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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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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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BlackRock (BLK) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

We expect these private market assets to positively impact BlackRock's overall effective fee rate by 0.5 Performance fees of $388 million increased significantly from a year ago, primarily reflecting strong alpha generation over the last 12 months from a hedge fund with an annual lock in the third quarter.

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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: 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.

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Transcript: Mathieu Chabran

The Big Picture

And I think this is where the industry should be heading.

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