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- Sixth Street partners with Northwestern for $13B in ABS
- Capital Group and KKR enter into strategic partnership for alternatives, private credit, and beyond
- Aflac gets into private credit with 40% stake in Tree Line Capital
- Brookfield acquires majority stake in asset-based private credit firm Castlelake – another david and goliath partnership.
- BNY partners with CIFC on private credit
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Category Archives: management
McKinsey Discusses North American Asset Management AUM and Challenges Ahead
McKinsey in its latest industry study, “Beyond the Rubicon: Asset Managment in an era of unrelenting change”, discusses structural transitions, macroeconomics, and further growth ahead. Read the full study McKinsey: Beyond the Rubicon. The 34-page report discusses five strategic questions: … Continue reading
Posted in Asset managment, consulting, distribution, management
Tagged asset management, assets, aum, consulting, growth, mckinsey, mutual funds
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Calling $24 billion in net gains “subpar”… Warren Buffett’s secrets of communication
“A number of good things happened at Berkshire last year (including $24 billion in net gains), but let’s first get the bad news out of the way.” That’s how Buffett starts his 2012 annual letter to shareholders. His top three … Continue reading
Posted in alternatives, beauty, Brand, cash flows, consulting, E&A, Enskat, Enskat Associates, information delivery, lifestyle, management, Warren Enskat
Tagged annual report, asset management, berkshire hathaway, cash flows, communication, fun, insurance, investment management, m&A, warren buffett, warren enskat
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Monaco Fund Forum 2013: Lights, Camera, Action…
Where to begin… the Monaco Fund Forum International 2013, the largest asset management conference in the world, was another milestone. Featuring Sir Bob Geldof along with hundreds of CEOs worldwide, conference director Jenny Adams went out on a limb and … Continue reading
Posted in alternatives, apps, asia, beauty, black swans, Brand, cash flows, consulting, distribution, E&A, Enskat Associates, information delivery, institutional investor, investment banking, lifestyle, management, multi-convergence, SWFs, UCITS, Warren Enskat
Tagged asset management, brand, dance, enskat associates, FFI13, fund forum, institutional investors, monaco, mutual funds, nyu, strategic insight, warren enskat, WEG
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Largest pension fund worldwide, GPIF, increases equities and foreign allocations
The largest pension fund globally, Japan’s GPIF, is increasing equity allocations and foreign investments at the expense of fixed income to move into riskier assets. It’s part of what the media has called “Abenomics”, the not too creative neologism of … Continue reading
Posted in alternatives, Brand, cash flows, E&A, enskat associates, institutional investor, institutions, management, money, multi-convergence, pension funds, regulation, Warren Enskat
Tagged Abenomics, asset allocation, asset management, bonds, enskat, enskat associates, equities, GPIF, institutional investors, investing, japan, Pension Funds, stocks, warren
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Changing paradigm for HNW investing: don’t bring sand to the beach
Younger HNW investors are much more comfortable investing in tangible assets than in stocks and other traditional asset classes. U.S. Trust in its annual Wealth and Worth study discovers a number of surprising and counterintuitive trends among HNW investors. For … Continue reading
Posted in alternatives, Brand, Brazil, Chile, consulting, E&A, enskat associates, information delivery, institutional investor, investment banking, iPad, lifestyle, management, money, multi-convergence, pension funds, private banking, professional fund buyers, wealth management
Tagged convergence, E&A, enskat associates, hnw, infrastructure, stocks, tangible assets, ultra high net worth, us trust, Wealth, wealth management
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Multi-Convergence: BlackRock buys private equity real estate specialist MGPA – Asia focus
The era of multi-convergence. We have seen KKR/Schwab, GCS/ICBC/Dexia, Franklin Templeton/K2, Principal/Liongate, and many more examples of traditional and alternative convergence. This week BlackRock bought private equity real estate firm MGPA to boost its Asia and Europe presence, doubling its … Continue reading
Posted in alternatives, asia, black swans, Brand, cash flows, Chile, consulting, E&A, EFAMA, Enskat Associates, information delivery, institutional investor, management, multi-convergence, pension funds, private equity, SWFs, wealth management
Tagged alternatives, asia, asia-pac, blackrock, E&A, enskat associates, investment management, larry fink, m&A, mark mccombe, mgpa, private equity, real estate, warren enskat
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Few surprises in European Pension Fund Asset Allocation: Equities down, Alternatives Up
The latest Mercer data on European pension funds and their asset allocation shows an aggregate decrease in equities from 43% to 39%, and over half of them now have alternatives allocations (UK leads the way with 75%). In other words, … Continue reading
Posted in alternatives, asia, cash flows, consulting, E&A, Enskat Associates, information delivery, institutional investor, investment banking, management, multi-convergence, pension funds, private banking, private equity
Tagged agriculture, alternatives, asset allocation, consultants, emd, emerging markets, enskat associates, equities, european pension funds, fixed income, Mercer, Pension Funds, warren enskat
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Multi-Convergence continues: Schroders and the Cazenove deal
After buying US fixed income manager STW in December, Schroders greets spring with the acquisition of Cazenove. With distribution convergence, from retail to mass affluent, high net worth and institutional, Schroders added the queen and an old UK private banking … Continue reading
Posted in alternatives, black swans, Brand, cash flows, Enskat, enskat associates, institutional investor, investment banking, management, multi-convergence, private banking, professional fund buyers, UCITS, wealth management
Tagged Cazenove, Dobson, E&A, enskat associates, multi-convergence, schroders, stw, Tosato
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Principal is buying majority stake in hedge fund manager. Alternatives, LatAm and more in E=MC2
E=MC2 The era of multi-convergence for investment management. A very important convergence trend for traditional asset managers has been to build up expertise in alternatives, to present holistic investment solutions and asset allocation views to institutional clients around the world. … Continue reading
Posted in alternatives, black swans, Brand, Chile, consulting, distribution, E&A, EFAMA, Enskat, enskat associates, institutional investor, institutions, Latin America, management, multi-convergence, pension funds, professional fund buyers, SWFs
Tagged asset management, CEO, cuprum, E&A, enskat, hedge funds, Liongate, McCaughan, multi-convergence, principal, retirement
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Multiconvergence: Orix buys Robeco for distribution and global brand
I am finishing a week of CEO discussions in Europe and, before flying back to NY, Orix just announced the acquisition of 90.01% of Robeco equity from Rabobank for about two billion Euros (240 billion yen) to expand the global … Continue reading
Posted in alternatives, asia, Brand, cash flows, distribution, E&A, enskat associates, institutional investor, institutions, management, Middle East, multi-convergence, pension funds, private banking, professional fund buyers, SWFs, UCITS, wealth management
Tagged asset management, brand, distribution, enskat, expansion, global, japan, m&A, Orix, Robeco
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