The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

First up is the power of our unique ecosystem, a system that connects each step of the journey from finding and financing a home to servicing the title and closing and the journey beyond. There's no additional acquisition costs for clients in our ecosystem, creating even more operating leverage. Let me share just two quick examples.

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Private Equity Professional

MARCH 27, 2025

Mr. Kuehn has more than 25 years of leadership experience across finance, operations, and executive management in the construction and infrastructure services industries. It was important to maintain their individual brand identities while also leveraging the benefits of a consolidated national platform.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This marks one of the few significant acquisitions in Europes leveraged finance market amid a scarcity of M&A activity in recent years. The two banks are leading the leveraged loan financing, which will be syndicated to institutional investors next month. Capitals acquisition of Kantar Media.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The recent dividend cut at the Brookfield Real Assets Income Fund (NYSE: RA) led to a significant fall in the share price and called into question the sustainability of dividends in many closed-end funds. Closed-end funds with massive yields It's not hard to see why closed-end funds are attractive to investors.

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Private Equity Professional

JANUARY 8, 2025

The State of the Game The private credit arms race has taken the industry landscape by storm, with Ken Moelis citing the shift as the greatest change in the history of transactional finance. [1] In late 2024, Wendel Group acquired a majority stake in Monroe Capital , and Third Point (Dan Loebs hedge fund) acquired AS Birch Grove.

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Private Equity Professional

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

“Jewett Automation has an outstanding reputation for leveraging cutting-edge technical expertise and delivering custom automation solutions across diverse industries,” said Shirish Pareek , an industry partner at McNally Capital. McNally Capital is currently investing out of its committed buyout fund, McNally Capital Fund II LP.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 19, 2023

They have made it more expensive for the data-center real estate investment trust (REIT) to borrow money, affecting its ability to finance its expansion. That has weighed on its share price, causing concerns that the company might need to cut its dividend to help fund growth. That gives it lots of flexibility to fund the difference.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

The financing package includes a unitranche loan of about $3bn intended to refinance PCI Pharmas current debt, the unnamed sources said. PCI Pharmas current financial obligations include a $1.9bn leveraged loan, approximately $700m in preferred equity, and other liabilities. percentage points over SOFR.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The fund attracted both new and existing investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurance companies, consultants, and multi-family offices. He noted a growing demand for Balbecs asset-based and specialty finance strategies as investors seek diversification. Can`t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 28, 2025

The upcoming fund is likely to exceed its original fundraising target and come in around 20% larger than its predecessor. BC Partners has also entered a strategic financing alliance with investment bank Piper Sandler to support banks and specialty finance companies.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 9, 2024

To fund these up-market investments, we are reallocating a portion of our mid-market investments. To that end, we are leveraging the learnings from early service engagement to develop new tools to accelerate future modernization efforts. In the long run, we expect to automate and simplify large parts of the modernization process.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

According to a recent study by Hartford Funds, in collaboration with Ned Davis Research, analysts found that dividend-paying companies have delivered annualized returns of 9.17%, outperforming the S&P 500 index with less volatility over the past 50 years. BDCs tend to use leverage to help boost their payouts.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2025

It generates income through the spread between the yield of the mortgages it holds in its portfolio and its funding costs (the short-term debt it takes on to buy the MBS). For example, if funding costs were 4% and it bought a mortgage-backed security with a 7% yield, it would earn a 3% spread on its investment.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Buyout firms have long relied on controversial loans backed by equity stakes to enhance fund returns, but growing investor criticism has triggered a slowdown, according to a report by Bloomberg UK. This shift partly reflects a rebalancing of power, enabling LPs in private equity funds, such as pension funds to exert influence over GPs.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 21, 2025

The brand is set to launch and begin delivery in April, leveraging NIO's [Inaudible] network for rapid market expansion. Foreign language] And regarding your question on the efficiency improvement and also the synergies can be leveraged between two brands. So, if we see our net cash position at above 25 billion.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2025

We have robust plans that leverage the demand for flavor and the strength of our brands. Our team remains focused on returning to our long-term growth algorithm, strengthening our profitability, continuing our strong cash flow, paying down our debt, and reducing our leverage ratio. McCormick remains a growth company. Thanks so much.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Carlyle Group has secured private credit financing to acquire a majority stake in Australian waste management company Waste Services Group (WSG), according to a report by Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the matter. The funds will support Carlyles purchase of the stake from Livingbridge, the anonymous source said.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 17, 2024

