The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Following my comments, David and Jesse will provide additional comments regarding our investment strategy, investment portfolio, financial results, capital structure and leverage, and our expectations for the first quarter of 2024, after which we'll be happy to take your questions. Net asset value, or NAV, increased by $0.87 at year-end.

Capital 130

Capital Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Asset Management Leveraging 130

SuperAngel.Fund

JANUARY 19, 2024

If I am doing my job right the first time in “picking winners”, at least for a few subsequent rounds, our best deal flow should come from our existing portfolio. With the average financing process taking up to six months from start to finish, most will need to fundraise in 2024. since 2019.

Startups 69

Startups Due Diligence Deal Flow Angel Investors 69

Axial

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Technology ranked 4th in deal flow but had the highest average pursuit rate, 8.76%, of all sectors. See below for the full Q3 deal activity overview on the Axial platform, and for a more detailed breakdown by industry, check out The SMB M&A Pipeline: Q3 2023. Mr. Kerchner, Mr. Clark, Mr. Fay, Ms.

Investment Banks 52

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2023

Following my comments, David and Jesse will provide additional comments regarding our investment strategy, investment portfolio, financial results, capital structure and leverage, and our expectations for the third quarter, after which we'll be happy to take your questions. We are very pleased with our performance in the second quarter.

Capital 147

Capital Asset Management Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Assets 147

Axial

JUNE 6, 2023

Ability To Finance Deals The surveyed Independent Sponsors unanimously agreed that the ability to finance deals is critical for success due to the historic concerns associated with it. Family Office and SBIC Investment Funds rank in the top 3 sources of equity financing for Independent Sponsor deals.

Deal Origination 52

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Axial

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

million in EBITDA seeking a growth-oriented partner and distressed businesses that are over leveraged and/or operate in out-of-favor sectors. We provide a wide range of financing structures, which include subordinated debt with warrants, preferred stock, and common equity. Source Capital has offices in Atlanta and San Francisco.”

Private Equity Firms 59

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The Motley Fool

JULY 24, 2024

I would now like to turn the conference over to Reuben Treatman, senior director of corporate finance. Reuben Treatman -- Director, Corporate Finance Thank you. We are very well-positioned to execute on our pipeline and stay well within our stated leverage range without any additional capital. Please go ahead, Reuben.

Debt 130

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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.

Financing 130

Financing Finance High Net Worth Individuals Pension Funds 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We also leveraged gross profit by 76 basis points and grew adjusted EBITDA by 18%. She is an experienced financial executive with deep knowledge of Grocery Outlet's business and over 14 years of leadership in finance. million at the end of the fourth quarter with net leverage less than one times adjusted EBITDA. Hi, it's RJ.

Banks 130

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2023

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg News also reports Ontario Teachers’ makes bond bet as economic clouds gather: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is making a bigger bet on bonds and credit and is adding leverage to pay for it. The fund’s leverage soared during the first half, with funding for investments rising 47 per cent, to $145 billion.

Pension Funds 52

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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.

Leveraged Buyouts 59

Leveraged Buyouts Buyout Pension Funds Mergers and Acquisitions 59

The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

I would now like to turn the conference over to Brian Hawthorne, director of corporate finance. Brian Hawthorne -- Director, Corporate Finance Thank you. While the net lease transaction market continues to sort itself out, our team is doing a tremendous job leveraging our relationships and uncovering unique opportunities.

Debt 130

Debt Capital Leveraging Financing 130

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.

Banks 130

Banks Assets Mergers and Acquisitions Investment Banks 130

The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

We're buying as well as financing several firms that design, build, and service data centers. We recently financed a cloud infrastructure business supporting AI development. They create more flow for our investors who want to hold these investments, these assets long term, and they help our partners better serve their customers.

Assets 130

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 29, 2024

Domo was founded to help organizations leverage their data more effectively. The number of joint deals in our pipeline being worked between us and CDW partners has increased from zero to over 60 deals over just the last two quarters. This represents a completely new source of deal flow.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Debt Deal Flow Investors 130

The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

OBDC continues to benefit from its flexible balance sheet and well-diversified financing structure. billion, and we ended the quarter with net leverage of 1.13 Our franchise continues to win this important role across some of the most attractive deals in the market. Again, we're financing at 40% loan-to-value.

Capital 100

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The Motley Fool

JULY 14, 2023

Our platform strategy has delivered scale and operating leverage through time, with 240 basis points of margin expansion in the last 10 years. Markets have improved since the end of 2022, and we aim to be disciplined in driving profitable growth by prioritizing investments to propel our differentiated organic growth and operating leverage.

Asset Management 130

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The Motley Fool

MAY 3, 2024

Importantly and atypically, over half of our Q1 debt brokerage deal flow was on non-multifamily assets in retail, hospitality, industrial, and office. Reduce the borrowing costs, allow the owner to lock in long-term fixed-rate financing, and also derisk the bank's balance sheet. Those are two examples. But there are other areas.

Debt 130

Debt Banks Assets Capital 130

Udu

MAY 31, 2023

This will bring about intense competition among firms for the best deals and may lead to a seller’s market. Fewer Large Leveraged Buyouts Tighter monetary policy and a more uncertain macroeconomic outlook make large lenders more hesitant to finance large leveraged buyouts.

