Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth. Is this possible?

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Pension Pulse

MAY 14, 2024

CLO equity — a small slice of the resurgent market for CLOs that bundle leveraged loans into bonds with varying safety ratings — is actually a form of deeply subordinated debt. billion in assets, said the attraction of low default rates for leveraged loans, estimated at 1.5%-2% and CVC Credit Partners, to raise at least $3.1

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We also continue to drive share gains in our markets by leveraging a multi-brand, multichannel approach at scale to differentiate ourselves competitively. Additionally, we are leveraging the scale of our Orkin brand across North America to effectively serve commercial customers coast to coast in both the U.S. and Canada.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 14, 2023

Our platform strategy has delivered scale and operating leverage through time, with 240 basis points of margin expansion in the last 10 years. Markets have improved since the end of 2022, and we aim to be disciplined in driving profitable growth by prioritizing investments to propel our differentiated organic growth and operating leverage.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

They are well behind, but they aren't losing deal flow to other capital sources. What we are seeing in this challenging fundraising environment is that investors value Walker & Dunlop's access to deal flow and banker/broker distribution network as deals get harder and traditional sources of capital move in and out of the market.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This approach is yielding profitable growth and operating leverage. As clients increasingly turn to BlackRock, we believe this will result in sustained market-leading organic growth, differentiated operating leverage and earnings and multiple expansion over time. With that, I'll turn it over to Larry. How is that evolving?

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The Motley Fool

MAY 3, 2024

Importantly and atypically, over half of our Q1 debt brokerage deal flow was on non-multifamily assets in retail, hospitality, industrial, and office. While some deals will need to be adjusted or even reworked, many deals remain on track. But you can't do that at current leverage levels. That's helpful.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Through this partnership, RingCX customers will be able to leverage Verint's leading WEM and CX automation solutions, which complement RingCentral's native AI capabilities. We are also leveraging our large GSP network to grow internationally. Leveraging our unique GSP network is also a opportunity and differentiator of RingCX growth.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 3, 2024

Maintaining the portfolio’s size, and growing it further, requires stepping up from the small-cap investments made at the beginning and developing large-cap partnerships and deal flow out of New York. The typical four- to five-year tenor of a private debt deal means around 20 per cent of the portfolio is in perpetual motion.

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Udu

APRIL 16, 2023

And what are the latest tools and technology for sourcing deals? Private equity firms need to know, which is why we’ve written this article. This method of deal sourcing allows PE firms to leverage their existing relationships and knowledge to fill their pipeline. Leverage Technology Finally, leverage technology.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

At quarter end, leverage stood at just 3.6 This patient approach is paid off -- paid off as we've been able to capitalize on distressed sellers while leveraging our asymmetric data sets and relationships to identify unique opportunities. times pro forma net debt to recurring EBITDA. As of September 30th, we have north of $1.9

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Turning to the broad trends we saw this quarter, as I met with customers around the globe, I saw a strong desire to leverage AI to improve business processes and elevate customer experiences. To add more context around overall deal flow, EMEA grew the fastest during the quarter, followed by the Americas and APJ.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

Rolling with the punches Submitted 27/06/2023 - 1:47pm This article first appeared in the March 2023 T ech Buyouts Insights Report The tech buyout market has watched deal activity take a downward trend through Q1 2023. Like this article? But there are signs a new valuation environment is turning back in its favour.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

billion, and we ended the quarter with net leverage of 1.13 The fund is in -- you know, squarely in our target leverage level, and so we are sizing new investments essentially to replace repayments. We can offer maybe a bit more leverage for a high-quality company. And second one for me, just on leverage.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 12, 2024

As markets improve, we remain committed to driving operating leverage and profitable growth. Looking forward, we'll continue to prioritize investments with differentiated organic growth potential or that will expand operating leverage through enhanced scale. Today, Aladdin is much more than that. Operator Thank you.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 29, 2024

Domo was founded to help organizations leverage their data more effectively. The number of joint deals in our pipeline being worked between us and CDW partners has increased from zero to over 60 deals over just the last two quarters. This represents a completely new source of deal flow.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 29, 2024

As an example, in Q1, a leading sales enablement software company signed an expanded deal to use Elastic to incorporate GenAI across its platform. connector and custom index support for AI Assistant knowledge base, giving customers more flexibility in how they leverage the AI assistant. Ash Kulkarni -- Chief Executive Officer Yeah.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

And now we've transitioned to addressing the sector's growing power needs, leveraging our sizable energy infrastructure platform, which includes the largest private renewables developer in North America. One of the advantages of Blackstone is just our scale and the amount of deal flow we see across all these different areas.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

increased by 40 basis points year on year as we continue to drive operating leverage and profitable growth after the market shock of 2022. Looking forward, we're prioritizing investments to propel our differentiated organic growth and operating leverage. Our fourth quarter operating margin of 41.6%

