The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 3, 2024

The nation’s market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), last month stayed the implementation of its climate-related disclosures by public companies in the face of multiple legal challenges from attorneys general of several Republican-led states.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 30, 2024

And, you know, it’s always hard to compare a dollar invested in the core business that’s gonna return, you know, 60 cents versus a dollar invested in the new business, which you know, is your future, but that’s gonna lose money outta the gate, right? Funko Inc is a pop culture company. It’s a public company.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

There’s definitely been proof of concept for large scale institutional investors and even retail investors, that we can produce sustainable, predictable, above public market returns. And we’ve become better at what we do in buying control of companies, engaging with them, making them better, helping them grow.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

Explain Matt Levine : 00:14:13 If a bad thing happens at a public company, public company does a bad thing. If the CEO sexually harasses someone, the company gets hacked. Well, 00:33:14 He, so I actually think that in hostile public company m and a, it is not that uncommon to not do due diligence, right?

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

WENGER: Yeah, that had really been my goal since my own first startup in ’96, ‘97, which was a company called W3Health that ultimately failed. From that experience, I realized that I really loved startups, but then I was never going to be good operator, but I thought I could maybe be a decent investor. Why is that? WENGER: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

JULY 2, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : That raises the question, if they’re going really, really well, why would anybody want to take outside funding when they wanna see it through and maximize their returns? Eva Shang : So at the time that we launched, there were already public companies that were doing litigation finance.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

? ?. The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Steve Case on AOL, Startups & Venture , is below. And if you are at all interested in technology, venture, startups, entrepreneurship, I suspect you will also. And in our early days, we really just tried to figure out like many startups get noticed to stay alive.

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Startups Venture Capital Crowdfunding Mergers and Acquisitions 69

The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KKR took a stock exchange company called who Houdaille, private, and it was the first time there’ve been — RITHOLTZ: ’79 or something like that? And so it was a whole new idea, I found it very interesting.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 15, 2024

And so today, if you’re not accessing private markets, you’re gonna get left way behind your returns. He is the co-founder of Palantir, as well as a number of other finance and technology related startups. I have a lot of strong opinions about private markets, right?

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American Investment Council

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Private equity continued to deliver strong returns for American workers’ retirement savings. AICs 2024 public pension study found that private equity delivered a median annualized return of 15.2 percent over a 10-year period, outperforming all other asset classes in public pension portfolios since 2012.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 27, 2025

But it did have a good, a fortunate opportunity to go really work at a startup hedge fund. What are, what are they looking for in terms of returns? That’s, that’s slightly unique and that will come more than likely with higher returns. It was m and m partners at the time. It was relatively small. So it, it really is.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : There’s, there’s a different sense of, of creating a company versus creating a, a certain type of space inhabited by people. So, so let’s talk about some of those companies that you built. You begin at a few tech startups, you found Dex, which eventually gets acquired by Lotus.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. It’s like, wait, you’re going to, all this Robinhood is a public company. Let’s talk about hybrid working and the return to office. He found a place to express it efficiently.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Good luck getting me to move to any startup city in a state run by people who deny climate change, seek to thwart democracy through voter suppression, and that sees proper oversight of vital infrastructure as a financial burden too great to bother with.

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