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Latest News in Asset Management

  • May 18, 2026

    Ropes Steers Bain Capital's Above-Target $10.5B Asia Fund

    Ropes & Gray LLP-advised private equity giant Bain Capital has wrapped fundraising on its sixth Asia-focused fund after securing $10.5 billion in total capital.

  • May 18, 2026

    American Express Hit With 401(k) Target-Date Fund Suit

    Former American Express workers hit the credit card giant with a proposed class action in New York federal court, alleging that underperforming target-date and other investment funds in the company's 401(k) plan — with approximately $9 billion in assets and 40,000 participants — lost workers hundreds of millions in future savings.

  • May 18, 2026

    SEC Ends 'Gag Rule' Policy For Enforcement Settlements

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday scrapped a decades-old enforcement policy that prohibited settling parties from denying the agency's allegations against them, saying the policy made it appear as though the SEC was trying to "shield itself from criticism."

  • May 18, 2026

    Justices Turn Down PBGC's Bid To Hear Pension Bailout Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to take up the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.'s challenge to a Second Circuit decision that said the agency erred by rejecting the union pension fund's application for a $132 million bailout.

  • May 15, 2026

    Citron Founder Phoned Fed. Agent During FBI Raid, Jury Told

    An inspector with the U.S. Postal Service told a California federal jury considering securities fraud charges against Citron Research founder Andrew Left on Friday that even as she participated in the FBI's raid of his home, Left called her and spoke at length about the allegations against him for over an hour. 

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