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At The Money: How to Buy Alternatives

The Big Picture

January, 15, 2025) Hedge funds, venture capital, private equity, and private credit have never been more popular. Investors have lots of questions when allocating to these asset classes: How much capital do you need? How do you distinguish between private equity, private credit, hedge funds, venture capital?

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SoFi's Earnings Report Was Rock Solid. Here's Why the Stock Is a Screaming Buy.

The Motley Fool

Palihapitiya was long known within the tight-knit venture capital community of Silicon Valley, yet few mainstream investors knew much about him. That dynamic seemed to change virtually overnight, and a lot of it had to do with his support for special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). SoFi's current market cap is $7.7

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Jackson Walker adds Partner to corporate & securities practice 

Private Equity Wire

He has previously represented private equity funds, independent sponsors, public and private companies, search funds, family offices, founders and entrepreneurs in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, recapitalisations, debt and equity financings, venture capital transactions and joint ventures.

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Fundrise CEO Ben Miller Talks About the Fed, AI, and More

The Motley Fool

Because you used to have a 3% mortgage, instead you have a 7% mortgage, which means that if you're a company or you're a commercial borrower, and some individuals just can't support that, then they're going to have to pay down or sell. That's a deleverage, reduce the amount of leverage in the system. Are they feeling that pressure?

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Top 25 Lower Middle Market Investment Banks of 2023

Axial

Leveraging our M&A expertise, we have been successful in a broad range of sectors including business services, IT services, healthcare, industrial, software / hardware, consumer retail etc. We doubled in size in 2023, one of the worst M&A markets in the recent decade. Our fees are 100% performance based paid at close of transaction.”

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MSCI (MSCI) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

For example, our strategic partnership with Moody's meaningfully expand the reach of our sustainability content among banks, insurance companies and corporates. It would also help us broaden our private company ESG coverage and expand our capabilities within private credit. So that's what we're going after.

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SuperAngel.Fund x Q4 2023 Recap ?

SuperAngel.Fund

VC Activity ⬇️ According to PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association, 2023 saw the lowest level of venture investment activity in the U.S. This is roughly half of the amount invested in 2021 and highlights the reduced risk appetite for early stage private companies. since 2019.