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What You Can Learn From My Single Biggest Investing Mistake

The Motley Fool

Rather than perform due diligence , I simply took this as a sign that selling was the right decision. Moreover, the stock price did not stay sustainably above $48 per share until 2007. However, 2007 was the year that Booking stock finally began to take off.

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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 Our job is due diligence, and for deals that require a level of speed that makes the due diligence difficult, well, we won’t do the deal.

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Talking With Authors: "Selling Without Selling Out" With Sunny Vanderbeck

The Motley Fool

Within about 90 days, it became apparent to me that we had not done sufficient reversed due diligence on our acquirer. This idea of reversed due diligence is like they're asking a bunch of questions trying to figure out who you are and where you fit with cultures like all those things. We managed to still sign and close.

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The Blackstone Bombshell That Just Shook PE Industry

Pension Pulse

Blackstone told us "extensive pre-investment due diligence showed PSSI had industry-leading hiring compliance." But it seems, that diligence failed to find what was obvious to investigators watching a shift change in a parking lot. In 2007, Taylor won the $1.5M Mr. Taylor’s previous honors include the 2015 John W.

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Transcript: Matt Levine

The Big Picture

But there’s also a lot of, like at Wittel, you know, I was at Wachtel in 2005 to 2007, so really near the peak of a big merger’s boom. 00:33:08 Who, who is advising him to waive due diligence? Normally the hostile deals sort of end up going quasi friendly and like you get to do some due diligence.

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Transcript: Michael Carmen, Wellington

The Big Picture

And what I think distinguishes us at Wellington is that we’re able to utilize our public market investors in the due diligence process in helping us assess. And so we, we kind of stay very stealth when we’re in the due diligence process. 00:45:53 [Speaker Changed] So where does your deal flow come from?

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

There were financial experiments where the borrower hadn’t been through due diligence. So we’ve, we purchased, and most of the homes were purchased one at a time, independent due diligence, independent construction management to get the home back up to current market standards. The LTV was very high.