Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A hedge fund run by Michael Burry — who famously shorted subprime mortgages during the 2008 financial crisis and became a central figure in Michael Lewis’s 2010 book "The Big Short" — added 35,000 shares of Alphabet and 30,000 shares of Amazon. That fund, Scion Capital, also boosted bets on Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Canada’s large pension funds have pulled back on some activities in China. I also want to recognize our peer Maple 8 pension fund managers, many of whom are here today. That’s one key reason large pension funds tend to seek private investments. Earlier this year, British Columbia Investment Management Corp.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 18, 2023

Markets are on edge ahead of the annual gathering of policy makers at Jackson Hole in Wyoming next week, according to Andrew Hunter, deputy chief US economist at Capital Economics. George Soros, Carl Icahn, Stanley Druckenmiller, Julian Robertson have converted their hedge funds into family offices to manage their own money.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

George Soros, Carl Icahn, Stanley Druckenmiller, Julian Robertson have converted their hedge funds into family offices to manage their own money. Distressed debt funds typically invest in debt of a company but sometimes take equity positions. Global macros typically invest across fixed income, currency, commodity and equity markets.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Completed the secondary purchase of a US$100 million commitment to Oak Hill Capital Partners V, which focuses on investing across the industrials, media & communications and business services in the U.S. Committed €500 million to CVC Capital Partners IX, L.P., STAR Capital is a mid-market, U.K.-based

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

LTK Capital Management is up huge this year, close to 300%, trouncing elite hedge funds and money managers. The buy ratio was among the highest for securities that had at least 50 position changes, according to Bloomberg’s analysis of 13F filings by 1,099 hedge funds. Hedge funds added a net 13.47 dropped $1.15

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

We remain keenly focused on capitalizing on the biggest secular trends reshaping our industry such as portfolio customization and indexation, the growth of an increasing allocations to private assets, and the global sustainability revolution. Ashish Sabadra -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst Hi. of over $200 million.

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Sara Grillo

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Secondly, The ”bad companies” who are the offenders already have enough capital. They aren’t issuing shares to fund their operations. According to Dr. Quigley, 90% of capital raising happens through the bond market. The bad companies who are the offenders already have enough capital. It’s just exchange of shares.

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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

JULY 14, 2023

Our capital management strategy remains first to invest in our business and then to return excess cash to shareholders through a combination of dividends and share repurchases. In May, we capitalized on the improved conditions for debt issuance, issuing 1.25 government money market funds.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 12, 2024

Nonoperating results for the quarter included $90 million of net investment gains, driven primarily by mark-to-market noncash gains on our unhedged seed capital investments and minority investment in Investec. Our capital management strategy remains consistent. Operating income of $1.8

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

Growing public deficits, a modernizing digital world, advancing energy independence, and the energy transition are driving the mobilization of private capital to fund critical infrastructure. Our capital management strategy remains consistent. Share repurchases have been a consistent element of our capital management strategy.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

They were starting to want to attract international capital. Capital rules were changing. I don’t have to worry about flying around the world collecting capital from LPs. So what I mean by that is, first, understand the duration of your funding source. Insurance companies have very long-dated capital.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Ted Seides, Capital Allocators , is below. Ted Seides has a fascinating career in allocating capital, both on an institutional basis and as an academic, theoretical, philosophical approach. But he spent most of his career allocating capital to various hedge funds, private equity, venture, etc.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

DAMODARAN: Capital gains then were taxed with 28 percent. Since 2004, the tax rate on dividends and capital gains is 15 percent, 18 percent, 21 percent. The original research actually, the Fama-French paper argued that market capitalization was standing in as a proxy for us, that small companies were riskier than larger companies.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I remember it really well because I just finished building this house in West Virginia and we, we were taking occupancy in early August, and it was, it was literally the same day that BMP Paraba shut off redemptions from some of their mutual funds, caused all sorts of chaos in Europe. So we had the long-term capital management issue.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I can’t begin to tell you what it’s like to sit in a room with the Jeremy’s, Professor Jeremy Siegel and I keep calling him Professor Jeremy Schwartz, but he’s just Jeremy Schwartz, chief investment officer of the $75 billion ETF and mutual fund company, WisdomTree. We have the same capital as before.

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