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6 days ago |
citywire.com | Joseph Eden |John Schaffer |Chris Sloley
Private markets asset managers are struggling with more stringent reporting requirements from their investors. According to an MSCI survey, 41% of large general partners (GPs) and 33% of small GPs cited client-specific reporting requirements as a top challenge. Nearly 20% of large GPs viewed reporting as ‘overly complex and time-consuming’. The survey of nearly 100 fund firms defined small firms as those with assets of between $1-5bn, and larger firms with $5bn plus. Already have an account?
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1 week ago |
citywire.com | Chris Sloley
Institutional asset owners are being forced to rethink their asset allocation mixes, as well as how they approach both ‘ESG’ as a term and regulation as a moving target, while also looking at a world beyond net-zero targets. Those were found to be the four topics dominating discussion as part of Morningstar Indexes and Sustainalytics’ fourth annual deep dive into the thinking of asset owners, which took the form of 25 in-depth, one-on-one interviews.
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2 weeks ago |
citywire.com | Chris Sloley
Aberdeen Investments has announced Pruksa Iamthongthong will step into the hotseat as head of Asia-Pacific equities when Flavia Cheong retires at the end of the year. Cheong has been with the asset manager in Singapore since 1996 and intends to bow out just shy of 30 years with the firm. She also holds a seat on the Aberdeen Asian equities portfolio construction ‘pod’, which also includes Iamthongthong.
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2 weeks ago |
citywire.com | Chris Sloley
Aegon Asset Management has expanded its alternative investment coverage with a new strategy designed to capitalise on the growing interest around capital call finance. The Luxembourg-domiciled Aegon Capital Call Finance fund is available to institutional investors in Europe and the UK. It is a Reserved Alternative Investment Fund (RAIF), the Dutch group said. The core of the fund will be designed to operate with an investment grade risk profile and short maturity.
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2 weeks ago |
citywire.com | Chris Sloley
Mirabaud Asset Management is set to close both its Asia Ex Japan and Global Emerging Markets funds and roll them into a broader global equity strategy, which the Swiss group says will give shareholders a wider playing field of investible ideas. According to a shareholder letter seen by Citywire, the Mirabaud Asia Ex Japan fund, which has $47m in assets, will be rolled into the Global Focus fund, which currently operates with €159m ($179m) in assets under management.
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