Blackstone News

JULY 9, 2024

He led investment banking activities including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital raising, structured finance and syndicated lending, supporting Citi’s broader banking client base and international businesses in over 95 countries.

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Hellman & Friedman LLC

AUGUST 16, 2024

As a result, we will offer our customers, trade partners, OEMs, and financing partners in Europe and Canada better services and more innovative solutions.” The company is comprised of AutoTrader.ca , AutoHebdo.net , LesPac.com, AutoSync , Dealertrack and Collateral Management Solutions. More information on www.autoscout24.de

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

“It gets back to the ability to grow the operating performance of the companies and making sure that returns” come from that rather than from “financial leverage,” he tells Bloomberg. And the use of PIK and other forms of so-called “back leverage” makes it even more difficult to get a clear picture on the state of privately owned companies.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

Plus, Motley Fool host Alison Southwick and personal finance expert Robert Brokamp answer listener questions about tracking investments, leveraged shares, and life insurance. Could anyone shed some light on how leveraged shares such as AMZU, NVDU, SOXL on the bullish side and others on the bearish side operate? or 3x leverage.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

Earnings available for distribution exceeded our dividend by $0.03, demonstrating our ability to consistently earn strong returns with prudent leverage, which stood at 5.8 And consistent with prior quarters, we favored high-quality prepayment-protected collateral with durable cash flows. return for the first half of the year.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2023

Nonetheless, we're working to drive further reductions in unit costs, which will help us generate greater operating leverage as we deploy capital into portfolio growth and while at the same time, deepening our competitive mode until no one can compete with us. billion, resulting in liquidity of 2.3

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

MicroStrategy is well positioned to gain competitive leverage in winning both of these areas of growth. Much like we have done with cloud hyperscalers, we plan to openly partner with and leverage the technology investments in these companies. Rather than invest heavily to build our own models.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

Our ability to manage through this volatility is attributable to our diversified capital allocation, prudent hedge portfolio, and responsible leverage position. And even with the reduction in leverage from 6.4 Now turning to details on financing, funding markets remain ample and liquid. times to 5.8 billion for the quarter.

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Blackstone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With slower bank and leveraged loan growth, demand for partners in private credit is high. Private credit provided 65% of loans for the leveraged buyout (LBO) market in 2021 and 86% for the market as of year to date 2023. First, a low fund leverage profile increases fund liquidity and/or capital available for investment.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 16, 2024

PARTNER CONTENT F und finance is witnessing exponential grow th, b ut this comes with escalating operational requirements for sponsors and lenders as they scale these facilities. Keeping pace with growth The use of fund finance has grown exponentially in recent years, as demand for both subscription lines and NAV lending has ballooned.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 16, 2024

According to Fitch, however, property values “are still adjusting to higher borrowing costs, a scarcity of available financing and a general repricing of assets,” especially office properties that have suffered from falling demand as hybrid working takes hold.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

And I don't know if you've seen our new facility up in Vista or Rochester, but we're poised as we start scaling all these new platforms up for substantial volume leverage. As we get volume leverage, you get supply chain leverage, you drive greater automation. What is the conditional on? So, that's part of the driver.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

Walt joined the bank in 2015 and brings 18 years of experience in the financial industry, including various finance, treasury, accounting, audit, and deposit analytic roles. Lastly, a comment or two on operating leverage before we move on to the most surprising development at the SBA since we started this bank. Moving to Slide 5.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

With the commitment to Luna Valley and Daggett I along with the offer for an investment into an enhanced Pine Forest project complex and financing structure, we continue to complete actions on our checklist toward providing further visibility into growth beyond the previously established target of $2.15 Turning to Slide 5.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

By leveraging AI, we will transform an industry that is ripe for innovation, establishing Rocket as the premier choice for clients and partners, including local real estate agents, mortgage brokers and financial institutions. Today, we're in an even better position to drive operating leverage through automation and AI.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And we achieved these results with lower economic leverage, which declined to 5.7 We believe that our performance on the year demonstrates the value of our diversified housing finance model and our disciplined portfolio and risk management. turns at the end of the quarter. The MSR portfolio had a three-month CPR of 2.9%

