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OCTOBER 6, 2024

billion in new investment from the likes of Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) , Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) , SoftBank (OTC: SFTB.Y) , Cathie Wood's Ark Invest, and more. The two companies agreed to collaborate on AI development, with a specific goal to help expand the AI capabilities of Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Only one private company has managed to do this at scale, SpaceX, with its huge reusable rockets and landing pads. Nipping at SpaceX's heels, Rocket Lab has built a successful niche in the space economy and is now the second private space flight company to consistently and reliably launch payloads into orbit.

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JUNE 17, 2023

Cathie Wood, the CEO of Ark Investment, has made a name for herself by betting on cutting-edge technology with financial technology stocks, or fintechs, and biotechnology growth stocks making up a significant part of her exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Intellia has a strong cash position, with $1.2 billion as of the end of the first quarter.

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AUGUST 26, 2023

Although artificial intelligence (AI) investing has been a hot-button topic in 2023, investors have lost interest since the market began its decline about a month ago. As a result, investors should consider companies with more than one business segment than just AI, as it can help insulate your portfolio from the highs and lows of the market.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Cathie Wood is the founder and chief executive officer of Ark Invest, an asset management company focused on disruptive technologies like blockchain and cryptocurrency. The investment thesis for Bitcoin The investment thesis for Bitcoin is based on good old-fashioned supply and demand. The bull case prices Bitcoin at $1.48

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APRIL 20, 2024

Private equity and venture capital firms typically have access to investments that are not available to everyday investors. In turn, large investment firms gain access to opportunities that aren't typically found on public exchanges. Nevertheless, investing in start-ups can be extremely appealing. What's in the fund?

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JANUARY 27, 2025

The fund will focus on high-growth, mid-sized European businesses, with equity investments ranging from 50m to 300m. These include the acquisition of a majority stake in Diam, a provider of merchandising solutions for the beauty and luxury sector, and Vecos, a smart locker company. Read more: [link] Can’t stop reading?

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MARCH 17, 2024

They also invest differently. Here are three perhaps surprising ways the ultra-wealthy invest their money. Private equity The super-rich put plenty of money in stocks just as many Americans do. However, alternative investments comprise roughly 50% of assets owned by the ultra-wealthy compared to only 5% for the average investor.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

Not only does Guardian bring deep sector expertise, but our firms share a collaborative culture and strategic vision primed for delivering continued investment and powerful results for our stakeholders. The acquisition of Team LINX highlights private equity’s growing focus on digital infrastructure as demand for data capacity surges.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Initially launched in beta in September, AI Analyst is already available to over 150 institutional lenders active in Arc’s private debt marketplace. The company plans a broader rollout in early 2025 and has opened a waitlist for new lenders. Thousands of companies currently use Arc’s tools for capital management and market access.

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MAY 24, 2024

government subsidized private companies to make the COVID-19 vaccine, the government actually has a stockpile of H5N1 virus candidates that could be used to make vaccines. If used, the resulting shots would actually be a government vaccine, although the government would hire private companies to help manufacture the drug.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

Private company SpaceX successfully launched and "caught" its 20-story Starship rocket as it returned to Earth, a key step in making its large rocket reusable and ready for human missions to the Moon and Mars. Now, with companies such as SpaceX, the space economy is on the verge of taking a great leap forward.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

SoFi is making SpaceX more accessible SoFi (NASDAQ: SOFI) announced that it's partnering with alternative investment-fund platform Templum to bring several new investment options to its brokerage customers. The Cosmos Fund exists to hold only one investment -- SpaceX stock. Can you invest in SpaceX through the Cosmos Fund?

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

Connection Capital, a London-based private markets and alternative investment platform, has added to its co-investment team with the appointment of Caitlin Cameron from Gresham House as an Investment Associate.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The tech sector giant's share price improved by more than 2% across the trading session thanks to that news, which came from a private company in which it's heavily invested. Should you invest $1,000 in Microsoft right now? if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $652,404 !*

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Riley Financial provides financial services including investment banking, wealth and asset management, business advisory, and asset disposal. The company was a big beneficiary of the blistering investment activity seen in 2021. Blackstone Secured Lending Fund invests in underserved companies and sports a 11.2%

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Layan Odeh of Bloomberg reports CPPIB plows at least $5 billion into private equity in three months: Canada Pension Plan Investment Board poured at least $5 billion into private equity in the last three months of 2024 as the asset class regained appeal. The investments included a 24.5% billion 10-year net return of 9.2%

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

At the time, SPACs were a hot investment topic and companies were coming public at a rapid clip via this route. Basically, investors fund a SPAC via a more traditional initial public offering (IPO), seeding it with cash with the expectation that the SPAC will find an attractive private company to buy.

