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...’s co-head of Asia-Pacific and regional head of infrastructure, said he expected more dealmaking activity this year after a dearth in 2023, with many new sources of capital, including direct investors, emerging...
...Blackstone’s fund invests with managers including New York-based Two Sigma, one of the world’s biggest quantitative hedge fund firms, Florida-based credit manager Bayview and London-based emerging markets...
...The New York-based investor, which manages nearly $500bn in assets including a $15bn Asian private equity fund, wants to invest more of the group’s own balance sheet directly into Japan and fast-growing...
...“The main question from LPs is why China right now, and it’s a really hard question to answer,” said a Beijing-based investor, whose fund has been unable to raise new capital....
...One of the parts of the proposed rules that has sparked much concern is a carve-out for US limited partners (LP) — the endowments, pension funds and charities that put money into venture funds....
...Earlier this year, Carlyle began studying ways to sell its stake to large limited partners such as sovereign wealth funds, according to people familiar with the matter....
...It is one of a number of corporate operators of private schools, like Nord Anglia, Cognita and GEMS, which are tapping into demand from both expatriates and a rising domestic middle class in fast-emerging...
...In 2020 Magomedov and associates sought to raise funds from an investor linked to Vladivostok’s governor and DP World to buy out TPG’s stake in Fesco, according to the filing....
...said the head of one Sequoia LP, a sovereign wealth fund....
...In trying to turn the liquidity squeeze to its advantage, the Singapore state fund is emerging alongside fellow sovereign wealth funds such as Saudi Arabia’s sprawling Public Investment Fund and the United...
...the Chinese fund’s decision making and operations....
...To compete, however, OpenAI will need funds. Look at Google, where free cash flow at parent company Alphabet exceeded $60bn in a single year....
...Somerset Capital, a fund boutique focused on emerging markets, has also reported annual results....
...Credit Suisse’s former head of high yield sales Vivek Nahar has joined Deutsche Bank as a director of emerging market credit sales....
...The fund also has real estate debt of $9.9bn that can be liquidated. Through September, operating cash flows were $2.2bn....
...They believe that the bankruptcy process will rid Vice of its maze of financial liabilities, emerging leaner and more attractive to acquirers....
...“Over the past couple of years Sequoia has faced a lot of pressure from the US side on its China business,” said one consultant to LPs in China....
...Terry Smith is to close his £319.4mn emerging markets investment trust, in a blow to the star stockpicker and one of the UK’s best-known fund managers after a spell of weak performance....
...Investment house Abrdn, emerging markets fund group Ashmore and investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown are among listed firms where hedge funds have increased their negative bets this year....
...Matthews Asia is also going down the transparent active equity route, filing in April for three ETFs focused on emerging markets, Asian innovators and China, which build on its existing mutual funds in these...
...“As an emerging fund, market uncertainty hurts us the most during a capital raise — though stats show emerging managers, especially women, are outperforming,” says Gayatri Sarkar, founder of Advaita Capital...
...Russia/Ukraine: ‘investors are on the back foot’ At a briefing on Wednesday afternoon in London to discuss the outlook in emerging markets, executives at Ashmore, an investment house specialising in developing...
...Having last year closed the largest distressed investment vehicle of its kind — its $16bn “opportunities” fund — Oaktree has deployed cash in emerging markets around the world, including bailing out the...
...The fund has been expanding into the casino sector since 2019 when it acquired the real estate assets of the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas from MGM....
...Cobbold told the FT last month that “an emerging Champions League of gyms”, including PureGym, had an opportunity to innovate and expand....
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