The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For more active investors that could be an attractive investment thesis. Given Devon's dividend is, in effect, tied to the price of oil and natural gas, it will likely rise just as you are facing rising energy costs. In that way, it can provide a hedge of sorts for the real world energy costs you are facing.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 28, 2024

For more active investors, Devon could serve as a hedge against real-world energy costs. By the third quarter of 2023, it had fallen to just $0.49 That said, oil prices perked up a bit after that, leading to a fourth-quarter 2023 payment of $0.77 This is not a reliable income stream.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

Hamilton Lane has long been an active investor in targeted strategies, including credit-oriented direct investments and co-investments. In a press statement, Hamilton Lane said that raised on an annual basis, this series of funds is well positioned to take advantage of the current market environment.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As an active investor we want to be close to managers and help them develop their business through Tikehau Capital’s international network. Our primary focus remains on European investments, while keeping a watchful eye on opportunities beyond the continent. Our commitment to digital security goes beyond financial investment.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 29, 2023

To be fair, even with property-owning REITs, investors are trusting that management will do the right thing for shareholders. However, mortgage REITs are particularly complex investments, and only the most active investors should probably own them. That's really true of any stock you buy.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

For most of the market's more active investors, however, picking stocks can be a lot of fun. Did you know there are literally thousands of stocks you can choose from at any given time to custom-build your perfect portfolio? For some people, that sounds like an exhausting proposition. It's a chance to go on a treasure hunt of sorts.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 11, 2024

Even if you're an active investor in individual stocks -- like Buffett and Dalio are -- rock-solid index funds like these four can help form an excellent backbone for your portfolio. The bottom line is that even billionaires recognize the wealth-creation potential of low-cost index funds.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

AI investors need to also be active investors because, regardless of which horse you pick in this race, it's sure to be an evolving and changing dynamic to follow. For now, there's nothing to suggest that ChatGPT won't still be the dominant chatbot in the near term. But in the long run, there's a lot that can change.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 1, 2024

I'm an active investor and want to be able to put money in my brokerage account whenever I see an opportunity, so that's why high-yield savings accounts are my top choice right now, even though I could probably get a slightly better yield from a 1-year CD.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 19, 2023

I have read endless screeds the past few years as to the return of the active investor and why passive is definitely going to fail this cycle. Meaning, with rates nearing the terminal value, bonds now generate decent yield as well as provide ballast against the volatility of the equity portion of your portfolios.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Marlin and New Mountain are both active investors in healthcare. Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up Virgin Pulse has since made several acquisitions in the sector, including acquiring patient engagement company Welltok in 2021. Fresno, Calif.-based

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

More active investors might actually find that appealing. It's not for me, but it might be just perfect for some investors. Right when you'd be facing rising energy prices for gasoline and home heating, Devon Energy's dividend would probably be heading higher, too.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 1, 2023

If you prefer active management, you might go with Vanguard Wellington Fund (VWELX), which has a similar stock/bond target, but human beings pick the stocks. More active investors can pick their own stocks and/or bonds. The goal is simply to put your savings to work in assets that have a history of growing in value over time.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 31, 2024

However, despite my preference for being an active investor, I've passively invested in several high-quality exchange-traded funds (ETFs). I like to make individual investments. I love being a part owner of something tangible that can grow my wealth over the long term.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 19, 2023

Not for the faint of heart Verizon, Walgreens, and 3M are all offering very attractive yields, but they all come with company-specific risks that investors need to consider carefully. Walgreens' business transformation, meanwhile, is still an untested idea.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 29, 2023

And it might actually appeal to more active investors that use oil and natural gas for things like heating and transportation. But it is a fairly straightforward way to return value to shareholders in a business that tends to rise and fall along with a volatile commodity like energy.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2024

Most active investors desire to earn above-average returns. Otherwise, they'd simply passively invest in an S&P 500 index fund and call it a day, since that would provide them with market-average returns with little effort. Earning above-average returns isn't always easy, though.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 25, 2023

As Warren Buffett, one of the greatest active investors of all time noted long ago, “A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors.” ” It’s is worth your time to delve into the entire discussion.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 15, 2023

