December 2025 – Page 14 – Finance Updates

Fed Signals Cooling Inflation but Challenges Remain: Rate Cuts, Labor & Credibility in Focus

Americas Policy Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

The Fed is cautiously cutting rates while sig...

Quantitative tightening has effectively ended...

FOMC members are split over the pace and scal...

The central bank faces rising political press...

Hedge Funds Near $5T AUM: Trends in Multi-Strategy, Private Markets & Fee Pressure

Global Firms Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

Hedge fund assets are set to surpass $5 trill...

Investor demand is concentrating in multi-str...

Separately managed accounts, expansion into p...

Fee compression, capacity constraints, liquid...

Why Hedge Funds Missed 2025’s Top Stocks Despite Strong Returns

Global Markets Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Many of 2025’s biggest stock winners, includi...

Big hedge funds clustered into a narrow set o...

Smaller and more nimble hedge funds were more...

The pattern highlights the opportunity cost o...

Silver Faces Short-Term Risks Despite Long-Term Bull Case From Demand & Supply Tightness

Americas Risk Utilities

Silver has surged about 156% in 2025 (30% in ...

He cites year-end tax selling, a potentially ...

Industrial substitution risk from cheaper met...

Despite bubble concerns from SocGen and other...

Private Equity Faces Pressure in 2026: Legacy Assets, Exits & Tightening Rules

Americas M&A Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Private equity enters 2026 with a backlog of ...

Dry powder has declined but remains sizable a...

Deal and exit values have rebounded while vol...

Rising LP scrutiny, growing use of continuati...

Balancing Wall Street and the Slopes: Haiti’s Ralf Etienne Blazes a Trail at the Winter Paralympics

Global Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Bank of America associate Ralf Etienne is tra...

He lost a leg in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, r...

Balancing a demanding finance job with intens...

His journey highlights how diaspora athletes,...

SoftBank to Buy DigitalBridge for $4B in Push to Own AI Infrastructure

Global M&A Information

SoftBank will acquire DigitalBridge for about...

DigitalBridge manages about $108 billion in d...

The deal, unanimously backed by DigitalBridge...

SoftBank plans to keep DigitalBridge as a sep...

Private Equity Boosts Maritime Infrastructure: Metalmark’s 2018 Bet on T. Parker Host

Americas M&A Construction

Metalmark Capital made a strategic growth inv...

The deal aims to transform Host from a region...

Host remains majority family-owned under CEO ...

Key uncertainties include undisclosed financi...

Feinstein-Blum Allegations: Allogene Trades, Blind Trusts & Ethics in Senate

Americas Policy Health Care and Social Assistance

In early 2020, Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husban...

Feinstein says the assets were in a blind tru...

The FBI questioned Feinstein, but the Justice...

The episode highlights ongoing concerns about...

Societe Generale Boosts APAC Investment Banking with New Industry Group Leaders

Asia Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Société Générale has appointed David Jiang as...

The role sits within SocGen’s new APAC indust...

Parallel leadership moves include naming Jero...

These changes aim to deepen client relationsh...