Financial Times M&A

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Plus, China’s young professionals pivot away from finance and Nippon Steel flies to Washington in last-gasp bid to save $15bn deal

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Financial Times M&A

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Hedge fund Davidson Kempner joins traditional long-only investors in opposing the deal

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 8, 2023

According to reports, Barclays has been hired to advise on the bid, which would value the Co-operative Bank at around £800m. million retail customers, was sold to a group of hedge fund investors in 2017 after it came close to collapse.

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Financial Times M&A

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Hedge fund boss tells EV specialist not to accept bid, which puts its enterprise value at €3bn, from competitor that has ‘missed the boat’

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A computer scientist and tech innovator, Gupta led the machine learning team for Google’s Smart Ads Bidding and Optimisation for six years, launching multiple products and models for boosting ad effectiveness and revenue.

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American Investment Council

JUNE 5, 2024

“A federal appeals court on Wednesday struck down a sweeping overhaul of rules governing private equity firms and hedge funds, a big win for Wall Street groups pushing back against SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s agenda.” Today, POLITICO published an article highlighting the 5 th U.S.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 16, 2023

Silver Lake owns more than two-thirds of Global Blue after acquiring it in a 1-billion-euro deal in 2012 and then merging it with a blank-check acquisition company sponsored by Daniel Loeb’s hedge fund Third Point LLC in 2020 at a $2.6 billion valuation.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 14, 2023

The world’s largest alternative asset manager is working on more acquisitions with several bids out and properties like hotels and data centres in the pipeline, according to Blackstone’s head of Japan real estate Daisuke Kitta. Blackstone Inc. That comes after it spent most of last year shedding assets, including about $1.3

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 3, 2023

According to the report, which cites a number of unnamed sources, buyout firm Advent, part of the group that once owned Worldpay, is considering a bid. That move followed a strategic review the Florida-based company embarked on in 2022 under pressure from hedge funds D.E. Shaw and JANA Partners.

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Financial Times M&A

JUNE 25, 2024

Plus, the Spanish banking takeover battle in uncharted territory and Blackstone tries to fend off hedge funds pushing for a higher Hipgnosis bid

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

California-based hedge fund and activist shareholder Butler Hall Capital has issued an open letter to French skincare company L’Occitane, urging its board of directors to relist on a US exchange and reconsider the company’s valuation following news of Blackstone’s potential bid to acquire the business.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Over the long haul, low-cost, broad-based index funds will likely beat out funds actively managed by Wall Street's best and brightest. This effect is so strong that Warren Buffett, easily among the world's greatest investors, won a $1 million bet that an index fund would beat a basket of hedge funds over the course of a decade.

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Financial Times M&A

APRIL 15, 2022

Chicago family, hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin and Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert decide against bid

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

That, combined with the expectation rate cuts will begin in the second half of the year, has some local hedge funds turning bullish on equities. Those transactions usually signal confidence in the business and may eventually suggest a good entry point for shares,” said Tiago Cunha, an equity fund manager at Ace Capital in São Paulo.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 12, 2023

LSE’s cash and stock purchase of Refinitiv transformed LSE into a powerhouse vendor to hedge funds and investment groups using its financial data. Read more India’s Lok Capital seeks $200m for Fund IV, gets AIIB support Indian impact investor Lok Capital has secured USD 25m from Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 30, 2023

Morningstar ) • This Analyst Bootcamp Wants to Transform Training at Hedge Funds : Inspired by the Point72 Academy, Fundamental Edge aims to better prepare junior employees and career-changers for the demanding industry. In 140 years, American policymakers have never faced a banking crisis quite like this.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

From “ The Relentless Bid ” comes the first explanation that resonates as to how and why the market’s character changed so much in the 2010s: “Morgan Stanley wealth management took in a massive $51.9 He explains the impact of free capital, the subtle shift from value to growth, away from hard assets and towards intellectual property.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2024

Carly Wanna and Carmen Reinicke of Bloomberg report hedge funds pump up exposure to Nvidia, cut AMD: Hedge funds continued to lean into the biggest technology companies leading the way in artificial intelligence as the hype propelled the US stock market higher in the first quarter of the year. and Microsoft Corp.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

According to reports, Barclays has been hired to advise on the bid, which would value the Co-operative Bank at around £800m. million retail customers, was sold to a group of hedge fund investors on 2017 after it came close to collapse. Formerly part of the Co-op Group, the Co-operative Bank, which has 2.7

