The Big Picture

JANUARY 30, 2024

Are these all run independently or are they run as part of a big conglomerate or a little bit of each? 00:05:59 [Speaker Changed] So over my two plus decades at the company, the answer is yes and yes, right? Funko Inc is a pop culture company. It’s a public company. That’s the signature item we sell.

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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. KKR took a stock exchange company called who Houdaille, private, and it was the first time there’ve been — RITHOLTZ: ’79 or something like that? It was between corporate law and investment banking.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

BARATTA: The media conglomerate? textbook company, Houghton Mifflin, back when there were actually textbooks in schools. And so, in terms of where our teams are spending time, it’s in and around sort of public markets. RITHOLTZ: — firms or private equity firms? BARATTA: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: Sure. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

You know, GE Capital, you have to understand, like, investment banking was so hot then. COHAN: Everybody wanted to be an investment banker. I mean, investment bankers were rock stars, right? RITHOLTZ: Whereas all the other public companies had access to capital and managed to get into trouble. Too valuable.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

prosecutors have also charged Gautam Adani , widely considered to be Asia’s second-richest man, and two other executives at a Indian green energy company that is part of a conglomerate he controls with several fraud-related charges in connection with the alleged scheme. In 2019, his company, Adani Green Energy Ltd.,

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