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

billion point-of-sale financing business, which will augment the existing offerings in our home and auto and health and wellness sales platforms. In closing, Synchrony is focused on leveraging our core strengths to optimize our business position and build our long history of delivering steady, growth, and strong risk-adjusted returns.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Oak Hill Advisors (“OHA”) served as a Lead Arranger for the unitranche financing to fund Bain Capital Private Equity’s (“Bain Capital”) acquisition of Harrington Industrial Plastics (“Harrington”) from Nautic Partners.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2023

Loan production in the quarter was again diverse across multiple areas with particular strength in our middle-market sponsor finance vertical, our solar business, and our general lending small business verticals. It is collateralized. It was a collateralized loan. Turning to Slide 10. As for growth, pipelines do remain healthy.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

As an operating business, we are able to use cash flows, as well as proceeds from equity and debt financing, to accumulate bitcoin, which serves as our primary treasury reserve asset. These capital market levers allow us to deploy intelligent leverage to increase our Bitcoin holdings in a manner which we believe has created shareholder value.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

These supply agreements for Euro 6 and Euro 7 LPG systems add materially to our revenue and market share and leverages our existing engineering and production capabilities. million net cash used in our financing activities consisting of the $8.7 Second, it does give us flexibility from financing standpoint.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2023

billion in liquid assets to pay pension benefits, fund investment opportunities, satisfy potential collateral demands related to our use of derivatives, and to fund expenses. billion while remaining within our 10% leverage limit. Liquidity We continue to maintain ample liquidity, with $23.6

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2024

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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. KKR & Co.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

Thanks to fast portfolio growth and impressive operating leverage, servicing income reached $273 million. Finally, we did an outstanding job generating positive operating leverage, with expenses up only $6 million sequentially, despite our rapid growth. On a year-over-year basis, the portfolio is up 33%. We run them.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Chris joined us in January of 2019 as vice chairman and CFO and quickly enhanced the finance function, implementing bank-like processes as well as pushing for efficiency gains and deleveraging. And instead we focus on those things we can control, namely process improvement, cost leadership, and operating leverage.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

As previously announced, we are providing build-to-suit financing for Andretti Karting locations in the greater Kansas City area and Schaumburg, Illinois. The increase in mortgage and other financing income of $2.7 We feel good about our collateral and feel good about the situation kind of no matter what happens.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 12, 2024

We fully integrated our financing and securitization capabilities within our Markets business, and we started to see the benefits of having a unified spread product offering for our clients. We generated positive operating leverage this quarter as expenses decreased 4% driven by actions taken to rightsize the expense base.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

In fact, you couldn't ask for a better demonstration of operating leverage. We reported pre-tax income of $288 million, up 58% year over year, reflecting the benefits of growth in operating leverage, while CPR speeds came in slightly below expectations. These results reflect strong growth, with the portfolio ending the quarter at $1.2

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

Yale didn’t even have a programming in finance. This was back in the late ’70s, early ’80s and he was just teaching people all they needed to know about finance, which was just coming up. So, that all — I was totally in the sort of finance bubble, first kind of market microstructure, trading mechanism.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

And by leveraging generative AI, we can deliver great client experiences at scale by handling more interactions and keeping more clients engaged with better automation. Recent data shows that clients using chat have conversion rates three times higher compared to those who didn't leverage chat.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 19, 2024

And is there maybe a pull-forward of some expenses from next year in order to position you for improved positive operating leverage? So, it's important when you consider all this, our revenue and expense, that we are firmly committed to generating positive operating leverage over the back half of 2024. Five of those are office related.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In the coming months, we expect to release an optional feature that allows borrowers to provide collateral to support their personal loan application. We also expanded our finance offering with 88 dealerships now offering Upstart auto lending, up from 27 a year ago. Expecting to reach 90% of US consumers by the end of this quarter.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

Now, I'll turn it over to Scott to discuss in more detail the financial results for the quarter and financing activity. To give you a little overview of what's going on in the financing markets, I mean, we do see them improving. Year to date, as a frame of reference, over $3 billion of mall deals have been financed.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As a 27-year veteran of Prudential, Yanela is a seasoned executive who brings a deep understanding of our business and industry as well as significant finance, operations, and leadership experience. We have cash and collateral balances that earn short-term yields. I'm sure you'll enjoy getting to know her as she starts her new role.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

And lastly, the final priority on the list, but arguably the most important is starting the path to reduce leverage and derisk the balance sheet. Given the necessary actions we took to navigate the past few challenging years, our leverage ratios are currently not at optimal levels. We've covered a lot today.

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