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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. They may do this by any number of value added taxes, property taxes. What disaster would that be?

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How Clear Secure Is Building Its Business

The Motley Fool

I remember reading this study that said most Americans would rather have their taxes audited by the IRS than go a dealership [laughs]. That was the genesis of finding company to run. It was one of the few private companies we were invested in, and that company was a service provider to the old Clear.

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Transcript: Anat Admati

The Big Picture

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 Blackstone Bombshell That Just Shook PE Industry

Pension Pulse

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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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

The Big Picture

I could do my own taxes. If you’re a private company, you don’t have any of those pressures. JOHNSON: Exactly, the tax… RITHOLTZ: The negative on a mutual fund is phantom taxes. I find it’s just like, you know what, and it’s funny, this is like a later in life realization. JOHNSON: Exactly.

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Transcript: Michael Carmen, Wellington

The Big Picture

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.

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Will OMERS and BCI Drown Along With Thames Water?

Pension Pulse

While the consortium that has owned Thames since 2017 has yet to take a dividend out of it, its predecessor – the Australian bank Macquarie – has been widely criticised for its stewardship of the water company between 2006 and 2017. It has faced accusations of “asset stripping” and “ripping off the taxpayer” by not paying corporation tax.