Asset Managers

Blackstone's BREIT owns 8 Spruce Street is a 76-story skyscraper designed by architect Frank Gehry in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, NY USA. Photo by Matt Walter via Flickr CC-BY-2.0
Asset Managers
May 2, 2023

Blackstone fund accepts less than one third of redemptions

The Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, one of the world’s largest property investment funds, in…
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Amundi
Asset Managers
April 28, 2023

‘Unfavourable evolution’ in markets hurts income at Amundi

First-quarter net income at Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, fell 7.5 percent to 300 million…
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Protest sign against fossil fuels. Photo via Unsplash.
Asset Managers
April 27, 2023

Green Deal: SFDR struggles to encourage sustainable investing

The European Union is taking a major step forward with its Green Deal initiative, and investors are…
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SimCorp's head office in Copenhagen. Photo: Wikimedia CC-BY-2.0.
Asset Managers
April 27, 2023

Deutsche Börse offers €3.9 billion for data firm SimCorp  

Deutsche Börse AG on Thursday made an offer of 3.9 billion euro in cash for Danish investment…
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Raymond SagayRaymond Sagayam, the 47th Managing Partner of Pictet Group
Asset Managers
April 27, 2023

Raymond Sagayam appointed as managing partner at Pictet

Pictet Group has announced the appointment of Raymond Sagayam as the 47th Managing Partner in the…
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Transparency. Photo via Unsplash CC-BY-2.0.
Asset Managers
April 20, 2023

Investors want clearer view on risks in alternatives

Institutional investors expect greater transparency when investing in alternative assets, mostly…
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Wall Street
Asset Managers
April 20, 2023

Misjudging Fed interest rates could be a costly mistake

Equity investors may be underestimating the potential consequences of a miscalculation of the…
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Asset Managers
April 18, 2023

Fund pickers increasingly avoid ‘carbon emitters’

Decarbonisation is a trend expected to continue among investors during the coming years. One out of…
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Biodiversity. Photo via Unsplash CC-BY-2.0.
Asset Managers
April 18, 2023

Banks struggle in their search for biodiversity funds

Banks are keen to invest more in biodiversity but experience difficulties in finding suitable…
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Maxime Budzin, Clifford Chance
Asset Managers
April 17, 2023

Reverse hybrid rules playing major role in funds

The Luxembourg government clarified its application of the reverse hybrid rule in the EU’s second…
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Alexanddre Goossens, PwC Luxembourg
Asset Managers
April 14, 2023

No policy needed on Reifs: market experts respond to ECB proposal

A recent European Central Bank study calling for a regulatory framework to address instability in…
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Tarun Nagpal, founder of S64.
Asset Managers
April 6, 2023

S64’s Nagpal sees Europe as ‘next frontier’ for retail private equity

The traditional private equity world has realised only in the past two years that creating products…
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Asset Managers
April 5, 2023

No panic in the REIF market, even as ECB calls for policy framework

Although there’s consensus on clouds hanging over private real estate markets while some investors…
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The CSSF head office in Luxembourg.
Asset Managers
April 3, 2023

CSSF asks LDI funds to maintain buffers

Luxembourg’s financial supervisor CSSF on Monday said it expects managers of Liability Driven…
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