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Fundrise CEO Ben Miller Talks About the Fed, AI, and More

The Motley Fool

Typically, and I go back to 2007 or 1999, I went back and pulled quotes from like before every recession and right before every recession, jobs, unemployment was super low. Unemployment in 2007 was historic lows. You get a lot more information from a private company when you're investing in them. Well, jobs lag.

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How Clear Secure Is Building Its Business

The Motley Fool

Coming out of the financial crisis, we really wanted to do something different, and we thought, you know what, let's control cash flows, let's allocate capital ourselves. We found ourselves to be, we thought we were good capital allocators and we thought, this can't be that hard. That was the genesis of finding company to run.

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Investors Check the Label on Retail

The Motley Fool

CEO Fran Horowitz took over the company in 2007, really brought a merchandising focus to the business, have been able to be more responsive to trends and get those products to customers when they're interested in them. This is a small publicly traded company. What disaster would that be? Asit Sharma: I'm not sure they can.

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Suyi Kim on What Drives Success at CPP Investments' Giant PE Portfolio

Pension Pulse

Back in 2007 when Kim began what would turn into a 16-year stint heading up the fund’s Asian private equity business (she was the firm’s first hire outside Toronto when the portfolio was just C$4.4 “We’d never just re-up with a manager without cross referencing with our other strategies to inform how the manager will perform.”

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This Week in Pensions & Investments: 20-10-2023

Pension Pulse

in a joint transaction with private investment firm Searchlight Capital Partners. My take: This is a great deal for BCI and Searchlight, a private equity firm BCI seeded. Consolidated Communications is a leading fiber-first provider and it will grow nicely as a private company with BCI/ Searchlight as its partners.

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Transcript: Brad Gerstner

The Big Picture

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital & Invest America , is below. His firm, altimeter Capital, runs over $10 billion. That’s after returning a big chunk of capital and profits to their investors. They invest primarily in private and public companies. What can I say?

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Transcript: Anat Admati

The Big Picture

It turns out their business model is a little similar to the way the banking industry has managed to capture a lot of regulators and continue to operate fairly freely without this sort of regulation and capital requirements and equity requirements that would make banking safer. Capital is not …. ADMATI: Capital is not cash.

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