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Private capital

Banking & Finance

Apollo looks to bring private capital to growth tech firms

Ted Maloney, CEO of MFS Investment Management, says the dominance of the Magnificent Seven stocks is "less US exceptionalism" and more AI investment hype.
Wealth & Investing

Time to focus on downside risks in markets: MFS chief

Under the SPV structure, Meta is not borrowing the capital itself, the financing entity is.
Telcos, Media & Tech

Meta, Blue Owl seal US$30 billion private capital deal for AI

MSCI used their newly launched Private Assets Classification Standards (PACS) in this quarter's analysis of private market performance.
Companies & Markets

Private capital roars back in Q2 with strongest returns since 2021: MSCI

Wen Ting Geok, head of private equity of Asia at Mercer Alternatives, believes secondary private equity markets and co-investments can provide a boost to portfolios and enhance returns.
Companies & Markets

Investors urged to ‘recalibrate’ return expectations for private markets

Many private-market investments are still managed on disconnected and inflexible systems, propped up by costly manual data collection. Standardising both data sets and APIs are critical to enabling automation, reducing operational friction and building scalable solutions. 
Wealth & Investing

How collaborative technology is democratising private-markets investing

Retail investors venturing into alternative assets need to be clear about their investment timeframe and liquidity needs, wealth managers say.
Capital Markets & Currencies

Navigating alternative assets – how retail investors can build their private-market portfolios

Asian private banking clients are allocating more of their portfolios to alternative assets, a trend that could continue in the next few years as they seek diversification.
Banking & Finance

Shifting appetite among Asia’s rich could lift investments in alternative assets

Almost every institutional and individual investor believes private markets offer a foolproof way to enhance returns and/or reduce portfolio risk. This is despite mounting evidence that it is unlikely to be true in the future.
Wealth & Investing
INSIGHTS FROM CFA SOCIETY SINGAPORE

Buyer beware: 7 red flags signal a reckoning in private markets

If the mechanisms are cryptocurrency tokens or private contracts, the retail investor capital flowing to private entities is invisible to regulators.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

The public stock market isn’t enough anymore

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