This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2019

If you’re lacking for track record as a firm, here’s three exercises you should walk through to help turn your pitch and due diligence meetings from guesswork into something more substantive. For example, let’s say I had a more national fund. This is actually easily referenced.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2023

The 77-year-old billionaire told the Financial Times that big asset managers had competed aggressively to lend to the largest private equity groups as money poured into their coffers in 2020 and 2021, raising questions over the due diligence the funds conducted when they agreed to provide multibillion-dollar loans.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 25, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Teachers' invests in portable battery company aiming to replace gas-powered generators: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is leading a US$95-million funding round for Instagrid GmbH, a German maker of portable battery systems designed to replace gas-powered generators.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

There were financial experiments where the borrower hadn’t been through due diligence. And what we figured out in 2009, really when we started buying homes is that we made the bet that it, I mean, it wasn’t a very exotic bet, but we made the bet that the subprime mortgage market wasn’t coming back at all.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 20, 2022

My boss, this gentleman I mentioned had been the Finance Minister of Peru was like, I need you to go down to Peru and take a look at the bank, do due diligence, right, 25 years old. And those people are really important for sourcing deals, doing due diligence on deals, doing due diligence on people.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

And again, some history, until 2009 or ‘10, Warren Buffett actually spoke out against buybacks. DAMODARAN: Or it could be some unique characteristic, pension funds pay no taxes. DAMODARAN: We’re going to do our due diligence. We also tell them to do due diligence. RITHOLTZ: He was not a fan.

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