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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

While offices once accounted for over 60% of Blackstones real estate holdings in 2007, they now represent less than 2% of its portfolio. Source: AInvest If you think we missed any important news, please do not hesitate to contact us at news@pe-insights.com. Can`t stop reading?

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JANUARY 14, 2025

Founded in 2007 as Truck Hero by J Pearson , RealTruck was acquired by CCMP Capital Advisors in 2017 and by L Catterton in 2021. In June 2024, Kinderhook closed its Kinderhook Capital Fund 8 LP with $2.75 billion in capital commitments, exceeding its target and closing oversubscribed. Piper Sandler & Co.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Main Street Capital (NYSE: MAIN) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Feb 28, 2025 , 10:00 a.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Greetings and welcome to the Main Street Capital fourth quarter earnings conference call. Image source: The Motley Fool. You may begin. for the quarter.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

Private market secondaries manager Coller Capital has acquired a $1.6bn senior direct lending portfolio from multiline US insurer American National, marking the largest ever LP-led credit secondaries transaction focused on a senior direct lending portfolio. Coller Capital was approved to buy all funds by the underlying GPs.

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JUNE 5, 2024

Buffett has invested that capital to great effect over the years. Bear Market Start Date S&P 500 Maximum Decline Berkshire Hathaway Maximum Decline March 2000 (49%) (24%) October 2007 (57%) (54%) February 2020 (34%) (30%) January 2022 (25%) (27%) Average (41%) (34%) Data source: Yardeni Research, Ycharts. Revenue increased 5.5%

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

One such stock that has been attracting a lot of attention is Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) , which at its current share price yields a massive 8.9%. Why does Ares Capital pay such a high dividend? At its current price of $21.65, Ares Capital only trades at a 10% premium to its net asset value. Should you invest in it today?

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

Cathay Capital Private Equity, a leading international investment firm, announces the final closing of $270 million for its latest growth private equity fund, Small Cap IV, to invest in healthcare, consumer, and technology companies across Europe, North America and Asia.

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JULY 13, 2023

This is enticing to clients because they aren't limited in how they can use capital proceeds to benefit their business, whether for debt reduction or further growth. This level of dividend growth is especially attractive when considering Main Street Capital's dividend yield is a whopping 6.9% -- not counting special dividends, either.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Supermicro went public at $8 per share with a valuation of $229 million in March 2007, but it now trades at about $750 a share with a market cap of $44 billion. From fiscal 2007 to fiscal 2020 (which ended in June 2020), Supermicro's annual revenue grew at a CAGR of 17%. Image source: Getty Images.

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

The 5- and 10-year notes, along with 30-year bonds , are at the highest levels since August 2007. That's because the capital needed to build out these renewable energy businesses just got more expensive. The result was a stampede out of stocks of renewable energy companies like Plug Power.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It strongly suggests that the capital side of the ledger has been a more substantial driver of price increases than previously believed. price growth that characterized the pre-pandemic business cycle of 2007–2019. The post Labor or Capital Driven Inflation? That was June; we now have a lot more data. Has Inflation Peaked? (May

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

If you are an income investor then you have probably seen Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) pop up on a stock screen or two. That said, during the 2007-09 Great Recession , Ares ended up cutting its dividend. That is a big part of the reason why the deep recession from 2007 to 2009 resulted in Ares trimming its dividend. Its huge 9.8%

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Jolt Capital, a private equity firm specialising in European growth investment in European deeptech businesses, has appointed Marie Nicod, an engineer and investor, as Investment Director, based in the firm’s Paris office. Recently served as Investment Director Deeptech at Expansion (2023 to 2024).

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JULY 26, 2024

During its earnings call, CEO Walt Bettinger told investors that Schwab would shrink its bank and use third-party banks to help reduce its capital and funding-related risks. During the next couple of years, the Fed raised its federal funds rate from nearly 0% to 5.25% -- a rate not seen since 2007.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Most American shareholders see their quarterly payments fluctuate with currency exchange rates but the payout has grown every year, in British pounds, since 2007. Ares Capital has a 14-year track record of delivering stable quarterly dividends. The average return on Ares Capital's debt investments rose to 12.5% a year earlier.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

He first purchased shares in 2007, just before the financial crisis of 2008. Buffett might expect capital gains taxes to increase soon. non-tech company to cross the $1 trillion mark in market capitalization, although it has since slipped back under that level. 2 spot behind only Apple. It could be a mixture of all of the above.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

Silver Creek Capital Management, an alternative investment boutique focused on real assets, private credit and absolute return strategies, has appointed Nathan Kelso as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining Silver Creek, Kelso was Chief Information Security Officer at data analytics platform Research Affiliates.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Ares Capital I think Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a great stock to buy with the first one-third of the initial $115,000. Ares Capital offers such a high yield primarily because of its business structure. That's not a problem for Ares Capital. Ares Capital has paid a dividend every quarter for 14 years with no cuts.

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

Its cash flow has also been resilient through the years even during the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, the oil price collapse of 2015 through 2017, and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. billion of major growth-capital projects under construction. Funding the dividend program is one of UPS' top capital-allocation priorities.

