The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2024

Riley also operates subsidiaries that provide asset management, brokerage, direct lending, investment banking, wealth management, and other services. Riley's troubles largely stem from a federal investigation of a hedge fund operated by Brian Kahn, a business partner of the company's founder and CEO, Bryant Riley.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2024

Bitcoin as a hedge against risk And investors are looking beyond Bitcoin's value as a speculative asset. They also view it as a potential hedge against political, economic, and geopolitical risk. Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones, for example, has likened Bitcoin to gold for this reason. As he sees it, U.S.

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Axial

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Axial is excited to release its Q3 2023 Lower Middle Market Investment Banking League Tables. These quarterly league tables reveal the top 25 investment banks active on the Axial platform in Q3. In Q3, 571 sell-side investment banks and M&A advisors brought a total of 2,360 deals to market.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 13, 2024

For example, high-profile investment banks such as JP Morgan or Wells Fargo could begin covering the stock from an equity research perspective. If more analysts from Wall Street's largest banks begin to regularly report on Palantir and its prospects, the company has a good chance to land on more investors' radar.

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Axial

JULY 27, 2023

Axial is excited to release its Q2 2023 Lower Middle Market Investment Banking League Tables. These quarterly league tables reveal the top 25 investment banks active on the Axial platform in Q2. In Q2, 771 sell-side investment banks and M&A advisors brought a total of 2,647 deals to market.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 24, 2024

Stax specialises in commercial due diligence, value creation and exit planning for private equity firms, PE-backed companies, hedge funds and investment banks, across software/technology, healthcare, business services, industrial, consumer/retail and education.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

From sifting through investor presentations and corporate filings to listening to earnings calls and watching interviews, getting a firm gauge on an investment often requires a lot of work. These are forms filed by investment firms managing over $100 million in stocks. One of the more high-profile hedge funds is Ken Griffin's Citadel.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Enfusion, a US-based provider of financial software for asset managers, is in discussions with investment bankers to explore strategic options, including a potential sale, with operate equity firms among the interested parties, according to a report by Reuters.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2024

But it was going to be in the investment industry, regardless. Mary Long: I know that you worked at a hedge fund in another life, how did you wind up there? Ron Gross: Graduated graduate school, and got my first so called real job in the investing world as an equity research analyst at Standard and Poor's.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 16, 2023

Silver Lake has hired an investment bank to explore options for Global Blue, which include a sale or capital market transactions, the sources said. It still faces headwinds, including price inflation and the prospect of an economic recession in Europe, which the company says it can tackle. billion valuation.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 25, 2024

Nevertheless, investment bank Goldman Sachs sees a different member of the Magnificent Seven as the clear-cut winner of the AI revolution so far. Hedge fund manager and Alphabet investor Bill Ackman cited Alphabet's "substantial distribution moat" as a unique feature for the company to sustain its lead in the AI realm.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 12, 2024

Nvidia has been a phenomenal long-term investment, with shares surging 2,630% during the last five years. Cohen, Griffin, and Schonfeld ranked among the most successful hedge fund managers during the first half of 2024, according to Business Insider. Instead, the lesson here deals with portfolio diversification.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 12, 2023

LSE’s cash and stock purchase of Refinitiv transformed LSE into a powerhouse vendor to hedge funds and investment groups using its financial data. Read more India’s Lok Capital seeks $200m for Fund IV, gets AIIB support Indian impact investor Lok Capital has secured USD 25m from Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 15, 2023

There's little incentive for people to buy homes other than for living in them," Shen Meng, a director of the investment bank Chanson & Co. Ken Griffin, the billionaire founder of the large hedge fund Citadel, recently said his economists think China's economic growth could come in better this year than some expect.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

CVC hired investment bank BR Advisory Partners Participacoes SA earlier this year to advise on restructuring talks. That, combined with the expectation rate cuts will begin in the second half of the year, has some local hedge funds turning bullish on equities.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 18, 2023

trillion of investments through 150 traditional mutual funds as well as several exchange-traded funds. Like any fund company, brokerage firm, wealth management outfit, or investment bank, T. There's a common misunderstanding in how the fund industry ultimately works, however.

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The Big Picture

JULY 22, 2023

Mian, who is the founder and managing editor at Stray Reflections , an independent global macro research and trading advisory firm with a focus on major investment themes. His clients include some of the world’s largest hedge funds, family offices, and institutional investors.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

For International Women’s Day this year, Private Equity Wire spoke to Meryem Bensaid, a Principal at Blackstone, and Private Equity Wire’s sister title Hedgeweek spoke to Trudi Usher Boardman , Head of Hedge Funds at Pictet Alternative Advisors. Tell us a bit about your background and how you got into private equity.

