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RedBird IMI Secures $750m Deal to Back Barclay Family’s Telegraph Bid

Private Equity Insights

International Media Investments will be a passive investor only.” The prospect of foreign influence on the politically influential title has already raised concerns among senior ministers including Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat, Bloomberg News reported Saturday.

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Forget Individual Consumer Stocks: Buy This ETF Instead

The Motley Fool

Thus, while investors should not forget individual stocks, some may prefer to invest in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) instead, to hedge against failed retailers. Fortunately, investors have numerous choices in ETFs tied to consumer discretionary stocks. Here's why. What is the VanEck Retail ETF?

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Private Credit, Meet “Higher for Longer”

Blackstone

From March 2009 when the S&P 500 traded at 13x earnings to August 2020 when it peaked at 23x, a passive investor in the market earned 16% per annum. Referencing the Lincoln International Private Market Database (“Lincoln”), 13 allows investors to compare and contrast this point.

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

The Big Picture

What lase pointed out in his paper was that passive had to transact during periods in which there was index rebalancing. 00:20:33 And so in that period they ceased to be passive investors, they became active investors, and that became an opportunity for outperformance.

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Barrick Gold (GOLD) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

Additionally, we are actively evaluating our first set of early stage properties in Ecuador with six prospects currently under review, all of which are promising. Now that -- how you analyze the portfolio, the current share price does not come close to reflecting the fair value of our asset base and our prospects.

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Transcript: David Einhorn, Greenlight Capital

The Big Picture

Passive investors have no opinion about value. If your view is, is there’s a great oil prospect and look at this, well it’s going to be amazing, well then go ahead buy that oil company because that’s what your insight is. Those are opinions about price. Those are not opinions about value.

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