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Business Wire
02-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Partners Group hires Chief Investment Strategist for its Private Wealth and Retirement business
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Partners Group, one of the largest firms in the global private markets industry, has appointed Anastasia Amoroso as Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist for Private Wealth and Retirement. As Chief Investment Strategist, Anastasia will have responsibility for providing macroeconomic, private markets, and portfolio management insights to wealth advisors and individual joins Partners Group from iCapital, where she held the role of Chief Investment Strategist for the last four years. Prior to that, she held senior roles in investment strategy and portfolio management at J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch. Anastasia will be based in New York and will join Partners Group at the end of June. The Chief Investment Strategist appointment is the latest in a series of key leadership hires intended to support the growth of Partners Group's Private Wealth business, particularly in the US. In February, Phil Shankweiler joined Partners Group as Managing Director and Head of RIA Sales, with responsibility for business development in the US RIA market. Phil, who is based in New York, joined the firm from Starwood Capital Group, where he was Head of RIA and Multi-Family Office Fundraising. Prior to that, he held a series of leadership roles in fundraising at Hartford Funds. Prior to this, Heather Grubbs joined as Managing Director and Global Head of Private Wealth Marketing, based in Denver. Heather's previous roles include Head of Marketing Communications at Global Endowment Management, Managing Director in Marketing at Ares Wealth Management Solutions, and Chief Marketing Officer at Black Creek Group. Prior to that, she held senior marketing roles at Fidelity Investments and Janus Capital Group. Last year was a record fundraising year for Partners Group's evergreen programs, which contributed 39% of new AuM to the firm in 2024. Having launched the private markets industry's first evergreen fund in 2001, today Partners Group is a global leader in evergreen offerings with USD 48 billion in AuM across more than 20 funds. Partners Group launched its flagship Global Value SICAV private equity evergreen strategy in 2007, followed in the US by the first private equity 1940 Act Fund in 2009. Today, the two funds are among the largest of their kind with around USD 25 billion in combined client assets. In September 2024, Partners Group announced a strategic partnership with BlackRock to launch a first-of-its kind model portfolio solution streamlining retail wealth access to private equity, private credit, and real assets. Robert Collins, Partner and Head of US Private Wealth, Partners Group, states: 'I am delighted to welcome Anastasia, Phil, and Heather to Partners Group at this exciting time for our Private Wealth business. We have been at the forefront of innovation in this space for more than 20 years, driven by our longstanding commitment to making institutional-quality private markets investments accessible to all investors. With the addressable market anticipated to keep growing, Anastasia, Phil, and Heather all have extremely valuable roles to play in building Partners Group's Private Wealth business.' Partners Group is one of the largest firms in the global private markets industry, with around 1,800 professionals and over USD 150 billion in overall assets under management. The firm has investment programs and custom mandates spanning private equity, private credit, infrastructure, real estate, and royalties. With its heritage in Switzerland and its primary presence in the Americas in Colorado, Partners Group is built differently from the rest of the industry. The firm leverages its differentiated culture and its operationally oriented approach to identify attractive investment themes and to transform businesses and assets into market leaders. For more information, please visit or follow us on LinkedIn.
Sydney Morning Herald
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
‘We all grew up on that movie': How a beloved cartoon went from screen to stage
If you ask Millennials to name the animated films that shaped their childhoods, it's likely quite a few will point to 1997's Anastasia, which builds upon the discredited myth that an eight-year-old Romanov noble survived the Russian Revolution. It's a 20th Century Fox production, not Disney (back when those were separate companies), but it has many of the hallmarks that define a classic Disney animated hit of the '90s: a headstrong princess, talking animal companion, dastardly magical villain and catchy songs that stick in your head for, well, the rest of your life. That last part is due to Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, who wrote the songs for the movie: she the lyrics, he the music. The pair have collaborated for decades on iconic shows including the multi-Tony-Award-winning Ragtime, so when the movie of Anastasia was being adapted into a stage musical, Ahrens and Flaherty were tapped to revisit their work. The brief was to keep the beloved songs that made the movie so memorable, but add new material and bring the whole thing from the world of animation into something more grounded. 'I think we all grew up on that movie,' says Ahrens. 'We were young writers. We went out to Hollywood, we had a big adventure, we did a movie and then 20 years or something passed. And just like all the little girls who loved that animated movie, we grew up. It was so, not only wonderful, but enlightening to have another look at it and to see it's much richer and much, much more emotional than we had thought of it.' The talking bat was gone, as was evil wizard Rasputin, as the stage production took a more adult look at the story. 'It was if we were meeting old friends that we had loved that we had not seen for a very long time, and getting a chance to write for these characters and to flesh them out,' says Flaherty. 'Our leading man, for example, he sings in two small parts of two songs in the film, but he never really had his own moment to tell us who he was and what made him tick. And so we got to write two new songs for that character alone.' It turns out little girls who resonated with the movie in the mid-1990s want to reconnect with their old friends, too. Ahrens remembers clearly the crowd reaction at the show's first performance. 'There were women in the audience dressed like Anastasia, and I nearly lost my mind. They were wearing crowns and wigs and bands, it was incredible. And I realised, oh my God!, these women grew up on this movie ... I began to realise that there was something very profound about the music and about the story that grabbed people as little ones. They've grown up, they've had their own families. Grandmothers come with their daughters, come with their granddaughters.'
