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Institutional investors are on the verge of a huge opportunity in private debt, as assets migrate out of the banking system, according to Thierry Adant, who joined Newmarket Capital this week as its chief investment officer.
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US direct lender Owl Rock has hired its first employee in London, as it seeks to develop its business in Europe. -
The resignation of Jean Pierre Mustier as group CEO on Monday night has laid bare deep fissures between the senior management of UniCredit, which has been focused on serving the interests of shareholders, and members of its board, which want to reposition the bank as a servant of the Italian economy.
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Jean Pierre Mustier will retire as CEO of UniCredit in April, the bank announced this evening, as the board no longer agrees with his strategy. The change could mean UniCredit pivots towards Italian priorities and political influence.
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Veteran equity analyst and forensic accountant Steve Clapham believes it is stories that drive investment decisions and seldom cold analysis of financial accounts. But he believes it is hard to find a company which isn’t engaged in some level of financial wrongdoing and argues that auditors are blind to it, wilfully or otherwise.
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There is every reason to be sceptical of the UK’s plan for a national infrastructure bank. Infrastructure is hard to finance because governments are unreliable. Combining hard assets expected to pay back over 30 years with democratic governments that change course every few makes private investors reluctant to treat long-term infra projects as a pure matter of credit risk.
