Private Equity Professional

JANUARY 8, 2025

BlackRock made headlines in late 2024 through the firms acquisition of HPS Investment Partners , backed by their expectation that the private debt market will more than double to $4.5 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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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 12, 2024

Nvidia has been a phenomenal long-term investment, with shares surging 2,630% during the last five years. Steven Cohen of Point72 Asset Management sold 304,505 shares of Nvidia, reducing his stake by 55%. million shares of Nvidia, reducing his stake by 68%. Meanwhile, he started a small position in the Invesco QQQ Trust.

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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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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. Coca-Cola owns a stake in Monster Beverage , and Dorsey views the rise of energy drink Celsius as a big threat.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 9, 2024

Then all of a sudden it changes the table stakes because instead of having to think about what I'm going to say, instead of having to think like, how do I make this argument? And so he goes into this room of hedge fund folks, a couple of hundred of them, and none of them really know each other, they're from all over the country.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

KRISTEN BITTERLY MICHELL, HEAD OF NORTH AMERICAN INVESTMENTS, CITI GLOBAL WEALTH: It’s really interesting because I’m not someone that you would think would be the typical profile to end up in capital markets or — or sales and trading. BITTERLY MICHELL: … it was within hedge funds, for example.

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

And so for the longest time, I actually thought that my unconventional background, I wasn’t an Ivy League student, I didn’t train at an investment bank, I wasn’t working for a hedge fund, I started my career as a bank teller. In 2012 Facebook went public, the IPO flopped. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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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

JUNE 13, 2023

So that was a while back, but nonetheless, I don’t know if it was love at first sight, but we got to get along pretty well, and after a few years working for investment banks, he then joined Goldman Sachs. I joined, effectively, Deutsche Bank. We decided to try to have a go on our own. We were 28, 30 respectively.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. with a lot of hedge funds and so even better than the 20 is the 2 billion.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

They come in, they take a stake in a company. Sometimes it’s a minority stake, sometimes it’s a larger stake, and they help affect this massive change with great results. He was running the h and q investment bank, and then Roger was my next door neighbor and very good friends with Jim.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

You know, GE Capital, you have to understand, like, investment banking was so hot then. COHAN: Everybody wanted to be an investment banker. I mean, investment bankers were rock stars, right? COHAN: — because, you know, there were 72 partners and 72 non-partners in the investment banking group, so very small.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

That wiped out hundreds of millions of dollars of value from investment portfolios held by the Caisse and Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, which together owned a majority stake in Azure. per cent stake in the company. per cent stake in the company, valued at US $219 million. CDPQ became a 49.4

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

If you wanted that exposure, you were giving your money to a professional, a commodity trading advisor, or some hedge fund. And, you know, there were a lot of hedge funds talking about how to, how they were making 20, 30, 40% returns in commodities. I had, I I always assume good is table stakes at a place like Goldman.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 11, 2025

I would never recommend investing blindly without due diligence because large hedge funds invest over different time horizons than most retail investors and with distinct goals. Billionaires are buying in: Warren Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway took a stake in Citigroup in early 2022 and increased his stake in 2023.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 7, 2024

President-Elect Donald Trump's victory only stoked the flames, as investors saw an improving regulatory environment for banks, more mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and IPO activity, and continued economic growth. Here are some sales of AI stocks and bank purchases that billionaire hedge fund managers made in Q3, which ended on Sept.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

And all of a sudden, about 20 serious like major western investors, hedge fund managers, billionaires, proprietary trading desks, all say — all in unison say, wow, how come I didn’t know — why didn’t I know about this, we got to get involved. Big stake — big formally stake companies. RITHOLTZ: Giants.

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