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APAC now most active region for VC: Data

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2023
... to $1.21 trillion in September last year, surpassing North America's $1.04 trillion. According to Preqin's Alternatives in APAC 2023 report, since the pandemic, APAC has overtaken North America as the most active region for VC. Preqin's fund ...

Advisers pivot to protect retirees from inflation

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2023
... several common themes, including the merits of commodities, infrastructure, real estate, inflation-linked bonds, and alternatives, as inflationary hedges," it found. It also pointed out product strategies to mitigate inflation risk. "For many retirees ...

Frontier overhauls research function

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
... led by Manish Rastogi with Jennifer Johnstone-Kaiser as head of property. Michiel Swaak has been appointed head of alternatives. "These changes will support the evolution our clients are looking to implement in their portfolios and reflect emerging opportunities ...

Family offices look to infrastructure for alpha

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
Family offices are increasingly allocating to infrastructure and shunning more risky alternatives such as venture capital and hedge funds, a new BlackRock report shows. Infrastructure will be a pivotal alpha-generating strategy for family offices this ...

MA Financial establishes Singapore office

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023
... the d'Albora marina fund launched last month. "Asian investors are typically underweight private markets and alternatives, and it's a structural reason why, rather than not being exposed to it," Martin said. "Also, Australia is attractive on ...

Macquarie terminates alternatives fund

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
... running sustainably. The investment manager said a strategic review determined the Macquarie Professional Series Global Alternatives Fund could not be managed in a cost-effective way without such increases. "The fund is currently small in scale and therefore ...

US default risk: Are credit default swaps signalling trouble?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023
... disruptions in the event of an imminent default. Though, Abad stressed the high political and economic cost of such alternatives. "We believe a default on any Treasury payment would precipitate a severe market reaction with market volatility approaching ...

Qantas Super appoints deputy investment chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
... risk-return profiles over the medium term. "These opportunities include private equity, infrastructure, and other alternatives such as agriculture, timberland and the like. So quite a diversity in terms of the asset allocation. "The key drivers of our ...

GAM shareholders challenge acquisition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023
... fully assess whether the offer complies with the Swiss minimum price requirement as well as the rules regarding cash alternatives." This is the second challenge raised by the group, having previously said the offer from Liontrust undervalues GAM and ...

PGIM buys majority stake in Deerpath Capital

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023
... as part of PGIM Private Capital (PCC), supported by PGIM. The Deerpath team will work closely with PCC's head of alternatives Jeff Dickson, who oversees direct lending alongside PCC's corporate mezzanine, energy mezzanine and sustainable power investment ...