Cobalt

JANUARY 22, 2025

Private Equity Performance: Large Strategies Versus Funds of Funds, Co-Investments, and Secondaries In private equity, the large strategies of buyouts, venture capital, credit, and real estate naturally grab the headlines as the biggest players in the industry. This blog post is for informational purposes only.

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Cobalt

MAY 20, 2024

It was a transition period for the private capital industry, when discussing the size of the alternatives market jumped to trillions from billions. This blog post is for informational purposes only. The information contained in this blog post is not legal, tax, or investment advice.

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Cobalt

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In the chart below, t he Q4 benchmark for each investment style illustrates how a Limited Partner ( LP ) may assess their portfolio weightings in the region. Key Takeaways Unsurprisingly, venture capital and buyout funds have the highest first quartile returns. This blog post is for informational purposes only.

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Cobalt

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As such, we built a portfolio of 185 venture capital funds with a technology focus, using quarterly data as a proxy for interest in crypto investment over the past decade. If faith in tech big and small is restored and macro conditions improve, the drawdown could slowly reverse This blog post is for informational purposes only.

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Cobalt

APRIL 4, 2023

As we continue to assess the aftermath, we examine d the state of v enture capital and g rowth e quity, spaces both closely associated with SVB. Even compared to previous charts examining NAVs and dry powder in this time frame , the venture capital and growth space stands out. This blog post is for informational purposes only.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2024

Brian Haney, president and chief operating officer of Kinsale Capital , talks Motley Fool analyst Bill Mann through how retail investors can judge financial companies and why insurers have such a tough time in states like Florida. This is from the CrowdStrike technical blog. You mentioned the CrowdStrike blog post.

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Cobalt

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

To highlight this metric, the chart below illustrates TWRR for the North American, Global, and Western Europe markets to compare the regions’ buyout and venture capital (VC) funds across different time horizons. Another time period that jumps out is the negative venture capital returns at the 1-year horizon.

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Cobalt

MARCH 8, 2023

We compared their total value to paid-in capital (TVPIs) between 1998 and 2021 to see the returns each investment style might offer to investors moving forward. On the other hand, venture capital has ( unsurprisingly ) a highly volatile history. This blog post is for informational purposes only.

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Cobalt

MARCH 18, 2024

Law of Averages: Comparing 3 Decades of Commitments Among Buyout, Venture Capital, and Credit Funds In private markets, we regularly analyze three main facets of our Cobalt market dataset— performance, fundraising, and cash flows—to gain insight into the fund commitments that limited partners (LPs) have made across their portfolios.

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Cobalt

OCTOBER 12, 2023

With a more volatile environment, it will be interesting to see if the unexpected observations in the venture capital and buyout lower quartile returns revert back to the average benchmark moving forward. This blog post is for informational purposes only.

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Cobalt

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Looking Ahead: As mentioned in our last Emerging Markets piece, the structure and opportunity in the Middle East bodes well for continuing the growth trends in the area (Venture Capital specifically). This blog post is for informational purposes only. The information contained in this blog post is not legal, tax, or investment advice.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

Capitalizing on the momentum generated by our first commercial license deal in Q2 with STMicro, we've been busy meeting with new and existing customers to emphasize the urgency of adopting and taking MST production. Richard Shannon -- Craig-Hallum Capital Group -- Analyst Great. I look forward to telling you about the developments.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

You can read about it in our blog. Operator And your next question comes from the line of Eric Handler from ROTH Capital Partners. Eric Handler -- ROTH Capital Partners -- Analyst Yes. Eric Handler -- ROTH Capital Partners -- Analyst Great. Eric Handler -- ROTH Capital Partners -- Analyst Thank you very much.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

We believe this program is something of a game changer and have written about it at length on our blog and we cover its mechanics in the back of the shareholder letter published yesterday. The reupped program is for the same 55% seed as we had previously to the same top-tier reinsurers yielding similar capital efficiency.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

Richard Shannon -- Craig-Hallum Capital Group -- Analyst All right. Richard Shannon -- Craig-Hallum Capital Group -- Analyst Excellent. Richard Shannon -- Craig-Hallum Capital Group -- Analyst OK. Richard Shannon -- Craig-Hallum Capital Group -- Analyst OK. Richard Shannon -- Craig-Hallum Capital Group -- Analyst OK.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 28, 2024

And in fact, this week, there's a blog that came out that talked about a whole bunch of new libraries that we offer. And a generative AI company spends the vast majority of their invested capital into infrastructure so that they could use an AI to help them create products. These are very capital-intensive infrastructures.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And there's other forms of capture that are growing as well, particularly in blogging. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. And we're seeing -- if you think about alternative capture, 360, it's definitely been a growth category.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

Jason Moser: Tangible common equity, it's a measure of a company's physical capital. But tangible common equity is focused on the physical capital. Book value is the value of a company's total assets minus its total liabilities. How well capitalized, how solvent is this bank? That's the way I always think about it.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 23, 2023

