Opalesque Roundtable: Managers add flexibility to co-investment terms... [more]Fund managers have become more flexible when it comes to co-investments, but that doesn't mean it's a free for all. Delegates at the recent Opalesque Co-Investing Roundtable discussed how they structure terms to maintain confidentiality and ensure fair and equitable treatment.
"Given the
UK Treasury Committee: "Wild West" crypto-assets should be regulated... [more]Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: A British parliamentary committee has called on the government of UK to introduce regulation to protect investors from the current "Wild West" situation in the crypto-asset market.
The Treasury Committee published a unanimously-agreed report on crypto-assets for i
UBS Investor Watch: US investors trail all other countries in adoption of sustainable investing... [more]Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: US-based investors were the slowest to adopt sustainable investment, UBS' latest Investor Watch report claims, with just 12% making any form of green investment.
"The US investors surveyed trail all other countries surveyed in adoption of sustainable investing
Hedge funds' pain at NXP can be others' gain... [more]From WSJ: There is something wrong at NXP and it is not the company's business but its shareholders. Long-term investors could profit from this anomaly.
Shares in the world's top automotive chip maker have tumbled by almost a quarter since early June, when its deal with Qualcomm started to unra
Impact investors shoot for clearer goals... [more]From FT: Giles Gunesekera, a 20-year asset management veteran, was approached by an Australian pension fund last year with a tantalising offer. The fund wanted to give his company A$1bn ($727m) to invest in a strategy that would have positive outcomes for women and girls. For a start-up like Gunesek
Outlook: How emerging market turmoil is affecting central banks in Africa... [more]From Bloomberg: Central banks around Africa -- poised to reveal their first response to the emerging-market turmoil of the past month -- are likely to usher in an end to the continent's easing cycle.
There's a week to go before the U.S. Federal Reserve delivers what could be its third interes
Activists: Nestlé plans to sell or spin off skin health unit... [more]From FT: Nestlé has announced plans to either spin off or sell its skin health business, in a move which will fuel expectations it is gearing up to dispose of its €26bn stake in France's L'Oréal.
US investor Daniel Loeb, whose Third Point activist hedge fund a year ago revealed a 1.25 p
And, finally: Collateral damage of killing one mosquito... [more]From Global Times: An East China man had to replace his BMW car's windscreen, which was damaged as he tried to kill a mosquito sitting on it on September 11. The car owner surnamed Lou from Jiaxing, East China's Zhejiang Province, pushed a napkin on his windscreen with five fingers to kill the mosq
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Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Bill Michaelcheck, founder and CIO of Mariner Investment Group, an alternative asset manager headquartered in New York, believes the market has turned a corner and that volatility is here to stay. Now is a good time for fixed income investors to do arbitrage bet..
