The Motley Fool

JUNE 25, 2023

What investors may want to know about the upcoming merger between WWE and the UFC. Ricky Moldy caught up with Thompson to discuss the early days of mixed martial arts, the upcoming merger between WWE and the UFC, and what it takes to be the Alpha of a cage fighting organization. He's just gone from agency to acquisition.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When Berkshire closed its acquisition of General Re, it became the owner of NEAM. But after more than $40 billion in concessions following the merger of WarnerMedia with Discovery to create Warner Bros. Image source: Getty Images. As of Sept. Discovery , AT&T's net debt has shrunk to $128.7 billion, as of Sept.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Then, Motley Fool analyst Buck Hartzell joins host Alison Southwick and Motley Fool personal finance expert Robert Brokamp to kick off a series on Berkshire Hathaway , and how the conglomerate's collection of businesses work together. Also active brokerage accounts continuing to climb even after the TD Ameritrade merger. That's up 4%.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 10, 2023

In a release, the fund attributed the small loss to the declining values of fixed income assets — bond prices tend to fall when rates rise — and foreign exchange losses from a stronger Canadian dollar relative to the U.S. In its last fiscal year the fund reported a 1.3-per-cent For the quarter, the Fund’s net return was negative 0.8%.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 22, 2024

Ian Bickis of The Canadian Press reports CPP Investments earned 8 per cent in latest fiscal year, net assets rose to $632 billion: Canada's biggest pension fund earned an eight per cent return last year, but significantly underperformed the 19.9 The Fund returned a 10-year annualized net return of 9.2%. billion in net income and $15.9

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The Big Picture

JUNE 11, 2024

Peter is the guy I look to when I wanna learn things about how to build a firm, how to grow organically, how to think about acquisitions, how to structure your company, really to become an enterprise as opposed to merely being a business. You did no acquisitions. You’re working as an attorney for an advisory firm.

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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. The head of mergers and everyone watched over me there.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The expense ratio for each fund is just 0.1%, or $1 for every $1,000 invested -- which is reasonable considering it would be difficult to replicate the level of diversification these funds offer. Here's what's driving each fund and whether they are worth buying now. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Klarman's fund, the Baupost Group, has done quite well, generating annual returns of 20% over the last three decades, according to institutional-investor intelligence service Hedge Fund Alpha. The company plans to appeal the court ruling and is likely to fight any attempts to make the conglomerate sell its Chrome browser.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So, by the time I got there, it was well beyond just, you know, financing customer acquisitions of appliances. COHAN: Well, basically, what became General Electric, which was a merger of two companies, you know, sort of what was a pioneer in bringing electric power, the generation of electric power, and then creating the electric power grid.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Tell us how you went from retail to mergers and acquisitions. And, and just to, to wrap up the M&A, you win another Loeb award in 2016 covering the Dow DuPont merger. That was a giant merger. Going back to its origin story, Bezos works at hedge fund Quant Shop de Haw. I covered Kodak, like you said.

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