I’m not an actuary, so please forgive any oversimplifications here, but with no new future employees joining them, these DB funds basically now comprise a lump of increasingly straightforward-to-calculate future liabilities. In short, it makes sense for this pool of capital to stick with low-risk bonds to match the future liabilities.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Relative to the several '23 records at our marine terminals, we have long said that hydrocarbons would price to export proven once again in '23, In growth capital, during '23, we completed construction of $3.5 billion in capital investment expected to be completed this year. We have considerable amount of growth capital underway.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Assets and liabilities Ivanhoé Cambridge got its start in the 1950s when Montreal grocer Sam Steinberg started buying up local shopping centers. In 2012 the company formed a partnership with Chicago-based Callahan Capital Partners to expand its U.S. It’s not just about bad assets; it’s also about bad liabilities.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Richard Shannon -- Craig-Hallum Capital Group -- Analyst Thanks, Mike. Richard Shannon -- Craig-Hallum Capital Group -- Analyst When you say you haven't gotten a schedule from STMicro, when do you expect that? Richard Shannon -- Craig-Hallum Capital Group -- Analyst OK. Richard, please go ahead. Fair enough.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2024

Our announcement this month of a new MST substrate based on Soitec's leading RF SOI technology provided a major step forward, solving a common problem among RF designers, which is detailed in my blog and Hideki presentation at SEMICON. Bibaud -- President and Chief Executive Officer Sure. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

As our chief innovation officer, Nick Millington, outlined in his blog post two weeks ago, we've made significant progress in bringing the quality of our software experience to a level that we're proud of. Returning capital to shareholders remain a key pillar of our capital allocation framework. Your line is open.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Selling and leasing back their towers, along with some that have yet to be constructed, is a way of smoothing out that investment by paying for it in the form of rent rather than capital expenditure. Together, we will bring international sector expertise and long-term capital to support Connexa in delivering its growth strategy.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I've said this many times, the primary purpose of any pension fund is to deliver on its mandate, obtaining the highest risk-adjusted returns over the long run, making sure they have more than enough assets to cover their long dated liabilities. So why have they been so vocal on this issue now?

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 1, 2024

data center infrastructure: Data center firm Equinix is forming a joint venture with Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board with goals to raise more than $15 billion in capital, the company said on Tuesday. Equinix and its partners will use the capital to expand the U.S.

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Ballast Advisors

MARCH 17, 2023

Reducing your tax liability can literally save you thousands of dollars Tax season can be a stressful time for many people, especially if you’re not fully prepared. Plan Your Capital Gains & Losses If you have investments, you can minimize your tax liability by planning your capital gains and losses strategically.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

And a recent blog published by Databricks, Gaudi2 was shown to clearly deliver the best training and inference performance per dollar based on public cloud pricing. Our intent is to bring in private capital this year to create an eventual path to an IPO over the coming years. We remain committed to our smart capital framework.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2024

High interest rates have driven up capitalization rates – the ratio that measures the annual yield from an investment property, giving an indication of how risky it is. Portfolio update We continue to rotate capital within the portfolio to best position the Plan in the face of emerging opportunities for growth. billion into credit.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Examples of these statements include our expectations regarding future growth, including our 2024 outlook, capital allocation, and future operating performance. In fact, I believe market access and cost of capital advantages may be of even more strategic importance in this cycle than they were over the last decade.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Richard Shannon -- Craig-Hallum Capital Group -- Analyst Great. Richard Shannon -- Craig-Hallum Capital Group -- Analyst OK. Richard Shannon -- Craig-Hallum Capital Group -- Analyst OK. Richard Shannon -- Craig-Hallum Capital Group -- Analyst OK. Richard Shannon -- Craig-Hallum Capital Group -- Analyst OK.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Bill McBride, I think who you know, he writes the Calculated Risk blog, post grade data on housing market and he's written about the effect that this rise in rates has had on the cost of finance the purchase of a home. Homebuilding is very much a capital allocation business. It's just become really, really hard.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2023

As a defined benefit pension with liabilities that stretch decades into the future, Ontario Teachers’ remains focused on delivering consistent investment returns over the long term. 3 Comprises investments less investment-related liabilities. billion) include net investments and other net assets and liabilities of $2.7

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 15, 2023

We do asset liability studies every three years. We will be adding exposure to Credit area (private debt) -- I know that's an area you talk quite a bit about in your blog. now, read a lot on markets, trade when I see opportunities and then sit down three to four hours after markets close to write my blog. I wake up at 5:30 a.m.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Going forward, we hope to retain roughly 70% flow through on an annual basis with quarterly fluctuations due to working capital and tax payments. On the first one, on the mobile market, we put out a blog. On a quarterly basis, we will have fluctuations depending upon just working capital and then also the timing of tax payments.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In light of the new security blog we posted this morning, we felt it was important to get the earnings release and guidance out before the market opened as well. I want to start by summarizing the update we shared in a blog post this morning related to the October security incident involving our support case management system.

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