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JUNE 20, 2023

Moreover, the dividend has increased every year since 2007. Fortunately, free cash flow excludes capital expenditures (capex). In past decades, slowly evolving technology didn't necessitate heavy capital investments. per share annually, it equates to a dividend yield of around 7.2%.

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MAY 24, 2024

It has taken Lucid time to ramp up production of its EVs, and the company had to raise capital to ensure it has enough funding to keep things going. Lucid focuses on luxury electric vehicles Founded in 2007, Lucid manufactures EVs, explicitly focusing on the luxury niche. per share this year and $1.10 Buy, sell, or hold Lucid?

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JULY 18, 2024

Part of the stock's struggles come from higher interest rates and the impact that has had on commercial property values, which are valued based on capitalization (cap) rates -- a property's net-operating income divided by its current value. It's also grown its net-asset value (NAV) by 130% since 2007. It currently is valued at about 1.19

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 22, 2024

Aptior Capital, a London-based alternative investment manager specialising in stressed credit, distressed debt and rescue finance investments in Europe, is adding Taos Huskey to its senior team in London, effective September 2024. He most recently served as Principal and managed the firm’s $5bn distressed and special situations portfolio.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

As a leader in renewable energy, it's capitalizing on the growing demand for lower-carbon energy. average annual return since its initial public offering in 2007. That leaves a nearly untapped $85 trillion opportunity for Blackstone to capitalize on in the future. A massive untapped opportunity Blackstone has delivered a 12.9%

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Private equity firm Liberty Hall Capital (Liberty Hall) has successfully closed an oversubscribed single-asset continuation fund to support the continued growth of Comply365, a global compliance, safety, and training platform serving the aviation, defence, and rail industries. Liberty Hall acquired the 2007-founded company in December 2020.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Coca-Cola is shareholder-friendly Berkshire Hathaway's investment illustrates that Coca-Cola is dedicated to returning capital to shareholders. For Coca-Cola, the company's commitment to returning capital to shareholders is also one of its most significant risks. It has paid and raised its dividend annually for 61 consecutive years.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Numbers from The Tobacco Atlas indicate the worldwide prevalence of regular smokers has fallen from nearly 23% of the population in 2007 to around 17% now; sheer population growth has kept the absolute number of smokers steady during that time. Annaly Capital Management isn't a conventional company. While its dividend yield of 5.7%

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

First Rate Cut S&P 500 Return (12 Months Later) October 1984 13% March 1985 32% December 1985 18% July 1986 27% November 1987 11% June 1989 14% July 1995 19% September 1998 21% January 2001 (14%) September 2007 (21%) July 2019 10% Median 14% Data source: Trading Economics.

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JUNE 26, 2024

Despite a worldwide reach and a stock that has traded since 2007, it was a server manufacturer largely unknown outside its industry. Investors looking to capitalize on the AI boom have bid its stock price higher, and it is up more than 430% over the last five years, taking its stock price to around $1,050 as of this writing.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Many investors favor dividend stocks for their ability to reduce volatility, create capital gains in down markets, and provide steady income for long-term shareholders. However, it is well known that growth stocks have outperformed income stocks by a wide margin since 2007. economy over the last 40 years. Image source: Author.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

With a recent market capitalization of roughly $3.55 But investors wouldn't have had to invest in the company at the time of the first iPhone launch in 2007 in order to score market-crushing gains. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock has climbed roughly 21% across 2024's trading. But that hasn't been the only source of gains for shareholders.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 4, 2024

Egress was founded in 2007 and offers a cloud email security platform using what it calls an adaptive security model, which leverages AI to assess human risk and provide email protection. Albion’s relationship with Egress started in 2014 with a Series A £2.2m funding, when the company was a team of 12.

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OCTOBER 26, 2024

Net lease transactions are often capital-raising events, where a company sells a property it owns and uses in what is called a sale/leaseback transaction. Being so large tends to give the REIT advantaged access to capital markets, which means it can compete aggressively for properties and still turn a profit.

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JUNE 22, 2024

For starters, Realty Income's size and financial strength allow it advantaged access to capital markets. What's even more interesting is how NNN REIT has grown its business over time, with more than 70% of its acquisitions since 2007 coming from retailers with which it already had a working relationship.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

million gain), giving it capital to recycle into higher-returning new investments. billion of properties since 2007 from existing relationships (72% of its acquisition volume). The company has the financial flexibility to continue expanding its portfolio. It enhanced this by selling 20 properties for $85.5 million (a $22.4

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JANUARY 29, 2024

The company's stock is now down approximately 95% from its post-merger peak and has a market capitalization of roughly $6.9 Assuming the company's share count held constant, the EV upstart would have a market capitalization of roughly $462 billion at that price. Is there a feasible path for it to deliver returns on that level?

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Amazon In 2007, Buffett wrote the following in his shareholder letter: "A truly great business must have an enduring 'moat' that protects excellent returns on invested capital." It also capitalizes on its brand authority by providing value-added services like risk management to merchants. The chart illustrates that point.

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