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Blackstone News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

BBDE intends to use the proceeds of the sale to fund its lending activities. Barclays Bank PLC, acting through its Investment Bank, served as exclusive structuring advisor to Blackstone in the transaction, to which it also served as risk retainer and liquidity facility provider.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 31, 2024

It is not monolithic and includes such varied enterprises as pension fund investment managers such as AIMCo , insurance companies, investment banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, mortgage investment companies – and still others. NBFIs provide stability and balance in the financial system.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

There are several real-time proxies of the unemployment rate, but one of my favorites is from the Conference Board. Very few people cover macro and markets as well as Francois and even when I disagree with him, I agree with him on the bigger picture, it's dismal.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 21, 2024

Several successful hedge fund managers sold shares of Nvidia during the first quarter, while simultaneously buying shares of the iShares Bitcoin Trust (NASDAQ: IBIT) , one of the recently approved spot Bitcoin ETFs. As mentioned, the top three hedge funds -- Citadel Advisor, D.E.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But if you don’t, if you grew up in a market, where there’s not an investment bank, there’s nothing other than a branch bank for one of the multi-dimensional financials, then you’re not really going to have an understanding of what that career looks like at a young age. Your parent may work there.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

Unlike several other megabanks, Bank of America's deposit base has grown over the past year, and it added 245,000 net new checking accounts and more than 1 million credit card accounts in the first quarter alone. Its investment banking market share is 115 basis points higher than a year ago. billion today.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We were originally very equity heavy back in the day, and we made a lot of investments on the fixed income side. We entered the liquid alts market with hedge funds back in 1994, and we entered the private market in 2014 with my product in late stage growth. So fixed income is now a substantial percentage of our assets.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 25, 2024

When I say institutional investors, I am referring to professional money managers like family offices, endowments, hedge funds, insurance companies, and investment banks. That includes banks like JPMorgan Chase , U.S. Bank , and Wells Fargo , as well as highly profitable hedge funds like Citadel, D.E.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

Nobody in the world writes about markets, finance derivatives, hedge funds, you name it, the way Matt does. It was underwriting, you know, it was like doing investment banking, underwriting public offerings. And it’s why he has such an amazing following. Over 300,000 people get his, his daily missive.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Mike Rockefeller of Woodline Partners launched what was one of the hottest new hedge funds in a long time. 2019, he came out of the gate having previously worked at Citadel, raising about $2 billion in the new fund. And they are not the typical hedge fund. They, they run a very specific sector focused type of fund.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

Operationally, we delivered our highest Q1 recurring sales in analytics in a decade at $14 million, our best-ever Q1 of recurring sales among hedge funds at nearly $11 million, and another quarter of double-digit subscription run rate growth of 11% among asset owners, driven by index and analytics. So, of the 7.6

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was between corporate law and investment banking. RITHOLTZ: So even back then, when it was the size that you could take a Christmas picture with everybody in one room at Goldman, they’re still doing investment banking. RITHOLTZ: Oh, really? KLINSKY: Yeah. They’re trading. They’re advising clients.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that was very important because when this was the dawning of what is now a big analyst program across the country in all banks and investment banks. There was no m and a departments in any investment bank really until the very late seventies. And I was fortunate to be accepted to both.

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The Big Picture

JULY 18, 2023

You start out spending five years at Ernst & Young doing hedge fund accounting. WAGNER: Yeah, I started as a certified public accountant and one of the early engagements that I was tasked with was in the space of asset management and I recall doing the audit on Jeffrey Vinik’s very first year as a hedge fund manager.

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The Big Picture

JULY 2, 2024

I remember there was one other hedge fund that did credit on these P two P lending platforms that was a few years ahead of us. And back when we were trying to raise our first fund, they had already raised a few hundred million. So in the early years we only had 10 million of assets, but we had billions of dollars of deal flow.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 8, 2023

As I recently reported , Bear Cave is not a traditional hedge fund or investment bank specializing in research on short selling, a strategy some investors use to try and profit from a falling share price. The Bear Cave is at it again; this time, the short-seller is targeting Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO).

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

That whole distressed debt department at city 00:06:31 [Speaker Changed] Banks are wanting to sell? I work for a really senior guy in the investment bank. It was very much a brokerage house with a growing, expanding investment bank. It wasn’t really a proprietary investing trading culture.

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The Big Picture

MAY 23, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, another extra special guest, Robin Grew, President of Man Group, $145 billion publicly traded hedge fund in the UK, and soon to be Man Group’s CEO. RITHOLTZ: Sure, all the little banking things, yeah. RITHOLTZ: Uh-oh. GREW: I know, this seems to be a process.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

She is an author and former hedge fund trader, specializing in distressed assets. Her book, “Damsel in Distressed: My Life in the Golden Age of Hedge Funds”, is really a fascinating read. It’s very witty and charming, and revealing about an industry in a way that most books on hedge funds simply are not.

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