The Age
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
‘We all grew up on that movie': How a beloved cartoon went from screen to stage
If you ask Millennials to name the animated films that shaped their childhoods, it's likely quite a few will point to 1997's Anastasia, which builds upon the discredited myth that an eight-year-old Romanov noble survived the Russian Revolution. It's a 20th Century Fox production, not Disney (back when those were separate companies), but it has many of the hallmarks that define a classic Disney animated hit of the '90s: a headstrong princess, talking animal companion, dastardly magical villain and catchy songs that stick in your head for, well, the rest of your life. That last part is due to Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, who wrote the songs for the movie: she the lyrics, he the music. The pair have collaborated for decades on iconic shows including the multi-Tony-Award-winning Ragtime, so when the movie of Anastasia was being adapted into a stage musical, Ahrens and Flaherty were tapped to revisit their work. The brief was to keep the beloved songs that made the movie so memorable, but add new material and bring the whole thing from the world of animation into something more grounded. 'I think we all grew up on that movie,' says Ahrens. 'We were young writers. We went out to Hollywood, we had a big adventure, we did a movie and then 20 years or something passed. And just like all the little girls who loved that animated movie, we grew up. It was so, not only wonderful, but enlightening to have another look at it and to see it's much richer and much, much more emotional than we had thought of it.' The talking bat was gone, as was evil wizard Rasputin, as the stage production took a more adult look at the story. 'It was if we were meeting old friends that we had loved that we had not seen for a very long time, and getting a chance to write for these characters and to flesh them out,' says Flaherty. 'Our leading man, for example, he sings in two small parts of two songs in the film, but he never really had his own moment to tell us who he was and what made him tick. And so we got to write two new songs for that character alone.' It turns out little girls who resonated with the movie in the mid-1990s want to reconnect with their old friends, too. Ahrens remembers clearly the crowd reaction at the show's first performance. 'There were women in the audience dressed like Anastasia, and I nearly lost my mind. They were wearing crowns and wigs and bands, it was incredible. And I realised, oh my God!, these women grew up on this movie ... I began to realise that there was something very profound about the music and about the story that grabbed people as little ones. They've grown up, they've had their own families. Grandmothers come with their daughters, come with their granddaughters.'
Metro
31-05-2025
- Metro
Schoolgirl, 13, killed after javelin went through her eye in PE lesson pictured
A schoolgirl who died when a classmate threw a javelin towards her has been pictured for the first time. 13-year-old Anastasia Ryzhenko was struck in the eye with a javelin, sending her into a coma from which she never woke up. During a gym class, coach Vladimir Miroshnichenko had paired Anastasia with 16-year-old Timur in Prokhladny, Russia. The coach had 'turned away' when the javelin was thrown, but Timur warned Anastasia when it was too late. Anastasia's mum, Elena, said: 'At that very moment, he threw it, then he called out to her. She raised her head, and the spear hit her in the eye.' Her eye socket was stabbed with the javelin, and her jaw also broke, sparking internal bleeding into her lungs, her mum said. An investigation has been launched by the Russian Investigative Committee. Tributes have been shared online for young Anastasia, who would have celebrated her 14th birthday today. Mum Elena shared gratitude for the first responders and doctors who tried to save Anastasia. More Trending But she added: 'The boy's mother does not admit her son's guilt at all,' said Elena. During all this time, she never came. And the coach didn't come, only on the day of the funeral. 'As a mother, I would have crawled on my knees pleading: 'Forgive me, excuse me, maybe I can help, let me at least take you there?' The Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement: 'The investigation has studied all the circumstances of the incident, interrogated eyewitnesses, employees of the sports school and the relevant ministry, seized documentation regulating the procedure for conducting field training sessions and ensuring safety, and other measures are being taken to collect evidence. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: At least 13 newborns trafficked abroad to 'infertile' parents for £510,000 MORE: Russian court bans memes portraying Putin as modern-day Hitler MORE: Ex-CIA chief reveals where in Europe he thinks Putin will invade next
Russia Today
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Russia Today
Ukrainians up in arms over author of ‘mail-order bride Elena Zelenska' novel
A Ukrainian publishing house has destroyed books by American romance writer Sophie Lark, who was accused of praising Russia and disparaging Ukrainians. The Kharkov-based publisher KSD canceled the release of the Ukrainian translation of Lark's novel Brutal Prince following an outcry on social media. Ukrainian bloggers took issue with her 2024 'romantic thriller' Monarch, whose main character is named Elena Zelenska – almost like the real-life wife of Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, Elena Zelenskaya. In the novel, Zelenska is described as 'the world's most unlikely mail-order bride,' according to the book's description on Amazon. Other users claimed the author was 'romanticizing the Russian mafia' in her other books and depicting Crimea as Russian territory. Some labeled Lark 'a fan of Russia,' accused her of promoting 'pro-Russian' narratives, and claimed she called for 'the murder of Cossacks' in her novel Anastasia, which centers on the Russian imperial Romanov dynasty. In a statement issued on Friday, KSD admitted that the decision to publish Lark's book 'was a mistake.' 'After thoroughly examining the situation and not receiving a response from the author, we have decided to destroy all 30,000 copies of the book and cancel the contract for the entire six-book series,' the publisher said on Facebook. 'It is important for us to remain responsible not only in our publishing decisions, but also in our moral principles.' Ukraine has banned multiple books, films, and songs under its laws prohibiting 'the propaganda of Russian imperial policies.' It has also removed monuments and renamed streets as part of its 'de-Communization' and 'decolonization' campaigns. The government recently announced plans to remove Russian writers, poets, and composers from the school curriculum. In March, US publisher Bloom Books pulled Lark's novel Sparrow and Vine after some readers described parts of the dialogue as racist and criticized lines in which characters praised tech billionaire Elon Musk. Lark apologized at the time, saying she had intended to write 'flawed' characters.
