The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

If you’re a private company, you don’t have any of those pressures. RITHOLTZ: Does that insulate you from the sort of short-term activist, what about this quarter’s returns when you’re making those long-term investments in technology? We actually acquired in 2007 a local asset management.

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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.

Banks 80

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

So, Rebolledo returned with a team and a search warrant. 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.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In conversation with Top1000funds almost exactly two years since her promotion to the top job, she is mindful of how the portfolio’s size could impact its ability to continue to generate the pension fund’s strongest return of 15.5 It provides a level of analysis that goes much deeper than just persistency of returns, she says.

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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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Pension Pulse

APRIL 9, 2024

The company’s Queen Victoria Market project is part of an A$1.7 Like I said, in Canada, we are behind the student housing curve, we need a private company like Scape to set up operations here. Construction is expected to begin in the coming months with completion set for the 2028 fiscal year.

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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. Institutional investors see private debt as an area of huge opportunity in the coming years.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 27, 2023

See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of 10/16/2023 This video was recorded on Oct. He's also a returning guest to Motley Fool Money. 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. 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.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

We looked at everything from retail to nursing homes to hospitals to insurance companies to manufacturers. Really, private equity used to be a small, outperforming sector of alternatives. It’s now become giant, dominated by four firms, and no longer generating outsized returns. Anyway, Gretchen is a legend on Wall Street.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

That’s after returning a big chunk of capital and profits to their investors. They invest primarily in private and public companies. 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. Once again? I have an extra special guest.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It’s the fall of 2007. Which on the books, if all you’re thinking about is you’re in a cubicle and you’re analyzing numbers for some publicly traded company, you slash inventory, you’ve lowered, or I’m sorry, you’ve increased return on asset because inventory is asset, right?

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