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Apollo’s Black: ‘Secular tailwinds’ will help push AUM above $600bn

The credit specialist’s AUM hit $331bn at the end of Q4, half of which is in permanent capital vehicles.

3 min read · 30 January 2020

EQT conducts strategic review of credit business

The firm is also on track to open offices in Paris and Sydney before the end of March, according to its latest earnings announcement on Thursday.

2 min read · 23 January 2020

Baring Asia to ramp up Japan dealmaking with seventh flagship

The firm has closed Baring Asia Private Equity Fund VII on its $6.5bn hard-cap.

3 min read · 22 January 2020

Newly launched Deaglo wants to bring FX hedging to the masses

FX hedging may be alien to many CFOs, and it can be obscure and expensive, with an ambiguous payout. But the new cross-border advisory firm says that’s all changed.

5 min read · 21 January 2020

Marks: Good investors don’t pick winners, they pick mispriced opportunities

A good investor is like a good gambler, the financial luminary argues. They focus on process rather than product.

3 min read · 15 January 2020

Blackstone brings in new head for insurance business

Gilles Dellaert will lead Blackstone Insurance Solutions, a part of the business with a lot of growth potential.

2 min read · 14 January 2020

HK regulator: Climate change has 'implications' for investment portfolios

Julia Leung, the Hong Kong financial body's deputy chief exec, says asset managers in Asia tend to focus more on governance than environmental concerns.

3 min read · 14 January 2020

Australian bushfires: PE portfolios and the climate change threat

Carlyle Group portfolio company Accolade Wines is understood to have had 'limited' impact to its vineyards amid the country's worst wildfires in more than a decade.

4 min read · 08 January 2020

Country vs pan-regional funds: Which performs best?

Fund performance data show the former is likelier to deliver better returns in the US and Asia, while Europe’s homogenous nature gives pan-regional strategies the edge.

4 min read · 08 January 2020

Korea’s VIG eyes global exit routes after closing fourth fund

Economic concerns have prompted strategic buyers to become more frugal, paving the way for a greater number of secondary buyouts, according to managing partner Chulmin Lee.

2 min read · 06 January 2020

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