News & Analysis

Lane42 will receive $2bn in seed capital from hedge fund Millennium Management.

Asset Based Term Fund IV held an oversubscribed final close of $1.39bn, higher than its $1bn target.

Asset managers wanting to raise more capital from insurers in Asia need to raise their game, say insurance executives, as the region presents particular hurdles.

BXCI makes a minority investment in the alternatives manager.

The Mansion House Compact was an attempt to address a pressing issue and has encouraged a more proactive stance to private markets – but there are challenges.

The UK’s Phoenix Group is at the forefront of using private markets as a performance driver. Plus: Configure survey identifies key traits in a borrower-friendly lending market; and Blackstone makes new senior hire.

The industry wants to invest in foreign private debt, and given its $4trn-odd in assets, even a small allocation would be a very big deal. Sun Life’s Ben Deng, former CIO of two of China’s biggest insurers, discusses the landscape.

‘We took a long journey of three years of technology investments and regulatory approvals, and today we are the first credit fund approved in Portugal,’ says LX Partners’ Founding partner Vittorio Calvi.