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...When it launches, BXPE will compete against products managed by competitors including Partners Group, Hamilton Lane and StepStone Group....
...After a decade of low volatility in government bonds markets, central bank rate jumps and rising inflation have made macro trading potentially very profitable for hedge funds....
...A new generation of venture capital groups, such as Ara Partners and Energy Impact Partners, has also emerged, placing sustainable investment goals and decarbonisation at the centre of their strategy....
...to LPs by improperly billing hundreds of thousands of personal expenses....
...It has already obtained a qualified foreign investor licence, which gives it access to additional Chinese futures contracts. The firm declined to comment....
...Buyout funds, which have benefited enormously from a lucrative mix of low interest rates and high valuations, now face higher funding costs, increased market volatility and a scarcity of new investor cash...
...There’s a chance that Franklin’s past chasing risky bond deals wasn’t for nothing: inflation, rising rates and growing volatility have fuelled whispers of an active management comeback....
...We might sum up the issues as follows: Institutional investors like private capital because soft marks give the (mostly spurious) appearance of low volatility, which leads to better risk-adjusted reported...
...We need to do that with partners . . . through value-chain partnerships — so, looking at the totality of food production, all the way to the consumers....
...Yields on the 10-year US Treasury note, meanwhile, have dropped from 1.47 per cent going into last week to a low of 1.02 per cent on Tuesday....
...Low interest rates have created such demand for higher-yielding debt that buyout groups are increasingly able to load companies they own with fresh loans and use the money to pay themselves dividends....
...equity funds and added a record $16bn to its stock of unspent cash in the three months ending June 30, becoming the latest Wall Street group to reveal standout results as markets surged back from March lows...
...He was formerly a senior partner at Dechert....
...MarketAxess qualified for the S&P 500 index of the biggest US companies last year and, from a mid-March low, its shares have risen more than 60 per cent, giving it a market capitalisation of $17.3bn....
...On Wednesday, The Carlyle Group became the latest large alternative asset manager to partner with an insurer, announcing a tie-up with AIG....
...Volatility in the oil prices will shape the development of euro area headline inflation next year....
...“We believe ISS set too low a standard for adding an activist investor to a board and we fundamentally disagree with its conclusion....
...Continued volatility in crude prices has often made it difficult to reach agreement on valuations....
...The potential for future volatility, depending on oil and gas prices and interest rates, is still there....
...The numbers were made to add up by selling the Sunoco retail business to its affiliate Sunoco LP for $2.2bn, and by issuing units worth $1.1bn....
...Rock-bottom yields from government bonds and destabilising bouts of volatility in equity markets have pushed institutional investors to invest ever more money with alternative investment managers in the...
...It is becoming less of an issue partly because it appears interest rates are going to stay low for an extended period of time....
...The US dollar index, which gauges the greenback’s performance against the currencies of six of America’s biggest trading partners, was poised to end May up by 2.9 per cent, the biggest climb since the 3.3...
...Some are reducing the amount of cash in the deal and loading up on a euro-denominated mortgage to reduce the risks of sterling volatility....
...In a sign of the tumult on Wall Street, the CBOE’s VIX index, a measure of expected S&P 500 volatility over the next 30 days, shot up 11.7 per cent to 21.6....
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