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...The asset manager, founded in 2005 by alumni of an alternative investment unit of Cargill that was later rebranded as CarVal, has become a big lender to the airline industry....
...The EU’s move comes as it imposes new scrutiny on the iPhone maker, particularly over the company’s $85bn-a-year services business....
...It will ban Apple’s practice of blocking music services from letting users outside its App Store switch to cheaper alternatives....
...BlackRock was interested in a tie-up with Warburg Pincus because its chief executive Larry Fink had identified alternative investments as a strategic growth area....
...Alternative asset managers have increasingly been helping companies to hive off large infrastructure assets in need of heavy new investment outside of their balance sheets....
...But using the main alternative definition — risk as risk of permanent loss — it is not clear in what sense Berkshire is less risky than the diversified and dynamic S&P index....
...“We think [alternatives] are not going away,” said Franklin Templeton chief executive Jenny Johnson on an earnings call on Monday....
...Marc Lipschultz, the co-founder of Blue Owl, one of Wall Street’s largest alternative asset managers, said it was planning to keep pursuing acquisitions to expand beyond its core business of arranging financing...
...But three years on from the dramatic collapse of Hwang’s Archegos fund, which left several banks nursing huge losses, the government is still struggling to pinpoint a criminal motive behind his alleged scheme...
...BlackRock is seeking to push further into higher-margin alternatives strategies....
...Meta said: “Subscriptions as an alternative to advertising are a well-established business model across many industries . . . We will continue to engage constructively with the Commission.”...
...Margrethe Vestager, the bloc’s competition chief, said the tech giant had broken EU antitrust rules for a decade by “restricting developers from informing consumers about alternative, cheaper music services...
...Younger shoppers’ penchant for Apple Pay, auto-fill payments and buy now, pay later services is eroding the company’s share of the online payment market it once dominated. Growth has sputtered....
...For those who choose to also build apps in alternative stores, Apple said it would cut the highest amount paid by companies using its App Store to sell digital goods and services from 30 per cent to 17 per...
...The money will act as seed capital for a variety of funds invested in public equities and bonds as well as alternative assets, such as private credit and infrastructure....
...Internet service providers would be compelled to block access to TikTok on the web....
...But the majority of its $275bn in alternative assets are in hedge funds, currencies and commodities....
...BlackRock has struck a deal to buy Global Infrastructure Partners for more than $12.5bn in cash and stock, a move that will substantially boost its footprint in alternative assets....
...China’s trade ambition Friction with the west has prompted Beijing to build its own alternative system focused on developing nations, reports the FT in a Big Read....
...As companies tackle digital overhauls of their businesses — from homeworking to customer relationship management — they are increasingly relying on external providers for information technology services...
...The company will also allow users downloading apps from alternative sources to avoid being tracked....
...Much new investor money is flowing into low-cost passive funds or alternative investments, which carry higher fees but also require firms to build new expertise....
...The defections — leading to one of the largest team carve-outs from an alternative asset manager in recent years — also put the future of Barings’ direct lending business in question....
...The term sheet would only go into effect if the iPhone maker is able to find an alternative provider for the two services. The Wall Street Journal first reported the move....
...Chang’s and business technology provider Computer Services Inc....
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