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Schroders appoints regional leadership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... well positioned for the next stage of growth," Debruyne said. Separately, the firm has been preparing to bring a private equity fund to Australia later this year, with plans afoot to use a fund-of-fund structure to invest in externally-managed private ...

Will COVID-19 infect mortgages and RMBS?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... to forget the lessons of 2008 - especially, don't underestimate mortgage defaults. Thomas J. Barrack, a US private equity real estate investor and founder and chair of Colony Capital, this week warned that commercial mortgage markets are in jeopardy. ...

Former Toys "R" Us executives face fraud charges

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... of wrongdoing". "Toys "R" Us is yet another unfortunate example of corporate greed resulting in executives and private equity firms benefiting at the expense of others," TRU Trust attorney, Greg Dovel said. "The defendants prioritized their own financial ...

Hermes handbags an emerging asset class for UHNWs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... The leading asset classes for the rich are still property (27% allocation), equities (23%), fixed income (17%), private equity (11%) and surprisingly, cryptocurrencies at 1% -- meaning that collectables are a fringe asset class for the rich. "The results ...

QIC names new head of global private capital

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... and setting up the QIC global private capital office in San Francisco. Whatmore has invested across all of QIC's private equity strategies, including venture capital, buyouts, secondaries and co-investments in the US. He has been at QIC since 2008. Prior ...

Future Fund property head departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2020
... Tillyard's replacement. Norris is Future Fund deputy chief investment officer for private markets which includes private equity, property, and infrastructure and timberland portfolios. Future Fund's property portfolio was valued at over $10 billion at ...

Global asset manager fills giant impact fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
... financial performance and societal impact are "intrinsically aligned". "Specifically, the Fund is focused on generating private equity risk-adjusted returns by investing in companies in the lower middle market that contribute measurable progress toward ...

Global fund enters private equity

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020
A $6 trillion global investment manager has entered a strategic partnership to provide investors access to private equity. Vanguard has announced the partnership with HarbourVest to enter the private equity market in the hopes of providing investors ...

Macquarie suit to lead Challenger joint venture

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2020
... credit, is the biggest slice of Ares's business, accounting for almost 75% of its total FUM. It also invests in private equity (corporate PE, special opportunities, energy, and infrastructure and power) and real estate (both equity and debt). Ares ...

Perpetual appoints APAC lead

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... markets. At TMF, he was responsible for the region's business development and client director activities, including private equity, real estate, capital markets, trusts, private wealth, corporate secretarial, accounting, tax, human resources and payroll. ...