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 20, 2023

2023 is a perfect example where large hedge funds and asset managers herded into seven mega cap ech stocks: The gap between the Magnificent 7 and the S&P 493 (remaining 493 companies) is now 63%. This year, the Magnificent 7 is up a massive 75% while the remaining 493 companies are up just 12%.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 18, 2023

a barrel Gold futures were little changed Lu Wang of Bloomberg also reports hedge funds reload on shorts after rushing to unwind stock bet: Fast-money stock skeptics who got throttled in July are charging back undaunted. New York time The Nasdaq 100 fell 0.4% Currencies The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index fell 0.1% to $25,873.07

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Big hedge funds are shorting it, which means they're betting that it's going to go down to zero and go bankrupt. Can I get to these hedge fund guys? I sent it to my Hollywood agent first and by Friday of that week, we had a bidding war with five studios bidding on it. Can I get to Roaring Kitty?

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The Big Picture

JULY 22, 2023

Now, the island has enlisted commercial drone companies in a bid to catch up. The firm’s focus is on major investment themes, and its clients include many of the world’s largest hedge funds and alternative asset managers. Blake, what’s all this Pokémon stuff you’ve been posting about?”

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Top 1000 Funds

JULY 5, 2023

Korea's KIC is accelerating its expansion into alternatives, targeting a quarter of the $169 billion fund in alts by 2025 in a bid to escape the volatility, macroeconomic and geopolitical risk that impacts the fund's traditional public markets allocation.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

We have submitted bids, but we often come in far below the winning bid and in retrospect we are happy that we’ve missed these investments.” “We use our secondaries to adjust the portfolio here.” In fact, the number of deals across the entire private equity portfolio has slowed significantly in the last two years. “We

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Sara Grillo

MARCH 13, 2023

Quick take: what is a bid-ask spread for an ETF? If we believe it is worth $25, there may be a bid (amount the buyer is willing to pay) of $24.98, and an offer(ask price) of $25.03 If a good company goes down the hedge funds who don’t care about ESG will buy it back up. from the seller.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

At the client level, we delivered subscription run rate growth of 15% collectively among wealth managers, banks and broker-dealers, hedge funds, insurance companies, and corporates. They bid up the properties. MSCI achieved another solid quarter of performance across client segments and product lines.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 12, 2024

Rough justice, about half of that performance fee is coming from kind of our private equity funds and private equity programs where we had some very successful realizations that Larry talked about last year, which was created in some of the distributions associated with that. I want you to think about it this way.

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Axial

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

.” Visit DPC’s Profile “OCEANM19 LLC (“OM19”) is a Chicagoland-based, single-family investment office that has concentrated allocations to direct private equity investments, hedge funds, venture capital and real estate.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

We're making progress on sales hiring efforts and we have a strong pipeline of asset managers, hedge funds, ETF market makers, and insurance companies that we are focused on. They tend to trade on bid lists and offer lists. That's worth watching and worth kind of saying.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 18, 2023

We think transparency of these factors – cost, governance, performance and responsible investment – is important to drive improvement of outcomes for pension funds around the world, and the improvements in the scores this year demonstrates the power of the benchmark to improve practices.”

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nobody in the world writes about markets, finance derivatives, hedge funds, you name it, the way Matt does. All right, last topic that you talk about on a regular basis, derivatives, high frequency trading, hedge funds, endowment, short selling. And it’s why he has such an amazing following.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 9, 2023

Let me begin by stating I remember Crestline Investors from my days investing in hedge funds over 20 years ago at CDPQ. For more information, please visit www.crestlineinvestors.com. IMCO put out the same press release on this deal which you can read here.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

What sort of an appetite do you seem — I’m sure clients — for traditional alternatives like hedge funds venture capital and private equity? RITHOLTZ: Bidding wars are dropping. BITTERLY MICHELL: … it was within hedge funds, for example. RITHOLTZ: So let’s stay in the U.S. RITHOLTZ: Extending.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The first question was about r8fin and about how these sort of macro hedge funds are engaging in liquidity through smart algorithms in r8fin then. So there's things that we're working on adding bid-ask information to the mids that we already use in products. The thread is obviously all about like innovation and efficiency.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 27, 2023

An arm of Canadian investment giant Brookfield has made a cash and stock bid for American Equity Investment Life Holding Co. The bid includes $38.85 to satisfy the stock portion of the bid. It attracted a bid in 2020 from Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. valuing the insurance firm at about $4.3 billion rupees.

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The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Ilana Weinstein Discusses the Hedge Fund War for Talent , is below. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ Ilana Weinstein on the War for Talent at Hedge Funds (Podcast) ANNOUNCER: This is Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio.

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