| | | | | Investors favored lower-risk U.S. bond exposure during the latest week, Lipper data showed on Thursday, as trade conflicts, an emerging market crisis and contradictory economic news spoiled the idea of a smooth sprint through the second half of the year. | | |
| | | The founders of Diamondback Capital, one of a handful of hedge funds touched by the U.S. government's insider trading probe, have reunited and are working on a new investment project, people familiar with the matter said. | | |
| | | First Reserve Management LP is seeking to raise $3 billion for a new buyout fund, making it the latest energy-focused private equity firm moving to capitalize on an oil price recovery that is fuelling new investor appetite for the sector, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. | | |
| | | Fidelity Investments is winding down a fund that had more than $3 billion in assets last year, with the Boston-based money manager citing an overlap in holdings of other funds used in its target-date products to explain the rare move. | | |
| | | Standard Chartered is parting ways with three senior Asia-focused bankers and possibly with some mid- and junior-level bankers, as the British lender moves ahead on a plan to cut costs and revamp its industry coverage, two sources said. | | |
| | | An Australian life insurer paid a private investigator who covertly filmed a mentally-ill woman eating breakfast, holding hands with her partner and undressing at a swimming pool in a bid to find evidence to avoid paying her claim, an inquiry into finance sector misconduct heard on Thursday. | | |
| | | Investment firm iM Global Partner bought a stake in Dynamic Beta investments, a U.S. firm that tries to duplicate large hedge funds' strategies but for far lower fees. | | |
| | | Both approaches have advocates when it comes to a critical retirement security goal: getting more workers at small businesses to save for retirement. | | |
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