The Motley Fool

JUNE 16, 2023

A lot of companies, they can't get a lot of venture capital, they can't really go to the IPO market right now. Something that was surprising to me was that on Wall Street, they didn't want to do the options for financial instruments like stocks and mutual funds, where you could bet on the future price of a security.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 28, 2024

Indeed it goes against most of how Wall Street operates and what mutual funds do, which is they constantly rebalance a lot of index funds rebalanced every quarter. Go where the money is, that includes venture capital money. Where is that? It's a good idea to keep your eye on that.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

And then there was venture capital and private credit and hedge funds. SEIDES: There are pure benchmarks in venture capital and private equity that you can use, and then you can aggregate those across the asset classes to get a benchmark for the pool as a whole. There were commodities before anybody had any idea.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Apparently, venture capital is a cruddy asset class where you can't get returns over the long term. Not only that, but there's a "Series A Crunch" that we've been talking about since October of 2011 where good companies can't seem to get to their next round of funding. Venture capital works largely the same way.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 10, 2024

I question how socially responsible mutual funds are because do you know the manager of that fund? I appreciate our mutual fund friends. I'm sure there are some very good socially responsible mutual funds, but I question whether it's socially responsible to invest in them. Does that person know you?

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Now run the same exercise for Mutual funds, ETFs, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, etc. In the United States, Between 500,000 to 1 million new books are published annually via traditional publishers and another 2 million plus get self-published.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 24, 2022

And so there was a lot of need on the active mutual fund friends. And so my coverage list kind of converted over time to focus more on mutual funds, to focus on five to nine plans, college savings. RITHOLTZ: So these are stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds? And he found it in the mutual fund space.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

And so if you compare that to today, if you remember Oaktree raised $15 billion fund in 2020, on its own. So it was a starting industry, very much sort of a venture capital type of business. RITHOLTZ: It’s mutual funds. It’s hedge funds. So the magnitude is not even comparable. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 17, 2024

We didn't have to have venture capital. Robert Brokamp: As I'm reading, of course, are learning everything right now only about stocks but mutual funds like the basics. But of course, I learned about index funds. Index funds beat mutual funds. But yeah, people were paying per minute.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

Hey, I want to do venture capital. There are an endless variety of business models and seeing how people operate that, it’s really an education, one that I think a lot of people coming out of school don’t think about, because you think about the sexy things. I want to do this, I want to do that.”

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The Big Picture

JUNE 11, 2024

Because this isn’t like, we’re not a hedge fund, we’re not a mutual fund. Some are actually doing private investments in house, kinda creating their own venture capital fund versus buying others. You gotta have people that know what they’re doing and they care about people, right?

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The Big Picture

APRIL 25, 2023

I mean, at first, I got out of undergrad, and a degree in finance coming out of a small college at the time, Quinnipiac College, the gigs I was offered were essentially customer service jobs at mutual funds, call service, manning the phones, which I was no stranger to. He had experience working within, with a venture capital firm.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 15, 2024

00:13:04 [Speaker Changed] So the most of what APAR focuses on our private, our public markets, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs. You wanna, you, you wanna have an aligned model where we all make money together by accessing the best things and private markets, especially venture capital. Eight vc, a venture capital firm.

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The Big Picture

JULY 29, 2024

And then I fell in love with technology and product development, moved from there to strategy, then moved from there to investment product development, worked on Schwab’s first ETF offerings, their equity mutual funds, fixed income mutual funds. 00:05:32 [Speaker Changed] Another very substantial custodian.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

. ’cause when you’re, you were chairman of the Yale Endowment Investment Committee, David Swenson was famously the creator of the Yale model, and he had a lot of focus on private investment, on alternatives, on venture capital, hedge funds, as well as commodities. A slow wide river of flow over time.

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