Bloomberg India’s $442 billion asset management industry is finally having to reckon with the passive investing juggernaut. After decades of sluggish growth, the number of accounts invested in index-tracking or exchange-traded funds more than doubled to 5.6 million in the year to April. Passive products now account for nearly a quarter of equity assets under management versus about 16% two …

Bloomberg Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc is increasingly optimistic that it can move beyond the jet-engine issues that have cost it billions of pounds and provided an unwelcome distraction during years of restructuring work. Final fixes to a litany of glitches that plagued the Trent 1000 turbine powering Boeing Co’s 787 Dreamliner should be made this year, engineering and technology director Simon …

Bloomberg Fortress Investment Group agreed to buy Wm Morrison Supermarket Plc for about 6.3 billion pounds ($8.7 billion), trumping an earlier bid from Clayton Dubilier & Rice. The all-cash agreement by a group led by Fortress, a SoftBank Group Corp subsidiary, follows the UK supermarket chain’s rejection of CD&R’s 5.5 billion-pound offer last month. It’s the latest in a flurry …

Bloomberg PT Lion Mentari Airlines is struggling to make payments to lessors on some of its planes, according to people familiar with the matter, as the pandemic tips it ever closer to financial peril. Indonesia’s largest discount carrier has grounded some 25 aircraft because it hasn’t paid lessors that are owed at least $500 million, one of the people said, …

Bloomberg The lucrative North Atlantic flight corridor that links European tourism and business meccas like Paris and London with the US has been starved for traffic for the past 18 months, depriving some of the world’s biggest airlines of revenue from their most profitable journeys. Now carriers including Emirates, United Airlines Holdings Inc and British Airways are gearing up again, …

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Leary said the Irish carrier could almost double its passenger capacity through the rest of the summer as the European Union reopens for travel. Europe’s biggest discount airline expects to attract up to 9 million passengers in July and August compared with 5 million in June and just 1.7 million in May, …

Bloomberg Citigroup Inc joined rivals including UBS Group AG in touting its flexible work policies as a tool that will offer a competitive edge in recruiting and retaining top staff. The lender’s employees will have the option of working from home at least part time, investment banking co-head Manolo Falco said at a virtual press briefing. That will set the …

Bloomberg Morgan Stanley has promoted several technology investment bankers to be the next generation of leadership at one of the investment bank’s most important franchises. The New York-based firm has named Dave Chen co-head of global technology investment banking, alongside current co-heads Michael Grimes and Drew Guevara, according to a memo reviewed by Bloomberg News. A representative for Morgan Stanley …

Bloomberg UBS AG is in talks with Belgian authorities to resolve an investigation into allegations it helped wealthy clients dodge taxes, local prosecutors said. Confirmation of the talks comes after newspaper L’Echo reported that the lender has agreed to pay almost 50 million euros ($60 million) to settle the case and avoid a public trial, citing sources it didn’t name. …

Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) cut bond purchases for the next three months while shifting to a quarterly-buying plan to offer more certainty to markets. The quarterly plan showed a reduction of at least 25 billion yen ($226 million) in purchases of each of the one-to-three, five-to-10 years and 10-to-25 year buckets. Previously, it had only released monthly purchase …