In The News
In part one of this two-part series, Baker McKenzie lawyers outline how equity capital markets have come to the rescue of listed companies struggling with the ongoing liquidity crisis.
Despite ongoing global economic uncertainty, major institutional investors remain focused on both the social and environmental impact of their strategies.
Richard Ennis, an early pioneer of quant investing and co-founder of US investment consultancy giant EnnisKnupp, has a simple message for fund trustees: Liquidate your alternative investments and put the proceeds into index funds.
In the second quarter of 2020, the funded positions of defined benefit plans recovered almost half of the losses incurred during the coronavirus crash of the first quarter, according to Mercer’s pension health index.
Polish and Czech pension funds as the only ones in OECD countries suffered losses on their investments. The OECD report – the club of the richest countries in the world to which Poland also belongs – shows that Polish Open Pension Funds (OFEs) lost a total of 2.7 percent last year.
CVC Capital Partners has completed a 21.3 billion-euro ($24 billion) fundraising for its eighth flagship fund, people familiar with the matter said, in the private equity industry’s largest new pool of capital so far this year.
The world’s biggest pension fund posted a record loss in the first three months of 2020 after the coronavirus pandemic sparked a global market rout in the period.
Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE), a Bala Cynwyd, Penn.-based private markets asset management firm (NASDAQ: HLNE), closed an impact fund with total capital commitments of more than $95 million.
A $2.5 billion investment firm owned by Richard Parsons and Ronald Lauder received a forgivable loan from the federal government’s small business loan program.
The vast majority (81 per cent) of global pension plan sponsors said they have allocations to some kind of climate change-related funds, according to a new survey from CREATE-Research.
