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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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 22, 2023

Wellington Management has held the final close of its fourth private late-stage growth strategy, Wellington Hadley Harbor IV, with $2.6bn in capital commitments and over $200m in co-investment capacity to invest alongside the fund. Source: Private Equity Wire Can’t stop reading?

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Riley Financial (NASDAQ: RILY) , Blackstone Secured Lending Fund (NYSE: BXSL) , and Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC). These companies offer some of the highest-yielding dividends you can find, but investors should keep a few things in mind before buying in. Blackstone Secured Lending Fund invests in underserved companies and sports a 11.2%

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Pictet Alternative Advisors, the Pictet Group’s alternative investment business, has launched the Pictet Private Assets SICAV – Environment Co-Investment Fund I ELTIF, which is aiming to broaden investor access to environmental technology investments across private markets.

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APRIL 20, 2024

Private equity and venture capital firms typically have access to investments that are not available to everyday investors. Well, to put it simply, these funds raise capital from ultrahigh-net-worth individuals called accredited investors. Let's dig into the fund, and assess whether investing like a billionaire is right for you.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

High-net-worth investors who are interested typically invest their money through private equity funds. Private equity is risky, and there's no guarantee it will outperform the market. Private equity funds often use a "2 and 20" fee structure -- a 2% management fee and a 20% cut of any profits. Not necessarily.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

At the time, SPACs were a hot investment topic and companies were coming public at a rapid clip via this route. Basically, investors fund a SPAC via a more traditional initial public offering (IPO), seeding it with cash with the expectation that the SPAC will find an attractive private company to buy.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

But even within a family office, a billionaire can direct financial experts to purchase specific company shares. A prime brokerage A prime brokerage is a group of services offered to ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWI) or hedge funds. But UHNWIs, including billionaires, may also be invited to participate in private placements.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

Private, employee-owned investment firm Neuberger Berman has launched the NB Direct Private Equity Fund 2024 and the NB Global Private Equity Access Fund, both of which aim to make global private equity offerings more accessible to retail investors.

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MARCH 26, 2025

Department of Defense contracts, further expanding the company's market opportunity. billion in total liquidity, Archer Aviation believes its current funding represents ample resources to achieve its objectives. With more than $1.1 Is Archer Aviation stock a buy? Despite the risks, I'm cautiously bullish on Archer Aviation stock.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

This chart shows how well these three REITs have performed since 2009 against the benchmark Vanguard Real Estate ETF , an exchange-traded fund that typically holds about 160 REITs. It's a weighted index fund, and these three REITs are among its largest components, further underlining their sector outperformance. REITs by that measure.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Partners Group, a Swiss-based global private equity firm with $147bn in assets under management, is targeting $12bn for another private equity secondary strategy fund that will focus on deals in the Asia Pacific region, according to a report by Reuters.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) has raised around $1.2bn across two new funds, the North Haven Expansion Equity IX fund and North Haven Expansion Credit II fund, which will make later stage growth equity and credit investments.

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JUNE 9, 2024

Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) is the only company besides SpaceX with re-entry capabilities for spacecraft. And yet, as we sit here today, its shares have a measly valuation of just $2 billion compared to SpaceX's reported $200 billion as a private company. Public market investors like profits.

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JUNE 22, 2024

Among its client base are some of the hottest start-ups, including 60% of funded generative AI start-ups and 90% of generative AI unicorns (private companies with valuations above $1 billion). Many generative AI start-ups have done this, as it is a more efficient use of capital.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In October, the FDIC completed the sale to Goldman Sachs and PNC Bank of $18.5bn in more than 200 funded loans paid out to borrowers from Signature Bank. The moves bolstered the banking industry’s support for the private equity sector, a major source of financing for private companies and property transactions.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

In recent videos and social media posts, the wealth manager highlighted the following catalysts for a higher XRP price: Several financial giants are going through the paperwork of creating exchange-traded funds (ETFs) based on XRP's real-time spot price. Putting that legal saga to bed should boost XRP's real-world utility and token price.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This information is valuable to almost any company, but especially for investment banks and money managers that need to be well informed when making decisions. The company provides corporate credit ratings for public and private companies. It tracks 500 of the most valuable public companies in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

According to a report issued last year by the Hartford Funds, in collaboration with Ned Davis Research, dividend-paying companies have generated an annualized return of 9.18% over the past half-century (1973-2022). I'm talking about smaller, generally unproven private companies. in a two-year period, ended Sept.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) has held the final close of the 1GT climate private equity fund (1GT) at $750m of equity capital commitments, with a number of institutions in Europe, Japan and North America leading the investor group.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

In other words, Ark identifies eight sources of potential demand that could make Bitcoin more valuable in the future, as detailed below: Corporate treasuries: The cash and cash equivalents held by public and private companies. Remittances: Funds sent from one person to another. Several national governments also own Bitcoin.

