TPG-Angelo Gordon’s Combined AUM Is $208 Billion Private equity asset manager TPG Inc. is acquiring Angelo Gordon, a $73 billion credit and real estate investment firm via a cash and equity transaction valued at approximately $2.7 billion, officials say. Acquiring Angelo Gordon “marks a significant expansion into credit investing for TPG, establishing additional levers to… Read More >>
Pershing Offers RIAs New Bridge to Alternatives
Pershing’s API Links to CAIS & iCapital Network Clearing and custody services provider BNY Mellon Pershing has just launched enterprise-wide, application programming interface (API) capabilities to two alternative investment sponsors, CAIS and iCapital Network, underscoring Pershing’s efforts to help registered investment advisors (RIAs) connect to the alternative investments space, officials say. CAIS and startup iCapital… Read More >>
SEC Probe Spurs Firm to Revamp MNPI Policies
Private equity firm Ares Management is settling with the SEC over charges that it lacked proper policies and procedures to oversee the handling of “material nonpublic information [MNPI],” a.k.a. insider information, according to the regulator’s order. The case revolves around the firm’s representation on a board of directors “of a listed issuer” in the Ares investment… Read More >>
Advisors, Institutional Investors Diverge on Alternatives
A new survey by Barron’s and market research firm Morningstar has revealed some slippage between how financial advisors and large institutions view alternative investments, officials say. “Financial advisors are increasingly enthusiastic about alternatives just as institutions are becoming more cautious,” says Josh Charlson, chartered financial analyst (CFA), director of manager research for alternative strategies at… Read More >>
How to Spot and Avoid the Next Madoff
Operational risk is a sprawling, difficult and highly technical field, as many of the speakers and attendees at Financial Technologies Forum’s recent OpRisk NY event can attest. But one area that often gets overlooked amid the jumble of complex models and bureaucratic red tape of OpRisk at larger firms, is how alternative asset managers apply… Read More >>
