The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Well, it turns out that the Washington project, although owned and operated by Energy Northwest, would use SMRs manufactured by a private company called X-energy. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $46,959 !* Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, youd have $499,141 !*

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The rest of Berkshire's value comes from its insurance businesses, ownership of BNSF railroad, Berkshire Hathaway Energy , and other private companies. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $44,456 !* Berkshire now has just $320 billion in public equity holdings and has amassed a staggering $276.9

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The Motley Fool

JULY 23, 2023

(Photo Credit: Ian Bell/Flickr) The Silicon Valley Slide State-sponsored telecom companies used to be the driving force behind cable projects, which are often done through a consortium of international companies banding together to build and lay a cable. Increasingly, however, Big Tech companies are gaining market share.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Buffett and his investing team have repeatedly invested shareholder capital successfully, whether by buying shares of a publicly traded company, acquiring a private company, or simply buying back Berkshire's own stock. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $43,047 !*

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $46,349 !* Right now, were issuing Double Down alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. The hardest part about it is I see lots of great private companies that are not places where we can invest.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 17, 2025

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $43,229 !* Right now, were issuing Double Down alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. We can see the great financial recession, 2008 and '9. Microsoft on its own is a 500 bagger.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 18, 2024

AST SpaceMobile is making substantial progress Over the past several years, private companies have taken over space exploration and infrastructure development. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $43,917 !* Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, you’d have $370,844 !*

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The Motley Fool

JULY 3, 2024

Investment firm BC Partners owned Chewy when it was a private company. For its part, the company had already announced that it would use its cash flow to repurchase shares. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $40,956 !* It took Chewy public and still holds about 70% of the shares.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

For example, this particular episode, I'll be sharing an essay from January 2008, then we'll jump forward to 2012 and 2013. Essay Number 1 is from January 2008. That was the essay that kicked off the year of 2008. Well, that just continued pretty much the whole of 2008. We usually have some doozies. What a year that was.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $43,369 !* Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, you’d have $476,653 !*

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $44,456 !* Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. Sanmeet Deo: It's in terms of pure play publicly traded humanoid companies. They're working with BMW.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 31, 2024

AIMCo CEO Evan Siddall wrote an op-ed for the Globe and Mail stating ‘shadow banks’ aren’t a problem for the financial system – they are the solution: During the Great Financial Crisis of 2008-09, society paid a heavy price for having allowed financial institutions to become “too big to fail.” The fund has ballooned to $50.7

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Fortune Financial

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Alternative Investment Opportunity: Private Equity. Private equity is made up of nine investment strategies. At its core, private equity is capital that is invested in private companies that are not listed on the major U.S. Today, private equity firms are more focused on aligning the interests of all stakeholders.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Certainly in terms of credit card delinquencies it's nowhere in the vicinity of the all-time highs which were back in 2008, 2009 era. You used to be able to get a student loan refinancing through some of these private companies like SoFi or Discover with a 3% interest rate. I'm not sure that is yet at a real all-time high.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 30, 2023

Most of you don't remember but HOOPP was the only pension plan to eke out a positive return back in 2008 during the GFC as their massive fixed income portfolio came through for them. Foreign governments and private companies also have sponsored cat bonds as a hedge against natural disasters.

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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. To his point, real yields are surging toward 2.5%, the highest since 2008.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $39,157 !* Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, you’d have $328,736 !*

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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. How can this happen? Where did oversight fail?

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I’m gonna imagine private companies don’t have that sort of ability to float debt, but they certainly can issue some sort of a fixed rate. Did you see like what was the fixed rate world like on the private side when things were dirt cheap? How, how are the higher rates affecting valuations amongst private companies?

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $44,619 !* Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. Hobby Lobby, which is a private company with effectively no -- no long term debt.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $44,204 !* Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. Returning to the company as a whole.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2022

BALCHUNAS: … I would say the financial crisis of 2008 is when they really kicked in. I remember when I covered for Fund Action in the — in the 90’s — in the late 90’s, I would cover all the fund companies. BALCHUNAS: 2008 was the year that made Vanguard and ETFs. RITHOLTZ: Right. BALCHUNAS: Yeah. BALCHUNAS: Yeah.

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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.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But our students know many of the holding companies, right. And that’s what’s really interesting, that they know the publicly-traded companies, they know the private companies, but they don’t know the holding companies for the private companies.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

A similar process was used when the energy supplier Bulb collapsed in 2021 and would amount to a temporary renationalisation that would be the biggest since Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group were rescued at the height of the global financial crisis in 2008. stake, is the first to announce its support.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

And it stopped in like September of 2008. 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? Whereas in a public company merger, like it doesn’t really work that way.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

And that could be painful, because someone will have to take the pain, even if, unlike 2008, where the risk was concentrated on banks’ balance sheet, today is much more spread across, let’s say, asset managers. And then you, obviously the real estate, many areas that were over-levered at the wrong cost. How do you look at those?

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Before 2008, there was a saying it was safe as houses. Because before 2008, across wherever 100 years, houses have never gone down. People are looking in 2008 and say, housing is going to be fine. 2008 was an exception, so I think housing and households actually will be OK. Ben Miller: I totally agree.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 16, 2022

TROPIN: And then we meet every day at 9:30 and have since 2008, to look at every trader’s portfolio, how has it changed since the previous day? Their content covers both public and private companies in any sector across all major geographies around the globe. RITHOLTZ: Wow. Who’s added to risk? Who’s got risk?

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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 Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $39,157 !* Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. You're not like a private company in Silicon Valley able to be as agile.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 23, 2025

All this to say, Rocket Lab is now the second private company in North America to reliably launch rockets for commercial and government contractors. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $41,382 !* Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, youd have $517,876 !*

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 25, 2025

On top of that, it owns dozens of private companies and nonmarketable securities. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $41,382 !* Right now, were issuing Double Down alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 1, 2025

The fund largely tracks the Solactive Etna Artificial General Intelligence Index, although it can also hold shares in private companies outside of the index as well. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $47,762 !* Its top holdings as of Dec.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 4, 2025

From private companies like Varda Space Industries to BlackSky to government contractors, Rocket Lab provides launch services to a variety of customers. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $45,128 !* Where to invest $1,000 right now?

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Private Equity Professional

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Murphy has more than 25 years of experience advising clients across equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, debt advisory, special situations, financial sponsors, and private companies. Mr. Murphy holds an undergraduate degree in business administration from Georgetown University.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Nvidia is also finding commercial success worldwide, with new private companies in India, Japan, and Indonesia building Nvidia-powered AI data centers. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $43,369 !* Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, you’d have $476,653 !*

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