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 7, 2024

For instance, I don't know whether you saw yesterday map, but there was a scathing article on Starwood 's Sreit in the Wall Street Journal. It's the same thing that the BCRED at Blackstone has been dealing with for the last two years. But even with all of that, it's still very slow-moving. There's things that don't happen overnight.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Instead, our teams will leverage behavioral analysis, machine-learning operations, and our unique metadata telemetry to protect them. This allows companies to realize more value from their data, leverage it safely, and keep it protected. million of free cash flow in 2023, up from $0.5 million last year.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Our partner network continues to generate opportunities and open new deal flow. We leverage all layers of the AI tech stack, silicon cloud infrastructure services, and foundation models. We had a very active first quarter in alliances, working closely with our partners to close new agreements. For example, GPT 4.0,

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Udu

MAY 30, 2023

Features like private equity deal flow, valuation capabilities, and analysis tools are key for identifying and landing lucrative opportunities. As competition heats up, finding the right software for private equity firms is critical. According to RSM Global, there’s an estimated $1.24

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And then, if we think about the embedded FRE growth through 2025, how should we think about how that operating leverage could drive margin expansion next year? So I would say to size it up, if you look at the leveraged finance world, it's roughly a $5 trillion universe today. How much is driven by placement fees? Operator Thank you.

Debt 130

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The Motley Fool

MAY 30, 2024

We believe that in time, every organization, big and small, will leverage the power of AI to transform their businesses. To add more context around deal flow during the quarter, we saw a healthy balance across our solutions and continue to maintain a similar solution mix in annual contract values versus the prior quarter.

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Udu

APRIL 21, 2023

They also provide due diligence services to ensure that a deal is viable, and their portfolio management tools make it easy for firms to track performance across their investments. Deal volume: The PE deal origination platform should offer a sufficient volume of deals to allow firms to find suitable investment opportunities.

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SuperAngel.Fund

APRIL 21, 2023

” Per a Wall Street Journal article from November 2, 2022 : “Venture has outperformed other asset classes in prior down cycles. As Warren Buffett famously said: “Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.”

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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

This will bring about intense competition among firms for the best deals and may lead to a seller’s market. Fewer Large Leveraged Buyouts Tighter monetary policy and a more uncertain macroeconomic outlook make large lenders more hesitant to finance large leveraged buyouts.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

So, it's really -- it's basically about the deal flow if you really put it in business terms. At many different stages of their career, somebody has no following, and somebody has a bigger one. And it's important for us to effectively widen the net in which we can work with artists and find great talent. And that is exactly the intent.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Beyond chatbots, the company is leveraging Elastic's hybrid search capabilities, combining keyword and semantic search for broader applications. We also signed an expansion deal with a leading sporting goods retailer in North America to support their omnichannel experience.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Leveraging Professional Services Financing 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We also leveraged gross profit by 76 basis points and grew adjusted EBITDA by 18%. We continue to experience healthy deal flow, which helped offset the margin impact of our system integration, which we estimate was approximately 130 basis points in the quarter. million of operating cash flow, and we invested $175.6

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We enabled strong operating leverage driving 160% conversion of incremental revenue to adjusted EBITDA this quarter. This operating leverage is a strong indicator of what to expect as we move this company from adjusted-EBITDA positive to a free cash flow generating growth company over time. This is Josh Resnik.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As you've read in our shareholder letter, FY '25 is off to a good start, with fresh off our Team '24 Europe event in Barcelona, where we heard our customers like Vodafone, Lloyds Banking Group and Mercedes-Benz are leveraging our products in powerful ways to drive team productivity and deliver superior service.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 24, 2024

Our team's efforts continue to produce unique and proprietary deal flow, and we continue to identify attractive investment opportunities across all three external growth platforms. We are very well-positioned to execute on our pipeline and stay well within our stated leverage range without any additional capital.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

These megatrends are occurring amid an increasing focus by organizations to leverage digital transformation to drive business transformation. So, you can leverage all at -- all capabilities on the platform. And then the last phase being you're kind of leveraging existing workloads. So, it's actually both.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As I stated in the past, we have yet to see a correlation between sales and retailer demand as evidenced by our deal flow, which in terms of square footage is 40% greater when compared to the same period last year. These proceeds were used to fund the PPRT acquisition and to reduce leverage on Queen Center. Regarding holiday.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

Our buyers are doing a fantastic job partnering with suppliers, and we are seeing healthy deal flow across categories. Gross debt was $298 million at the end of the second quarter, with net leverage less than one times adjusted EBITDA. We're seeing healthy deal flow across departments, which feels really good.

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