Leveraged Buyouts 52

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SuperAngel.Fund

JANUARY 6, 2023

According to Cooley, which handles more venture financings than any other law firm in the US, the amount of capital invested, and number of financings, have decreased substantially in the last quarter , with the most pronounced impact affecting later-stage deals (Series C and beyond). .” gross multiple.

Venture Capital 52

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Revenues benefited from a stronger gain on sale margin compared to the same quarter last year due to the mix of transaction activity that was weighted more heavily toward agency financing volume this quarter. We are leveraging our data and technology to understand those deals, meet with those customers, and win their business.

Debt 100

Debt Capital Assets Banks 100

Pension Pulse

AUGUST 24, 2023

It’s the first full fiscal year since CalPERS ramped up its private equity investments with a $25-billion bet while increasing the use of leverage and allocations to private debt. The gain left CalPERS holding $462.8 billion, enough to cover 72% of its future obligations, unchanged from a year earlier. The results were mixed.

Pension Funds 52

Pension Funds Debt Assets Banks 52

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

We also provide financing to help IOs with new store start-up costs, and we offer cash flow support as needed during the early years as stores ramp. Our buyers are doing a fantastic job partnering with suppliers, and we are seeing healthy deal flow across categories. We deploy capital to build new stores.

Deal Flow 100

Deal Flow Banks Education Debt 100

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

As we look forward, deal flow is significant. You know, with SOFR or Fed funds in the mid-fives now, if you think about anything SOFR plus something, you're going to get again to that 8% to 12% on leverage return spectrum. From a financing perspective, the transaction will be funded with cash and liquidity on our balance sheet.

Capital 100

Capital Asset Management Assets Shareholders 100

The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2023

Now, turning to our balance sheet and cash flow, Alliance had another strong quarter of cash generation with $153.5 million of free cash flow before growth investments in the 2023 quarter, an increase of 88.7% Our total and net leverage ratios were 0.4 year over year and 9.7% versus the sequential quarter. Good morning.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Capital Debt Deal Flow 130

The Motley Fool

JUNE 7, 2024

I know on the service, this may seem a little out of left field, but I think it makes a lot of sense is that it will help a company leverage its massive network of users and exposure to e commerce. Then the final one is office. Office is the one that a lot of people are scratching their head about what's the solve for B and C class office?

Assets 130

Assets Capital Asset Management Companies 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And general and administration expenses were over $61 million compared to roughly $56 million in 2022, reflecting good operating leverage supporting the growing business. As a reminder, we own 50% of our large office and lab facilities and have financed from our balance sheet their construction. Thanks for joining for Puneet there.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And you can go long, you can go short, you can have leverage, you could have higher exposure levels, but the securities are in the liquid public markets versus private equity, which are in illiquid private markets. 00:45:53 [Speaker Changed] So where does your deal flow come from? It sounds like very competitive space.

Hedge Funds 62

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

The exposure you get in investment banking, I was a leveraged finance banker by background. And so late 90s, that’s the emergence of the high yield market in Europe, you would print deals like never before. And there was no hint at the time that I would be heading into finance. I think it was a great training.

Banks 57

Banks Asset Management Assets Capital 57

The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

This strength is offset somewhat by a softer environment for bank loans and structured finance. We'll leverage leading technology regardless of whether it was developed at Kensho, developed elsewhere within the divisions or come via a vendor or a partner. There's not a lot of deal flow. And then, U.S.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 100

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And I think a lot of investors and, and lenders and really lost their way and agreed to terms and conditions that in under today’s market environment would not be acceptable levels of leverage that would not work. And it’s a, a reasonable way to do financing depending on what risk level the, the bar the lender wants to assume.

Private Equity Firms 52

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Debt Banks 52

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

Financing volumes for the GSEs were down 23% year over year to $2.7 The GSEs have been sluggish in their lending over the past 18 months, but we are seeing them lean in on deals over the past month and expect higher volumes from them in the second half of 2024. billion, up 16% year over year. Thank you for your time this morning.

Assets 130

Assets Debt Financing Finance 130

The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

KENCEL: Well, the deal everybody thinks about in that era, and kind of the defining deal was RJR. KENCEL: “Barbarians at the Gate” and the financing. But we became one of the most active lenders and financing sources and investors to mid-sized U.S. And they were doing mid-sized deals. Yes, right. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Private Equity Firms 57

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2024

As markets improve, we expect execution on our financial rubric to drive profitable growth and operating leverage. The bigger longer-term opportunity is leveraging our engines in Aladdin and indexing with our capital markets expertise to build the machine for the indexing of private markets. Our as-adjusted operating margin of 44.1%

Assets 130

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 12, 2024

As markets improve, we remain committed to driving operating leverage and profitable growth. Looking forward, we'll continue to prioritize investments with differentiated organic growth potential or that will expand operating leverage through enhanced scale. Today, Aladdin is much more than that.

Performance Fees 130

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

increased by 40 basis points year on year as we continue to drive operating leverage and profitable growth after the market shock of 2022. Looking forward, we're prioritizing investments to propel our differentiated organic growth and operating leverage. Our fourth quarter operating margin of 41.6%

Assets 130

Assets Shareholders Capital Asset Management 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

We continue to focus on refinancing every loan maturity in our portfolio, finding new refinancing opportunities in other lenders' portfolios using our Galaxy database, and placing financing on every sale transaction our investment sales team is marketing. We continue to invest in our business even after our April reduction in force.

Asset Management 100

Asset Management Financing Finance Assets 100