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DECEMBER 14, 2024

To help get the ball rolling, Amazon will ante up $334 million to fund a "multiyear feasibility study" before work begins. Well, it turns out that the Washington project, although owned and operated by Energy Northwest, would use SMRs manufactured by a private company called X-energy.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Cathie Wood 's Ark Venture Fund, which invested a reported $250 million. Reports suggest it will have a loss of $5 billion this year, which means the $10 billion in combined funding it's about to receive from investors and banks will barely last two years. SoftBank, which invested $500 million.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

Committed Advisors has held the final closing of its fifth secondary fund, Committed Advisors Secondary Fund V (CASF V), with €2.6bn of total capital commitments, surpassing its original €2.4bn fundraising target.

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AUGUST 5, 2023

Fund them through trusts and wills Trusts and wills can be critical to ensuring your wealth benefits your descendants in the way you intend. Work with financial advisors to choose the best educational funding ideas for your family. Here are three great ways to do that. Image source: Getty Images.

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APRIL 10, 2024

The largest of her funds at Ark Invest -- where she's a co-founder and CEO -- is down 7% this year, a contrast to the markets trading slightly higher in 2024. The same skills that made it popular as a government contractor are playing well with private companies.

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APRIL 30, 2024

Private equity Have you ever read about a company that makes an interesting or compelling product only to learn that you can't invest because it's still private? Generally speaking, investing in private companies is off limits to most investors.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

About 60% of funded generative AI start-ups and almost 90% of generative AI unicorns (private companies worth at least $1 billion) are Google Cloud customers. As these companies grow, their usage will increase, which will turn into greater revenue for Alphabet. But its momentum might just be starting.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

Qualtrics said that it expects the transaction to close in the second half of 2023, after which it will be a fully private company once more. Read more Cathay Capital Announces Final Close of $270 Million Growth Private Equity Fund Cathay Capital Private Equity, a leading international investment firm, announces the final.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2023

As Ars Technica (again) reports, the contenders today are: an unnamed private equity fund, an unnamed aerospace company, and Blue Origin. On the first question, although Blue Origin is a private company and so does not disclose its finances, it is owned and financed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Ares is a leading business development company ( BDC ) based in the U.S. As a direct lender, it supplies the capital that private companies need to fund and grow their operations. At its current yield of 9.5%, this financial stalwart offers one of the largest cash payouts in the stock market.

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JULY 11, 2024

Because most companies can't afford to spend millions of dollars to build and operate their own supercomputers to train AI models, renting that processing power from a cloud computing provider is far more economical. Each cloud infrastructure provider has its specialties, and AI appears to be one of Google Cloud's.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

The stock market is a proven wealth generator over the long term, even for conservative investors who buy index funds. It sank hundreds of early stage start-ups, and Netflix was still a private company, so it was incredibly hard for it to access funding. Netflix was founded in 1997.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

ChatGPT's parent company, OpenAI, announced a new version of its flagship program aimed at enterprise businesses. While the Microsoft -funded start-up has been consistently in the mix of companies disrupting the AI landscape, other names have quickly emerged as potential leaders as well. billion in 2023.

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AUGUST 17, 2024

From this perspective, it's not unlike a mutual fund. The remainder reflects the value of all the wholly owned private companies that also help make up the conglomerate. It's not a stock in the traditional sense. Rather, Berkshire is a basket of stocks hand-picked by Warren Buffett and his lieutenants.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

The rest of Berkshire's value comes from its insurance businesses, ownership of BNSF railroad, Berkshire Hathaway Energy , and other private companies. yield of the S&P 500 or the yield an investor can get from a low-cost energy sector exchange-traded fund (ETF) like the 3.3% billion in cash as of June 30.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

When SoundHound AI was still a private company, it raised hundreds of millions of dollars, primarily from venture capital (VC) firms. However, the company also attracted funding from a number of high-profile technology firms, including Tencent and Samsung.

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