(Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is considering enforcement action against United States Oil Fund LP, the largest crude oil exchange-traded fund, due to statements made after oil prices plunged into negative territory in April. The Unite... More »
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank expects a pending European Union stimulus scheme to favour grants over loans in the funding mechanism it uses to help kick-start the bloc’s economies, bank president Christine Lagarde said on Thursday. Leaders of... More »
(Reuters) – The United States Oil Fund LP, the largest oil-focused exchange-traded product (ETP) in the country, is moving to spread out its investments in oil futures in response to extreme market turbulence, it said in a filing here on Wednesday. USO said it... More »
(Reuters) – U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group Inc (BX.N) has secured $3.4 billion from investors for its first fund dedicated to investments in the life sciences sector, targeting $4.6 billion in total, a regulatory filing showed on Thursday. At its ta... More »
(Reuters) – U.S. private equity firm KKR & Co Inc is seeking to raise $1.5 billion for its third special situations fund, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. KKR Special Situations Fund III, which was registered with regulators in June, will acquir... More »
(Reuters) – U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group Inc said on Wednesday it has raised the largest ever real estate fund, amassing $20.5 billion to be invested in property assets around the world. Large buyout firms such as Blackstone have been attracting a... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May will on Monday set out plans for a 1.6 billion pound ($2.11 billion) fund to help to boost economic growth in Brexit-supporting communities with ministers denying it was a bribe to win support for her EU ex... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – The head of the state-backed $18 billion Japan Investment Corp (JIC), Masaaki Tanaka, said on Monday he and eight other board members would resign citing distrust of the trade ministry after a dispute over their pay. The resignations throw in... More »
(Reuters) – London-based investment firm Centricus has partnered with Chinese firms China Merchants Group and SPF Group to launch a 100 billion Chinese yuan ($15.11 billion) fund to invest in technology companies, the three companies said on Sunday. The fund w... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – A venture capital fund dedicated to finding new ways to prevent and treat dementia has raised $350 million, far exceeding the initial target of $200 million set on its launch in 2015. The global Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF), an initiative o... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A company behind U.S.-based funds tied to Wall Street’s “fear gauge” is making changes to its investment strategy after a sudden market plunge this month routed traders betting on the complex instrument. Investors’ once-profitable wagers o... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An investor on Friday filed a lawsuit against managers of a U.S. mutual fund that relied heavily on a strategy that profits from calm markets but lost four-fifths of its value in turmoil this week. In a complaint seeking class-action statu... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. mutual fund that relied heavily on a strategy that profits from calm markets has shut its doors to new investment after losing more than four-fifths of its value in recent market turmoil, filings showed on Thursday. The once-$800 mi... More »
FILE PHOTO: T. Boone Pickens, CEO of BP Capital, speaks on a panel at the annual SkyBridge Alternatives Conference (SALT) in Las Vegas May 7, 2015. REUTERS/Rick Wilking (Paragraph 6 of this JAN. 12 story has been corrected after HSBC said the Andurand Commodit... More »
Hong Kong-based Baring Private Equity Asia is aiming to raise $6 billion in a new Asian fund, as investors hungry for growth in emerging markets fuel a regional fund-raising bonanza, five people with knowledge of the matter said. More »
BlackRock Inc's (BLK.N) largest mutual fund hiked its exposure to "select names" in energy as the sector has lagged this year, one of its portfolio managers said on Thursday. More »
LaSalle Investment Management Inc has set a new capital-raising target of $1 billion for the fifth of its pan-Asia opportunistic real estate funds, one of which is expected to significantly outperform a target annual return of 18 percent, the unit of Jones Lan... More »
Egypt's Beltone Financial will launch a $1 billion investment fund in fixed income instruments in September, its chief executive officer told Reuters on Monday. More »
FILE PHOTO – Nelson Peltz speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, California October 25, 2016. Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management LP said on Monday it was seeking a seat for its billionaire chief executive at Procter & Gamble Co’s (PG.N) board as... More »
FILE PHOTO: A Bitcoin (virtual currency) paper wallet with QR codes and a coin are seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France May 27, 2015. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo A company built around the research of Craig Wrigh... More »
FILE PHOTO – The logo of Dow Jones Industrial Average stock market index listed company Procter & Gamble (PG) is seen on a tube of toothpaste in Los Angeles, California, United States, April 25, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Trian Fund Management LP disclosed a... More »
The BlackRock logo is seen outside of its offices in New York City, U.S., October 17, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Bob Shearer, who manages one of BlackRock Inc’s largest funds, is planning to leave the world’s biggest asset manager later this year, executiv... More »
FILE PHOTO: Turkish lira banknotes are seen in this photo illustration shot January 7, 2014. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/Illustration/File Photo Turkey’s new sovereign wealth fund is more akin to a national development bank, with its design suggesting an effort to cre... More »
FILE PHOTO – Customers use computers at an internet cafe in Hefei, Anhui province March 16, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer China has set up a 100 billion yuan ($14.55 billion) fund to support investment in the internet sector, said official news agency Xinhua on Sunda... More »
Shadows of journalists are reflected on a wall next to WHO’s logo at a news conference in Beijing, China, March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon By Nita BhallaNEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Eleven countries in South and East Asia on Friday agreed to ... More »
DUBAI Saudi Arabia aims to create the world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund, a $2 trillion behemoth that can throw its weight around global markets, but the fund’s growth abroad is likely to be slowed by its responsibility for aiding the economy at home. Build... More »
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