound for US investment summit

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
... outperformed Australian stocks, lifting members' investment returns, while funds also have "substantial holdings" in US private assets, including critical infrastructure. "Australia's superannuation pool of capital is growing at such a trajectory that ...

Super failures, greenwashing: ASIC's key issues in 2025

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... play a role in generating wealth. Through superannuation investments, many Australians have indirect exposure to private assets. Private markets operate differently than public markets and are inherently less transparent." In turn, ASIC said it would ...