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MARCH 26, 2025

Where to invest $1,000 right now? All this is in an environment where Archer will face increasing competition, including Joby Aviation, China-based EHang , and several private companies developing alternative eVTOL aircraft. Should you invest $1,000 in Archer Aviation right now? Is Archer Aviation stock a buy?

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JUNE 28, 2023

billion, alternative investment group with offices in Paris, New York, and Nassau (Bahamas). GEM manages a diverse set of investment vehicles focused on emerging markets and has completed over 480 transactions in 70 countries. read more British Columbia Pension Mulls $2bn PE Asset Sale British Columbia Investment Management Corp.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

Rose Street Partners, a long term-oriented investor in UK private companies, has acquired Fuelsoft, a software provider for the fuel distribution industry, marking the firm’s inaugural investment. Rose Street’s investment is intended to support product development, customer support and expansion of the company’s team.

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MAY 5, 2024

You make a smart investment in an outstanding business, and it rewards you with bountiful cash returns year after year. Here are two high-quality companies that could pay you lucrative cash dividends for the rest of your life. As the largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ) in the U.S.,

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JUNE 22, 2024

However, it has gotten a bit expensive from a valuation standpoint, which has some investors looking elsewhere for AI investments. I'm in that camp, but fortunately, plenty of AI companies are worth buying right now. Both companies' shares are trading at reasonable valuations, and both are always fantastic businesses.

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JANUARY 13, 2025

Net-asset-value (NAV) loans, which layer additional leverage onto private companies already burdened with significant debt, have come under scrutiny, particularly when buyout firms use them to fund distributions rather than growth.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

JPMorgan Chase wants to save bankers the time, headaches and intern-wrangling it takes to get the lowdown on other companies. The financial institution is seeking to patent a system to " automatically discover and extract information " on public and private companies.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Private companies launch satellites weekly at a fraction of historical costs. While all three companies face significant hurdles on their path to profitability, they offer investors early access to potentially revolutionary technologies. That said, these three stocks are inherently high-risk investments.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

Practically every investor wants to become a millionaire from stock investing. It takes years to identify and buy strong companies at good prices. Even with those fantastic investing points, TSMC's stock trades at a fairly attractive 24 times forward earnings. Alphabet is also investing heavily in cloud computing.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) has raised around $1.2bn across two new funds, the North Haven Expansion Equity IX fund and North Haven Expansion Credit II fund, which will make later stage growth equity and credit investments.

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APRIL 20, 2024

However, Meta's stock isn't trading like any of these investments will work out. META PE Ratio data by YCharts At 25 times forward earnings, Meta is still valued around the same levels as it has been for the past five years when it was just a social media company. However, this has been a promising proposition for many AI companies.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

Dividend investing is a tried-and-true strategy for building long-term wealth. It may not be as sexy as buying the hottest hyper-growth stocks or cutting-edge technology companies, but dividend stocks can be the tortoise that drives steady portfolio wealth when looking at a multi-decade period. And it does take time. in 10 years.

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APRIL 22, 2024

All this being said, SpaceX remains a private company, and not something that most investors can invest in. Rocket Lab, in contrast, as a publicly traded stock, is something you can invest in. Only invest in it if you have a lot of patience, and a lot of tolerance for the risk that the bet may not pay off at all.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

These proven wealth builders can provide you with reliable and steadily growing streams of income while adding ballast to your investment portfolio. Ares Capital If you'd like to earn even more dividend income from your investments, consider Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC). With an average yield on total investments of over 11% as of Dec.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

Ripple Labs is a private company, but Claver argues that it could use a stock sale to raise operating capital and legitimize the XRP-based payments system. Moreover, the Ripple organization is investing heavily in the payment platform's infrastructure right now.

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DECEMBER 14, 2024

Why Amazon is interested in nuclear power Amazon's investment will give it "first access" to any power produced at the site, which it can use to run its Pacific Northwest data centers. In October, Amazon (alongside four other investors) invested $500 million in X-energy, aiming to eventually develop five gigawatts of SMRs across the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Rocket Lab was founded in New Zealand in 2006, and it became the first private company in the Southern Hemisphere to reach space with its launch of the Ātea-1 suborbital rocket in 2008. Should you invest $1,000 in Rocket Lab USA right now? if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $729,857 !*

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JULY 11, 2024

Alphabet's investments are starting to pay off Alphabet has long been a force in artificial intelligence (AI). With 60% of funded generative AI start-ups and 90% of generative AI unicorns (private companies worth at least $1 billion) using its services, it has a strong foothold in this emerging market.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This expansion makes cloud computing a must-invest industry. Cloud computing has widespread use across many industries The basis of cloud computing is that a company purchases a lot of computing power, and clients can rent out some of this computing power for a specific task. trillion by 2030. and Amazon.com wasn't one of them!

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