The Motley Fool

JULY 2, 2024

At its peak two weeks ago, Nvidia briefly surpassed Microsoft and Apple to gain the title of "most-valuable public company." Renaissance Technologies was a buyer of Arm shares as well, but I left this well-known quantitative hedge fund off the list since its billionaire founder Jim Simons passed away in May.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 25, 2024

This is a document that outlines all of the stocks investors such as hedge funds are buying and selling. Like hedge funds, corporations can also take positions in other companies. Let's explore what company Alphabet is aggressively investing in, and why an acquisition doesn't seem out of the question.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

Always something to keep in mind, it was really interesting to note and the letter he quoted that from the peak in 1996 you had 7,300 US public companies, now we have 4,300 and he feels that total should have grown dramatically not shrunk, so that's a big delta there. Deidre Woollard: Tell me a little bit about that.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 13, 2024

Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) , the iconic coffee juggernaut, has caught the attention of an elite hedge fund determined to revamp the faltering business. The fund, Elliott Management, is an investment industry whale. It does so by securing board seats, ousting executive teams, and sometimes taking companies private.

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The Private Equiteer

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

PIPEs are private investments made in public companies, with no shares offered on the open market. Private equity firms use this method opportunistically to invest in public companies, typically taking non-controlling stakes.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

We were really pleased to grow native units in staking and custody. And so when there's more volatility in that long tail, we tend to get more market makers, hedge funds, as well as advanced traders, trading that long tail. Turning to subscription and services revenue, which was $556 million, down 7% quarter over quarter.

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Axial

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We are seeking opportunities that result in a majority stake or complete acquisition. We target companies in an EBITDA range of $1-4MM, in the food, beverage, and agriculture sectors, and ideally located in the Midwest.” ” Visit Lead Lap’s Profile “Now in its fifth decade, Sowell & Co.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

What are the key issues at stake? We brought together over 400 institutions that included hedge funds, asset managers, also included some global regulators and others. First, I just wanted to drill into the take rate a little bit more because it looks like it expanded to the highest level since Coinbase became a public company.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 14, 2023

But if you look across the world of the entire stock market, I'm not sure there's any public company that is more correlated to Bitcoin itself. I will note it's back to nearly 457 months later. Now I'm not saying this is a straight-up one-to-one proxy for Bitcoin. The market cap, by the way, $5.9 billion of Bitcoin.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 10, 2024

Although he doesn't manage a public company or hedge fund like Buffett and Griffin do, he's donated a boatload of money to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. The most recent transaction involving Caterpillar came in 2022 Q1, with the sale of roughly 24% of the foundation's stake in the company.

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The Big Picture

MAY 7, 2024

He was a hedge fund guy. I know you’re an investor in a lot of early stage companies, but when someone says, what do you do? I try to get, you know, a significant stake in a company and something that I believe in and something that I can help accelerate. 00:54:23 [Speaker Changed] The company itself.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2024

Carly Wanna and Carmen Reinicke of Bloomberg report hedge funds pump up exposure to Nvidia, cut AMD: Hedge funds continued to lean into the biggest technology companies leading the way in artificial intelligence as the hype propelled the US stock market higher in the first quarter of the year. and Microsoft Corp.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Barry Ritholtz : 00:10:55 [Speaker Changed] But those are just table stakes. Well, Lynch is awesome, but Will Danoff, who actually started within months of when I did, has added more dollars of value than any single fund manager, including hedge fund managers. What you want is open-mindedness. Just amazing.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Continuation funds will become more popular as a way for managers to exit investments without selling at depressed prices. Fee structures may change, with pressure on public companies to reduce management fees and focus on performance-based compensation.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

3) CPP Investments sold stakes in German offshore wind assets: Toronto, CANADA (November 3, 2023) – Canada Pension Plan Investment Board ( CPP Investments ), through its wholly owned subsidiary CPPIB Renewables Europe S.à stake in two German offshore wind assets, Hohe See and Albatros. to sell its 24.5%

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Pension Pulse

JULY 12, 2023

billion through both direct investments and funds. Among noteworthy transactions, we acquired a significant minority stake in Authority Brands, a residential services platform with 15 brands that provide industry-leading residential and care-giving services from 1,900-plus locations throughout the United States and the world.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Retail investors today have access to a large amount of information about public companies. Not only do we get quarterly reports to update us on how companies are doing, but there are also resources that show us what others' opinions are on any given stock. Wall Street analysts are optimistic about the stock too.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

public company by market cap, exceeding the market value of all other asset managers. AM generated a 13% gross return for the BPS Composite over the past two years, a remarkable achievement in liquid markets and well ahead of the hedge fund index. These funds will earn fees following their respective fee holidays.

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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. I wanted a company that was in a different place in their life cycle… RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Below, I'll explore how billionaire investor Jeff Yass of hedge fund Susquehanna International Group (SIG) is investing in crypto. During the past year, the fund has increased its stake in Coinbase 17-fold, from roughly 51,330 shares to 877,400. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

They invest primarily in private and public companies. This is really a fascinating conversation, not just because of his acumen as a venture investor, but one of the things that Brad is passionate about is making every child in America feel like they have a stake in the country. And we’ve seen those companies go down.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

And they essentially take companies as varied as tire manufacturers and industrial producers and retailers, and find intelligent ways to use technology to make these companies more efficient, more productive, more profitable. They come in, they take a stake in a company. But that was really the fundamental insight.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Whereas all the other public companies had access to capital and managed to get into trouble. RITHOLTZ: So, you go from Lazard to Merrill to JPMorgan, tell us about those other experiences, how do they compare to Lazard which seems much more unique, being in a public company versus a partnership. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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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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