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Here's How Billionaires Buy Stocks

The Motley Fool

A prime brokerage A prime brokerage is a group of services offered to ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWI) or hedge funds. These are called private placements, and most of the time, the shares are sold to investment banks or hedge funds.

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How to value illiquid investments

Private Equity Wire

PARTNER CONTENT By Muhammad Akram, CPA Founder, Akram | Assurance, Advisory & Tax Firm Why fair value is so important Fair value impacts net assets/partners’ capital, potentially overstating performance and overcharging management and performance fees.

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Alaska Permanent Is Reconsidering Private Equity

Pension Pulse

Last year, APFC’s staff decreased its private asset allocation from 19 percent to 15 percent, hypothesizing that there were better risk-adjusted returns to be had in asset classes like fixed income and hedge funds. The holdings are in different allocations including cash, hedge funds, and tactical opportunities.

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Transcript: Dominique Mielle

The Big Picture

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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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Ilana Weinstein Discusses the Hedge Fund War for Talent , is below. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ Ilana Weinstein on the War for Talent at Hedge Funds (Podcast) ANNOUNCER: This is Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio.

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CDPQ's Head of Liquid Markets Discusses Mid-Year Results

Pension Pulse

Financial reporting As at June 30, 2023, the annualized costs incurred for CDPQ’s activities, which include internal operating expenses, external management fees and transaction costs, were estimated at 55 cents per $100 of net average assets, compared with 48 cents as at December 31, 2022.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

And they also have a unique approach to feeds when they’re generating alpha, when they’re outperforming their benchmark, they take a performance fee. And when they’re not generating alpha, when they’re underperforming, they actually return fees. 00:24:31 [Speaker Changed] We refund the fee.