The strategy includes investing fresh software-business cash flows into more Bitcoin holdings, taking on new debt, and selling stock on the open market to finance further cryptocurrency buys. So if you believe that Bitcoin will rise in value over time, you can see MicroStrategy as a leveraged play on that trend.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 13, 2023

It provides alternative financing to middle-market companies across a wide range of industries. There shouldn't be any issues for Ares Capital to fund its juicy dividend. The demand for financing alternatives for the middle market also continues to increase. However, the fund trades just as a stock does.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

CrowdStrike Holdings (NASDAQ: CRWD) : CrowdStrike leverages AI in its cybersecurity platform to detect and prevent threats in real time. The company continues to develop AI for various industries, including healthcare and finance. Its software is used in areas such as defense, healthcare, and finance.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Ark Invest offers investors access to a host of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), the majority of which are comprised of emerging technology businesses. Every evening, Ark Invest sends out an email to its followers that breaks down what stocks the funds bought and sold during that day's trading session. Wood is different.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The potential move comes as private equity firms look to exit older investments after a period of slowed deal-making, largely due to high interest rates that have increased the cost of financing leveraged buyouts.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 19, 2023

The first two points resulted in a mad rush to the exits, as many derivative traders were forced to liquidate their heavily leveraged Bitcoin and Ethereum positions. At The Motley Fool, we generally caution against leveraged trades of any kind. According to crypto derivatives data tracker CoinGlass, $1.05

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The Motley Fool

MAY 6, 2024

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has dominated headlines for much of the last few months due to the arrival of spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) along with its most recent halving, which occurred on April 19. To remedy this, its developers plan on leveraging Layer 2 networks to promote scalability.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 27, 2025

Additionally, we are leveraging innovation as a strategic differentiating tool to meet available demand and stay ahead of market trends. On the technology front, Newmar is beginning to leverage advanced 3D product development technology to successfully reduce the time to market for innovative products like its Super C Grand Star.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

As an operating business, we are able to use cash flows, as well as proceeds from equity and debt financing, to accumulate bitcoin, which serves as our primary treasury reserve asset. These capital market levers allow us to deploy intelligent leverage to increase our Bitcoin holdings in a manner which we believe has created shareholder value.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 31, 2025

With interest rates expected to decline, leveraged finance activity is forecasted to rebound, allowing private equity firms to execute more acquisitions with lower borrowing costs. Blackstones fourth-quarter inflows totalled $57.5bn, bringing full-year inflows to $171.5bn.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The partnership was established with a $1bn commitment to Blue Owl’s credit platform and will initially focus on its technology lending strategy, which provides financing solutions for several technology and software companies, Mubadala said in a statement on Monday. “We

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 7, 2024

But that was because the cryptocurrency has had more than two straight weeks of daily inflows into Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). MicroStrategy has a leveraged position in Bitcoin so it's not surprising its stock price has exaggerated the move in Bitcoin.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Following my comments, Dave and Ryan will provide additional comments regarding our investment strategy, investment portfolio, financial results, capital structure and leverage, and our expectations for the fourth quarter, after which we'll be happy to take your questions.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 23, 2024

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

PineBridge Benson Elliot (PBBE), a pan-European real estate private equity specialist, has closed its sixth fund, Benson Elliot Real Estate Partners VI (Fund VI), with 500m in total committed capital as of February 2025.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 5, 2024

Leverage unemployment benefits and other subsidies Even if you're not working, you might still have some income through unemployment benefits. Many state and local governments have established funds or subsidies specifically designed to help residents maintain housing stability during tough economic times.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 11, 2023

That enables Enbridge to retain a significant amount of cash, which it uses to fund expansion projects while maintaining a strong balance sheet. Enbridge expects its leverage ratio will be in the lower half of its 4.5x-5x That provides additional financial flexibility to fund its growth while increasing its dividend.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

They need to borrow lots of money to fund acquisitions and property development. Given their leverage to interest rates, REITS should benefit when they start falling. It will make it cheaper for the REIT to borrow money to fund acquisitions and development projects. Falling rates should benefit Realty Income.

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