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Crypto Asset Management: Expansion Roadmap for Managers and Investors (Part 1)

JD Supra: Mergers

Asset managers who invest in crypto assets are expanding their footprint as managers of capital for investors. Investors are increasingly seeking out asset managers that have expertise in crypto assets.

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Silicon Valley: A Friend or Foe to Asset Management?

Accenture Capital Markets

The financial services industry—including asset managers—has had an interesting relationship with Silicon Valley. Asset managers should not assume that these tech giants will look past this industry. Asset managers should start to prepare for what is likely to be inevitable disruption.

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Fund finance market—adapting to change

JD Supra: Mergers

Once considered a small, esoteric area of the lending landscape, fund finance—loan facilities secured against investor commitments to private equity (PE) funds and/or fund assets—has grown into a global market worth more than US$600 billion during the last decade, according to asset manager abrdn.

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‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry piles into physical gold fund, making it his biggest bet

CNBC: Investing

Burry, who now manages hedge fund Scion Asset Management, bought more than 440,000 units of the Sprott Physical Gold Trust (PHYS).

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Impax Asset Management to acquire corporate credit business from partner firm Formuepleje Group

The TRADE

Impax Asset Management has entered into an agreement to acquire the corporate credit assets from fixed income manager Absalon Corporate Credit, part of Formuepleje Group. Copenhagen-based Absalon serves European institutional investors and Danish high net worth individuals. The sum has not been disclosed.

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Vanguard announces fee cuts for nearly 100 funds, including ETFs with billions of dollars in assets

CNBC: Investing

The asset manager said this is its biggest fee cut ever and will save investors about $350 million this year.

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Allianz Global Investors taps UBS Asset Management for new head of equity Europe core and value

The TRADE

Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) has appointed Kayvan Vahid as head of equity Europe core and value. Vahid joins AllianzGI from UBS Asset Management where he served in a variety of roles over the last 20 years.