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Old challenges push asset managers to inflection point: Citi

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
Asset managers continue to face existential challenges amid the rise of passive funds, fee compression and difficulty in generating alpha, a new report from Citi shows, forcing them to rethink their business models and value propositions in the future. ...

Trade war threat sparks allocation rethink by asset owners

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... asset owners surveyed, nearly half of which come from Australia and New Zealand, concerns around the status of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, global economic volatility, and US-China relations were also consistently raised. Morningstar said that amid these ...

Active Super fined $10.5m for greenwashing

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025
... Russian companies since the invasion of Ukraine. For example, an Active Super Responsible Investment report highlighted 'RUSSIA OUT' as a country exclusion. That report revealed that Active Super held investments in Russian stocks through two ...

Monetary policy not the only game in town: Brian Redican

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
... the impacts on interest rates and energy prices if that transition isn't well managed," Redican said. "The experience of Russia's invasion of Ukraine flashed a light on what that transition might be. If we don't have a seamless transition, then things ...

Dimon 'cautiously pessimistic' on US economy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... And I think that geopolitics is very complicated. It's scary. It's complicated - how we're going to deal with Russia, Iran, North Korea, and ultimately with China," he said. Despite the positives, he admits there is a sense of gloom in the ...

Economist's wishlist: Lower tariffs, bond yields settling

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... markets because emerging market debt is priced in US dollars," Mousina said. Lastly, a resolution of major conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, and Israel and Hamas, would be "very welcome". "From a markets point of view, global conflicts and the threat ...

Trump's response to global conflict adds uncertainty to private markets: IFM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
How the Trump administration handles geopolitical conflicts, including the Russia-Ukraine war and Israeli-Palestinian conflict, will inject uncertainty to private markets, according to IFM Investors' Private Markets Macro Outlook. IFM Investors chief ...

TPG co-founder David Bonderman dies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
David Bonderman, the co-founder of global alternatives investor TPG, passed away this week. Bonderman, affectionately known as 'Bondo' to many, was also founder of Wildcat Capital Management, the Bonderman family office, and owner of National Hockey ...

Geopolitical tensions create investor opportunity: Franklin Templeton

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
Escalating geopolitical tensions around the world has made defense a critical focus for investors, according to a new paper from Franklin Templeton. These geopolitical pressures, comparable in impact to climate change, are now immediate, direct, and ...

Making a splash: The economic impact of AUKUS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
... troops and warships in the western Pacific. It also moved troops and equipment to eastern Europe to counter a resurgent Russia," the LA Times wrote. The Guardian reports he authorised over 10 times more drone strikes than George W. Bush. Obama won the ...
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