“Move on From ESG,” Urges Former BlackRock Exec

Paul Bodnar says the backlash against the controversial moniker in the US means it’s time to think beyond the concept.

Sustainable investing has outgrown the catch-all ‘ESG’ label and the financial world should move beyond it, according to former BlackRock global head of sustainable investing Paul Bodnar. That does not mean ditching sustainable investment altogether, as ESG’s political opponents in the US might wish, said Bodnar, who now works for…

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Japan raised $11.8bn in 2023, a 13.4% increase over 2022 which was primarily driven by several substantial private equity fund closures, according to the Alternatives in APAC 2024 report from private markets data provider Preqin. 

Japan’s favourable interest rates and a weaker yen contributed significantly to this growth, pushing private capital deal values to a five-year high of $34.8bn. This figure not only surpassed the previous peak in 2021 but also positioned Japan nearly on par with China as one of the most active private equity markets in the Asia-Pacific region. 

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In his new role, Talma will lead US fundraising efforts and participate in the M&A and exit programme for the firm’s existing portfolio.  

Talma was most recently President and Chief Revenue Officer at QueensField AI Technologies, where he led the development, marketing and sales of AI and quantitative investment products and services to asset managers, TAMPs and RIAs.

He started his career as a banker at JP Morgan, UBS and Crédit Agricole CIB, in Paris and London, executing over $70bn worth of transactions in M&A, debt and equity capital markets and structured finance.

He later served as Head of Investment Banking at HSBC in Saudi Arabia and as Deputy General Manager at Gulf Bank in Kuwait. In 2018, Talma moved to Silicon Valley, executing venture capital investments for family offices and serving as CEO of quantitative investment company Merlyn.AI.

Jolt Capital’s investor relations team is led by Paris-based General Partner and Chief IR Officer Eric Arnould.  

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BGF invests £11.5m in UK leisure and hospitality EPOS solution provider Tevalis

Growth capital investor BGF has invested £11.5m in UK leisure and hospitality EPOS solution provider Tevalis. The deal was led by Rob Johnson and James Baker from BGF’s Yorkshire and North East team.   

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Mapped: The World’s Wealthiest Cities, by Millionaires and Billionaires

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Where are the top destinations for millionaires and billionaires worldwide?

Today, the richest cities in the world are finance and tech hubs, drawing affluent residents to thriving metropolitans. Given the flow of wealth and high demand for prime property, it’s no surprise that these cities have some of the most exclusive residential markets globally.

The above graphic shows the world’s wealthiest cities by the number of millionaires and billionaires, based on data from Henley & Partners annual World’s Wealthiest Cities Report.

Cities with the Most Millionaires and Billionaires

Below, we order the richest cities globally, based on their millionaire population in 2023 (net worth of $1 million USD or more) along with each city’s billionaire population (net worth of $1 billion USD or more):

Rank
(by Millionaires)City/AreaCountryMillionairesBillionaires 1New York City🇺🇸 U.S.340,00058 2Tokyo🇯🇵 Japan290,30014 3The Bay Area🇺🇸 U.S.285,00063 4London🇬🇧 UK258,00036 5Singapore🇸🇬 Singapore240,10027 6Los Angeles🇺🇸 U.S.205,40042 7Hong Kong🇭🇰 Hong Kong SAR129,50032 8Beijing🇨🇳 China128,20043 9Shanghai🇨🇳 China127,20040 10Sydney🇦🇺 Australia126,90015 11Chicago🇺🇸 U.S.124,00024 12Toronto🇨🇦 Canada105,20018 13Frankfurt🇩🇪 Germany102,20016 14Zurich🇨🇭 Switzerland99,30012 15Houston🇺🇸 U.S.98,50020 16Seoul🇰🇷 South Korea97,00024 17Melbourne🇦🇺 Australia96,00010 18Paris🇫🇷 France93,00016 19Geneva🇨🇭 Switzerland85,80015 20Dubai🇦🇪 UAE68,40015

With 340,000 millionaires and 58 billionaires, New York City stands as the world’s wealthiest metropolitan area.

Between 2012 and 2022, the number of high net worth individuals living in the Big Apple increased by 40%, even as the pandemic drove an exodus of wealthy people from the city. Overall, the wealth of New York City’s residents is roughly $3 trillion, more than the GDP of Canada.

Falling in second is Tokyo, boasting a millionaire population of 290,300 residents. Roughly a fifth of the country’s millionaires live in the city.

With one of the fastest growing millionaire populations across this list, The Bay Area ranks in third. Driven by

JPMorgan Chase says its stress test losses should be higher than what the Fed disclosed

JPMorgan Chase said late Wednesday that the Federal Reserve overestimated a key measure of income for the giant bank’s recent stress test, and that its losses under the exam should actually be higher than what the regulator found. The bank took the unusual step of issuing a press release minutes before midnight ET to disclose its response to the Fed’s findings. The error means that JPMorgan might require more time to finalize its share repurchase plan, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon gestures as he speaks during the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on Wall Street firms, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters

JPMorgan Chase said late Wednesday that the Federal Reserve overestimated a key measure of income in the giant bank’s recent stress test, and that its losses under the exam should actually be higher than what the regulator found.

The bank took the unusual step of issuing a press release minutes before midnight ET to disclose its response to the Fed’s findings.

JPMorgan said that the Fed’s projections for a measure called “other comprehensive income” — which represents revenues, expenses and losses that are excluded from net income — “appears to be too large.”

Under the Fed’s table of projected revenue, income and losses though 2026, JPMorgan was assigned $13 billion in OCI, more than any of the 31 lenders in this year’s test. It also estimated that the bank would face roughly $107 billion in loan, investment and trading losses in that scenario.

“Should the Firm’s analysis be correct, the resulting stress losses would be modestly higher than those disclosed by the Federal Reserve,” the bank said.

The error means that JPMorgan might require more time to finalize its share repurchase plan, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. Banks were expected to begin disclosing those plans on Friday after the market closes.

The news is a wrinkle to the Federal Reserve’s announcement yesterday that all 31 of the banks in the annual exercise cleared the hurdle of being able to withstand a severe hypothetical recession, while maintaining adequate capital levels and the ability to lend to consumers and corporations.

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