Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 20, 2023

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. That gives people the go-ahead to take rates above 5%.”

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

No pension fund wants to invest in private companies that abuse immigrant children. I still don't and when I see these flagrant abuses at private companies, I'd be even tougher on them, lawyering up and using private investigators extensively. In 2007, Taylor won the $1.5M How can this happen?

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 9, 2024

Like I said, in Canada, we are behind the student housing curve, we need a private company like Scape to set up operations here. In my opinion, that project can't come soon enough and will ease the affordability crisis in the city of Montreal. Nido will continue to provide a best-in-class service to customers during this transition.

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The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

If you’re a private company, you don’t have any of those pressures. We actually acquired in 2007 a local asset management. There’s a lot of scrutiny around compensation of the staff. RITHOLTZ: Right. JOHNSON: There’s an expectation on political. You’re going to opine on certain political issues.

Mutual Funds 88

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Just really a fascinating history from, from a private company to a public company back to a, a partnership. He is uniquely situated because he has run both public mutual funds as well as privates, including late stage venture private equity credit down the list. Really interesting. In terms of being that specific.

Hedge Funds 64

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

So, until the financial crisis of 2007 and 2009 or however you go — you actually time it, I was in this finance bubble. ADMATI: We’re at the mercy of these private companies. RITHOLTZ: Because they’re private companies. But the Sacklers took away a whole bunch of money to private company.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

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. Like I think that, like there are a lot of people signing a public company merger agreement is sort of different from like signing a letter of intent to buy a private company, right?

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

The company leaks more water than any other water company in UK, losing the equivalent of up to 250 Olympic size swimming pools every day from its pipes. Its chief executive, Sarah Bentley, resigned last week, weeks after she was asked to forgo her bonus over the company's handling of sewage spills.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

So the theory was that’s great that you’re providing a loan, but if you can co-invest with them and get the upside of partnering with some of the most successful private equity funds in the United States, you know, a great way to enhance your returns. Yes, there’s a lot of liquidity in private equity.

Private Equity Firms 59

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2025

Even amid tariff uncertainty clouding the near-term picture, several private companies are now on track to go public. Eventually, StubHub sold itself to eBay in January 2007 for $310 million. After a long pause, it looks as though the market for initial public offerings (IPOs) may be heating up again.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

So I had started a third company called Room 77 that we had end up selling to Google. I had just gotten married in the fall of 2007. Or are you looking at startups or private companies that have been for around for a while that are potential disruptors? I had my first child in June of 2008.

Hedge Funds 98

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

MORGENSON: Could be banks, could be Wall Street, could be private debt folks, but it’s — RITHOLTZ: This is very often securitized and sold off into the market as well? MORGENSON: It can be collateralized loan obligations, now it’s big private debt. But so you had these dividend recaps. RITHOLTZ: Wow.

Private Equity Firms 59

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Mr. Letellier and Innergex chief financial officer Jean Trudel are also rolling over a portion of their shares and reinvesting a minimum of $15-million in the privatized company, according to details of the transaction. The pension fund invested in the company before it went public in 2007 and has also provided financing for projects.

Pension Funds 59

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It’s the fall of 2007. So if you’re a, if you are a private company, why are you asking me the taxpayer Sure. I’m working in the New York Bureau of the Washington Post. Wasn’t all that keen to leave. I love the Washington Post, but I thought, well, I better do this sleepy story, the national economy.

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