Morningstar, Pitchbook Launch Evergreen Private Market Indexes
The offerings are designed to benchmark the performance of nontraded, semi-liquid investments.
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Hamilton Lane, Guardian Announce Long-Term Partnership
The deal is also expected to bring more than $5 billion to Hamilton Lane over 10 years.
Institutions Eye ETF Seeding, but There Are Some Trade-Offs
Institutions are backing exchange-traded funds as anchor investors, but they may have to sacrifice some control to reap the benefits.
IFM Investors, Nest Complete First UK Investments
The allocations come from a Nest-seeded global infrastructure debt fund that IFM is managing.
OMERS’ Bruce Power Completes $1B Inaugural Senior Unsecured Bond Issuance
The issuance from the Ontario pension subsidiary is the largest to date within the Canadian power and utilities sector.
BlackRock AUM Surges Past $13T, Alts Investments Double
The world’s largest asset manager saw year-over-year assets under management grow 17%, while client assets in alternative investments more than doubled due to recent acquisitions.
APG Asset Management Buys Majority Stake in US Forest
The Dutch pension giant acquired a large share of a 270-square-mile woodland area that spans Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi and is worth $462 million
Nuveen Launches Multi-Asset Infrastructure Platform
The manager will bring together specialized teams under unified leadership.
PE Hospital Ownership Led to Increase in Patient Deaths, Research Finds
Emergency room mortality increased after acquisition, a result of cuts to staffing and pay, according to researchers at Harvard Medical School, the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh.
Demand for Data Centers, Energy Creates a Gold Rush for Infrastructure Investors
Asset owners and managers are pouring hundreds of billions into the construction of infrastructure for the AI ecosystem, although the horizon is not entirely clear.
Risk Factors Are Rising in Private Credit, Performance Harder to Predict
Private markets are more sensitive to interest rates, inflation and tariffs, while there are questions about how private credit will hold up in a significant correction.
How Asset Owners Are Thinking About Private Markets
Liquidity requirements reframe the need for diversification.
Achmea IM Launches Private Equity Fund Focused on Nutrition, Healthy Living
The $290 million Healthy People & Planet fund was developed for Dutch institutional investors, with the help of Neuberger Berman.
Measuring Hedge Fund Performance Has Its Limitations
Benchmarks are a key part of the discussion as investors look for ways to quantify the funds’ contributions of different exposures to generate returns.
Trump’s Crypto Working Group Lists Proposals for Broader Digital Finance Adoption
The recommendations in the 166-page report mostly called on agencies to provide clearer rules on trading the assets.