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The Blackstone Bombshell That Just Shook PE Industry

Pension Pulse

Scott Pelley: What did the educators at Walnut Middle School tell you? No pension fund wants to invest in private companies that abuse immigrant children. I used to invest in top global hedge funds back in the day and I trusted nobody. How can this happen? Where did oversight fail?

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Motley Fool Co-Founder David Gardner Helps Set Investors Up for Long-Term Success

The Motley Fool

When you're investing in managed mutual funds, you're handed a tax bill near the end of every year that you didn't have much control over, and the average managed mutual fund turns over 70% to 100% in a given year. You can decide whether you want to cash in and increase your tax bill this year or not. We're out.

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Transcript: Eric Balchunas

The Big Picture

But I covered derivatives at first, and then I cover mutual funds. I worked for a (inaudible) called Fund Action and did that for a little while, and then went — I met a guy named Duff Ferguson at AllianceBernstein. They’d be the biggest active mutual fund to shop times over. RITHOLTZ: It’s …. He was the P.R.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: So were you — in the early days, it was mutual funds it was SMAs, what were you guys doing? That new name of the company became Franklin Templeton. So it was Franklin, along with mutual fund pioneer Sir John Templeton. If you’re a private company, you don’t have any of those pressures.

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Transcript: Joe Lonsdale, 8VC

The Big Picture

00:13:04 [Speaker Changed] So the most of what APAR focuses on our private, our public markets, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs. But you also said, Hey, this private market thingy is gonna get big one day. And so today, if you’re not accessing private markets, you’re gonna get left way behind your returns.