This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Henry told me that I should start a fund--me, a 27 year old former VC analyst turned product manager with no MBA at a startup that wasn''t really headed in any particular direction. It''s probably the first time I''d really ever had the thought of starting my own fund. So thanks for playing Inception, Henry.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 10, 2023

The company pops open its hood after 100,000 auctions to explain why. Wall Street Journal ) • The Backlash Against ESG Faces Its Own Backlash : Pension funds in red states say culture-war policies are interfering with the market and could cost retirees and taxpayers billions.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

Charlie is a nice guy, but his company failed.". He hasn't founded or built either a successful, let alone innovative company, and he hasn't raised $ to invest in those entrepreneurs. If* you believe that a good venture capitalist should have launched their own company and exited, then I simply don't have that track record.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

While it is never easy to raise a “blind pool” of capital, Mukul Gulati, president and chief investment officer of Zephyr Peacock India, says India is on everyone’s radar and pension funds and large endowment funds are sitting on a large pool of money. The so-called ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Phenomena) is well and truly history.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2013

A lot of companies that probably shouldn't get funding will get it, because of the novelty of the platform and the momentum investing that tends to characterize individual investors. These crowdfunded companies will pour a lot of new money into the market for human capital, driving salaries up. Then, reality will set in.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2015

One of the first things I did when I joined the venture asset class as a lowly institutional LP analyst in 2001 was to build the VC fund cashflow model. Just about every analyst who looks at fund investing has built one. It's also not the "average fund". It's not perfect. Venture capital is all about finding the extraordinary.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

Back in 2004, I was working for the General Motors pension fund, which had been making limited partnership investments in venture capital since the early 1980’s. I got to see all of the top VCs pitching their funds. Technology has already made the world pretty efficient.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

It just seemed like a fitting title for a company built around narrative by a founder who used to write stories for a living. It's a story that just hit a milestone--a $4mm round of venture funding that I'm ecstatic to say Brooklyn Bridge Ventures just led. I'm actually coming in not just through the fund, but also personally as well.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 2, 2024

 At The Money: Finding Overlooked Private Investments , with Soraya Darabi, TMV (October 02, 2024) The Efficient Market Hypothesis informs us that stock markets reflect all of the information known about any company. But is that also true for start-ups and venture-funded private companies? And by the way, one quarter of U.S.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 21, 2020

” A management rights letter is a short agreement between a company and an investor to allow them certain “management rights.” While it is nice to have these “rights”, the need for this letter actually has very little to do with how venture capital firms want to work with a portfolio company.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

Mr. Hill will join OMERS in September, the public pension fund announced Wednesday, and report to Ralph Berg, who took over as the chief investment officer in April. Around that time, previous infrastructure head Annesley Wallace left OMERS and took a position at energy infrastructure company TC Energy Corp. billion ($1.86

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 5, 2024

Vanderbilt University Endowment, the University of Illinois Foundation and existing investors also participated in the extension to a January funding round, lifting Bilt’s valuation to US$3.25 OTPP, the Canadian pension fund, owns Willow Bridge Property Co., billion from US$3.1

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Gillian Tan, Swetha Gopinath and Layan Odeh of Bloomberg report OMERS to stop making direct private equity investments in Europe: The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System will stop making direct private equity investments in Europe as the pension fund overhauls its operations there, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Advocacy groups have accused the private fund industry of unfair, conflicted and opaque practices that hurt everyday Americans who invest in such funds through their pensions. It's not as if some state pension fund benefits from opacity," SEC Chair Gary Gensler told reporters after the panel's vote.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 2, 2024

She has been an early investor in companies that went public such as FIGS, Casper, and CloudFlare, as well as startups like Gimlett and Lightwell, that were later acquired by Spotify and Twitter. billion dollar startups have a founder who came here as a student. And by the way, one quarter of U.S.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And I’ve been investing in a lot of computer companies over the years. And I actually finished my PhD in ’99, but I started a company in late ‘96, early ‘97. And I was kind of doing the company and the thesis at the same time, which wasn’t great for either, and also wasn’t great for our marriage. WENGER: No.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 25, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Teachers' invests in portable battery company aiming to replace gas-powered generators: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is leading a US$95-million funding round for Instagrid GmbH, a German maker of portable battery systems designed to replace gas-powered generators.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential. trillion in buyouts, highlighting its resilience and impressive growth.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential. trillion in buyouts, highlighting its resilience and impressive growth.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. 00:09:07 [Speaker Changed] I think sometimes, but I, you could also take that and apply it to a company, right? So you end up going from the fund of funds to pension funds. Absolutely.

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The Big Picture

MAY 23, 2023

How to recruit and retain the best people and how to use technology as a tool to give you an edge, not just in investing but in the ability to offer clients various solutions improving your efficiency, effectiveness and productivity as a company. And I think you will also. And it is slightly surreal. How old is Man Group? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

First, these companies, they were sort of self-interested advice. I then was doing journalism for Breakingviews, which was the sort of dot-com startup, FX FT people known by Reuters, and started doing some — and then I did some research for Crispin Odey, London hedge fund guy. We were sort of doing our job.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

I found this conversation to be absolutely fascinating if you’re at all interested in things like hard debt and what distressed asset buying is like, and what it’s like to take over a company, not through its equity, but through its defaulted debt. 00:24:05 [Speaker Changed] What, what sort of companies was it?

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. And so it was a whole new idea, I found it very interesting.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 22, 2023

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada Pension Plan Investment Board joins startup at $100 million Reforestation Fund: Canada’s largest pension fund has joined a project to produce carbon credits by planting more than 100 native tree species on degraded land in Brazil’s Amazon region.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2023

Different from public equity, where investors buy a stake in a publicly listed company, private equity refers to the private ownership of non-listed firms or of those that were once public and have been since taken private. The second is through private equity funds run by private equity firms, such as KKR and Blackstone. In the U.S.,

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 3, 2024

The nation’s market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), last month stayed the implementation of its climate-related disclosures by public companies in the face of multiple legal challenges from attorneys general of several Republican-led states. How can pension funds take part in the new nuclear revolution?

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Published Road to Zero: Decarbonization Investment Approach Progress Report through the CPP Investments Insights Institute, which shares learnings from the Fund’s first year implementing its decarbonization investment approach. The approach involves supporting portfolio companies as they reduce emissions to build value over the long term.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The company responded to the lost revenue by retrenching expansion plans and slashing jobs. The company needs as much as US$1.2 In addition to BMW and Volkswagen AG , Northvolt’s top investors included Goldman Sachs’s asset management arm, Denmark’s biggest pension fund ATP, Baillie Gifford & Co.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 2, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports HOOPP names infrastructure expert Annesley Wallace as its next CEO: The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan has named Annesley Wallace as its next chief executive officer, reaching outside the organization to choose a leader with expertise in infrastructure investing and strategy. billion ($80.2

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Daniel Johnson of Bloomberg reports fall economic statement: Ottawa seeks to lower pension fund investments caps: The federal government announced a move to ease limits for pension funds investing in Canadian companies in its latest fiscal update, along with responses to tariff threats from the U.S.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

Start with valuation, what is a company worth and why, move towards what are the things that drive valuations, and then expand out to what happens to valuations over the lifecycle of a company, and why those life cycles are getting increasingly shorter over the past few decades. What can I say about his breadth and depth of expertise?

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Companies Hoarding Workers Could Be Good News for the Economy : Employers have been burned by a labor shortage. The upside of a gilt market crisis : Ballooning pension fund surpluses and improved funding ratios — what’s not to like? Bloomberg ). Will that make them act differently if the economy slows down? ( Upshot ). •

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