Millennium in trading deal talks with external hedge fund

Izzy Englander’s Millennium Management is in discussions to invest billions of dollars with Schonfeld Strategic Advisers in a rare partnership deal between two industry heavyweights, according to people familiar with the matter. Schonfeld, with about $13 billion of assets under management, would handle money for Millennium, which oversees about $60...

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Advisor decisions relying more on home office models, survey says

Most financial advisors base investment decisions on home office models, with new data showing that the profession continues to move more toward planning and customer service. With a surfeit of models available from home offices and third parties such as asset managers, asset allocation is now all but commoditized, according...

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Massachusetts fines Fidelity $750,000

Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin fined Fidelity Brokerage Services $750,000 over the company’s alleged past practice of “rubber-stamping” clients’ applications to trade options, according to a statement from Galvin’s office. Galvin, long an unpopular figure in the retail securities industry because of his wide powers over Wall...

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Goldman Sachs partners with Canadian DB pension plan for private credit opportunity

Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Canadian DB pension plan OMERS will jointly invest in private credit opportunities in Asia Pacific having established a new partnership. The separately managed account will be managed by the private credit Asia unit of Goldman Sachs with a dedicated team in the region, part of...

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Investors brace for severe US office crash

Office prices in the U.S. are due for a crash, and the commercial real estate market faces at least another nine months of declines, according to Bloomberg’s latest Markets Live Pulse survey. About two-thirds of the 919 respondents surveyed by Bloomberg believe that the U.S. office market will only rebound after a severe collapse. An even...

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Fund managers face disrupted flows into EU amid ESG overhaul

Asset managers selling funds into the European Union risk having client flows “meaningfully” disrupted as regulators in the bloc consider a major overhaul of ESG investing rules, according to analysts at Barclays Plc. The EU Commission opened the door to a wholesale review of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation last month, when...

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