This has led investors and analysts to believe that further rate hikes could be coming later this year, which will promote lending activity. We saw that earlier this week when China's central bank, the People's Bank of China, surprisingly cut its seven-day reverse repo rate from 2% to 1.9%.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 31, 2023

Active investing But in my case, I'm choosing to go the active investor route with that $500. Index investing is an easy, low-cost, almost automatic strategy that should result in outstanding wealth building over the long term. It's a smart strategy for most people.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2023

Not perfect, but not bad One of the reasons why Black Hills' yield is so high right now is that 2023 is going to be a year of debt reduction, which will mean less capital investment activity. Investors aren't so happy with that. But the plan is to spend more than normal in 2024, which is likely to be needed given that the utility's 5.8%

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 28, 2023

This won't be a great fit for everybody, but more active investors might appreciate this vital dividend nuance as they work toward millionaire status. In other words, it provides an inflation hedge of sorts to protect your buying power, supporting your ability to save money instead of spend it.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Indeed, often times the "less is more" crowd ends up with better returns than active investors. There's a largely overlooked name more investors might want to consider adding to their portfolio regardless of their long-term goals and risk tolerances. There's also nothing wrong with a boring, passive approach to picking stocks.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2022

I find that the best meetings with my founders include other investors. I’m not a fan of taking separate meetings with each active investor—because a founder really does need a consensus and a strong signal to rely on instead of conflicting feedback.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

If you want to be a more active investor than that, and aim for even higher returns, you might engage in both active and passive investing. Want to aim for more? Devote a significant portion of your money to index funds, and the rest to carefully selected individual stocks -- or whatever you believe in most.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

To relatively new investors the suggestion seems outrageous. The whole point of being an active investor is to outperform the stock market! As most veteran investors can attest, however, consistently beating the market is a rarity. Just matching the overall market's gains isn't a particularly impressive feat.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 23, 2023

So when precious metals prices are high investors will benefit more directly from the lofty commodity prices. That probably won't interest conservative income investors, but it might be attractive to more active investors specifically looking to gold as an inflation hedge.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

Tough market conditions pushed some investors to the sidelines in 2023. The number of active investors in Asia Pacific fell 25% compared with 2022 and the share of deal value contributed by the region’s top 20 funds increased to 47%, up significantly over the prior five-year average of 31%.

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Advent International

AUGUST 24, 2023

The post Advent International and Warburg Pincus name Franco Negron CEO of BioPharma Solutions following its proposed divestiture from Baxter appeared first on Advent International.

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Advent International

AUGUST 24, 2023

The post Advent International and Warburg Pincus name Franco Negron CEO of BioPharma Solutions following its proposed divestiture from Baxter appeared first on Advent International.

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Advent International

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The post Advent International and Warburg Pincus Complete Acquisition of Baxter’s BioPharma Solutions Business appeared first on Advent International.

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Advent International

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The post Advent International and Warburg Pincus Complete Acquisition of Baxter’s BioPharma Solutions Business appeared first on Advent International.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

Let someone else make the decisions If you're an active investor, it might sound counterintuitive, but you can hire someone else to handle subsets of your portfolio. Yet having some exposure to the energy sector can offer valuable diversification to your portfolio. Here are some ways to deal with oil's inherent ups and downs.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Market mistakes become bigger than active investors come in again. You don't need very many active investors to keep markets on their toes so much as that argument has merit, I think that the truth is that David Einhorn, the Bill Ackman's, the Carl Icahn's have a place in this process.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

It would be pretty hard not to establish trust if the investor just does what the founder laid out for them to do--as long as they're on the same page about what that should be. Why do you bother being an active investor when you could just write the check and coast? Why" helps build trust and it can go as deep as you want.

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Advent International

MAY 8, 2023

Perella Weinberg Partners is serving as financial advisor and Sullivan & Cromwell is serving as legal advisor to Baxter.

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Oakhill

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Since its founding in 1986, TSG has been an active investor in the consumer industry. About TSG Consumer Partners TSG Consumer Partners, LP is a leading private equity firm that partners with founders and management teams to build and accelerate growth for best-in-class consumer-facing businesses.

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