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Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman dies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and author, has died aged 90. Kahneman was an Israeli American psychologist whose research into human behaviour upended economics. Kahneman's research demonstrated humans would often abandon logic and ...

HMC Capital acquires asset manager

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
HMC Capital has successfully acquired North American Digital Infrastructure asset manager StratCap in a deal worth $43.7 million. HMC Capital announced its intention to acquire the company in its 1H FY24 results on February 20. The transaction is expected ...

MFS Investment Management appoints chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2024
... from Michael Roberge, the incoming chair. O'Neil joined MFS in 2005, progressed to director of research for North American in 2016, took on a diversified portfolio management role in 2018, and was appointed co-chief investment officer of equity in ...

Aware, Macquarie partner on green finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2024
... by MAM in a US$250 million deal in June. Galway offers scale and efficient capital deployment to help fund the North American sustainability transition. Since 2020 the firm has made over $US309m in commitments across 27 investments into emerging sustainability ...

Warren Buffet honours Charlie Munger in Berkshire shareholder letter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024
... have no possibility of eye-popping performance," Buffet said. But Berkshire "should do a bit better" than the average American corporation and, more importantly, operate with materially less risk of permanent capital loss, he added. Meanwhile, on the ...

Macquarie profits tumble; long-serving executive exits

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2024
... Commodities and Global Markets (CGM) experienced a decline in contributions, primarily from reduced trading revenues in North American gas, power, and emissions, alongside a dip in risk management revenue. Macquarie Capital reported 59 global transactions ...

Bitcoin ETFs given green light by US regulator

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024
Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have been approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a landmark moment for the legitimisation of the world's largest cryptocurrency. The SEC approved 11 Bitcoin ETF application from major institutional ...

Lombard Odier breaks into Australia, issues private credit mandate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023
... investors capital preservation and risk adjusted returns through senior secured private credit loans to mostly North American providers of climate solutions. The trust will act as a feeder into the existing Sustainable Private Credit strategy's Luxembourg-based ...

Rest names internal global equities lead

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023
... high-conviction portfolio manager specialising in global equities. Additionally, he's been a senior portfolio manager for a North American equities fund at USS Investment Management, the UK's largest pension fund, with prior positions at F&C Investments ...

Future Fund exposed to dangerous Chinese investments: Opposition

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2023
... matters." Several of the audited companies have faced international censure, including being barred from businesses in North American and European markets, mandated by Canada to relinquish some critical mineral investments, delisted in the US for audit ...
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