by Sebastian | Nov 13, 2020 | News
Ten titans that each oversee more than $5tn will emerge as the asset management industry’s dominant players by the end of the decade as size becomes a critical driver of success for investment companies globally. Only half of the fund industry’s current asset...
by Sebastian | Nov 13, 2020 | News
Brookfield Asset Management Inc. is launching a reinsurance business and plans to distribute shares in the new entity to its investors in the form of a $500 million special dividend. Bruce Flatt, Brookfield’s chief executive officer, said in a letter to...
by Sebastian | Nov 13, 2020 | BPEC, News
BC Partners is set to acquire the Amsterdam-headquartered puzzle book publisher Keesing Media Group from Belgian investment firm Ergon Capital and media company Mediahuis. The firm declined to disclose financial details, but a person familiar with the situation...
by Sebastian | Nov 13, 2020 | News, UKPEC
Private equity firm Hillhouse Capital Group is in talks to take property developer SOHO China Ltd private, said four people with knowledge of the matter, in a deal that could be worth more than $2 billion and accentuate a trend in Hong Kong. Asia-focused Hillhouse has...
by Sebastian | Nov 13, 2020 | News, UKPEC
Ruth Baker has an urgent deadline. The graphic designer and her husband are desperate to buy a four-bedroom house they have found in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, by mid-January so they can apply for a primary school place for their three-year-old son. First, however, they...
