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The Tangled Geopolitics of Undersea Cables

The Motley Fool

Sharing isn't Caring: In 2018, Google announced it was abandoning the traditional cable consortium funding model and would fully fund and own any new cables it laid. What effectively happens is you might see that Google has built one cable on a certain route but they can leverage that by using that as a means of exchange."

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The metrics that matter for a successful exit

Insight Partners

startups founded in 2018 that used Carta for cap table management: 49% have shut down, 5% were acquired, and just 0.2% only four made it to a public listing. At Insight, weve found that successful companies plan for every stage of their journey, all the way through to exit. At the end of 2024, the company was valued at $15B.

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On CPP Investments' Insanely Large Allocation to Private Equity

Pension Pulse

CPP Investments invests in private equity in two ways. The first is via direct investments, where it holds ownership stakes that vary from passive, minority positions, up to 100% control of private companies. The second is through private equity funds run by private equity firms, such as KKR and Blackstone.

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Cronos Group (CRON) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

We launched Spinach in Canada at the end of 2018. And we leveraged that success of Spinach as a blueprint for our broader portfolio, starting with Lord Jones. Adam brings significant finance and operational experience across both public and private companies to this leadership position. 2 brand in Canada.

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APG and Ivanhoé Cambridge Back Scape's $658M Student Housing JV in Australia

Pension Pulse

APG had backed Scape’s earlier development joint ventures, which were established in 2015 and 2018, with Ivanhoe Cambridge having committed $649 million to the company’s core strategy in 2022.

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AIMCo CEO Evan Siddall on Shadow Banks and Investing More in Canada

Pension Pulse

Nevertheless, the more NBFIs look like banks – for example, with open-ended short-term funding, high levels of leverage, significant derivative exposures – the more liquidity they should hold and be required to hold. Those are the publicly traded asset classes that private credit is most comparable to. The fund has ballooned to $50.7

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XPO (XPO) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

billion, and we achieved significant operating leverage on that growth delivering a 20% increase in adjusted EBITDA to $333 million. The majority of these sites are in markets where we want to build density and leverage our existing teams, each new service center helps our network operate more efficiently. times last quarter and 2.5