The Big Picture

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Companies Hoarding Workers Could Be Good News for the Economy : Employers have been burned by a labor shortage. The upside of a gilt market crisis : Ballooning pension fund surpluses and improved funding ratios — what’s not to like? Bloomberg ). Will that make them act differently if the economy slows down? ( Upshot ). •

Pension Funds 65

Pension Funds Startups Education Assets 65

Pension Pulse

AUGUST 22, 2023

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada Pension Plan Investment Board joins startup at $100 million Reforestation Fund: Canada’s largest pension fund has joined a project to produce carbon credits by planting more than 100 native tree species on degraded land in Brazil’s Amazon region.

Funds 52

Funds Startups Investing Pension Funds 52

Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Advocacy groups have accused the private fund industry of unfair, conflicted and opaque practices that hurt everyday Americans who invest in such funds through their pensions. It's not as if some state pension fund benefits from opacity," SEC Chair Gary Gensler told reporters after the panel's vote.

Hedge Funds 64

Hedge Funds Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Pension Funds Funds 64

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 21, 2020

” A management rights letter is a short agreement between a company and an investor to allow them certain “management rights.” While it is nice to have these “rights”, the need for this letter actually has very little to do with how venture capital firms want to work with a portfolio company.

Venture Capital 57

Venture Capital Pension Funds Startups Consultants 57

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Henry told me that I should start a fund--me, a 27 year old former VC analyst turned product manager with no MBA at a startup that wasn''t really headed in any particular direction. It''s probably the first time I''d really ever had the thought of starting my own fund. So thanks for playing Inception, Henry.

Pension Funds 117

Pension Funds Venture Capital Startups Stock Market 117

Pension Pulse

JANUARY 25, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Teachers' invests in portable battery company aiming to replace gas-powered generators: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is leading a US$95-million funding round for Instagrid GmbH, a German maker of portable battery systems designed to replace gas-powered generators.

Investors 59

Investors Funds Startups Assets 59

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2012

You know, because sometimes startups just simply don't make it [shrug] but you gotta watch out for those financial hucksters who are looking to take your money and run off to kick it in Fiji. 25 people I've actually placed at companies as part of a message of how I help startups. I can't tell you about the. I certainly would!

Crowdfunding 125

Crowdfunding Startups Funds Pension Funds 125

Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential. trillion in buyouts, highlighting its resilience and impressive growth.

Hedge Funds 52

Hedge Funds Portfolios Due Diligence Leveraged Buyouts 52

Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential. trillion in buyouts, highlighting its resilience and impressive growth.

Hedge Funds 52

Hedge Funds Portfolios Due Diligence Leveraged Buyouts 52

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 12, 2011

Let’s face it: Sales are the bastard stepchild of the startup world. about a New York company called Salescrunch that we funded. Helping companies make money just isn’t a very interesting goal for a startup these days. The market is clamoring for a company like this and we’re super psyched to be a part of it.

Best Practices 108

Best Practices Pension Funds Startups Investing 108

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. 00:09:07 [Speaker Changed] I think sometimes, but I, you could also take that and apply it to a company, right? So you end up going from the fund of funds to pension funds. Absolutely.

Asset Management 57

Asset Management Assets Pension Funds Hedge Funds 57

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2013

A lot of companies that probably shouldn't get funding will get it, because of the novelty of the platform and the momentum investing that tends to characterize individual investors. These crowdfunded companies will pour a lot of new money into the market for human capital, driving salaries up. Then, reality will set in.

Crowdfunding 115

Crowdfunding Pension Funds Angel Investors Startups 115

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

Charlie is a nice guy, but his company failed.". He hasn't founded or built either a successful, let alone innovative company, and he hasn't raised $ to invest in those entrepreneurs. If* you believe that a good venture capitalist should have launched their own company and exited, then I simply don't have that track record.

Venture Capital 110

Venture Capital Pension Funds Startups Capital 110

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

It just seemed like a fitting title for a company built around narrative by a founder who used to write stories for a living. It's a story that just hit a milestone--a $4mm round of venture funding that I'm ecstatic to say Brooklyn Bridge Ventures just led. I'm actually coming in not just through the fund, but also personally as well.

Venture Capital 151

Venture Capital Capital Pension Funds Prospects 151

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2015

One of the first things I did when I joined the venture asset class as a lowly institutional LP analyst in 2001 was to build the VC fund cashflow model. Just about every analyst who looks at fund investing has built one. It's also not the "average fund". It's not perfect. Venture capital is all about finding the extraordinary.

Venture Capital 167

Venture Capital Returns Capital Enterprise Values 167

Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Published Road to Zero: Decarbonization Investment Approach Progress Report through the CPP Investments Insights Institute, which shares learnings from the Fund’s first year implementing its decarbonization investment approach. The approach involves supporting portfolio companies as they reduce emissions to build value over the long term.

Investing 59

Investing Buyout Stakes Assets 59

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And I’ve been investing in a lot of computer companies over the years. And I actually finished my PhD in ’99, but I started a company in late ‘96, early ‘97. And I was kind of doing the company and the thesis at the same time, which wasn’t great for either, and also wasn’t great for our marriage. WENGER: No.

Venture Capital 118

Venture Capital Capital Funds Startups 118

The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

Start with valuation, what is a company worth and why, move towards what are the things that drive valuations, and then expand out to what happens to valuations over the lifecycle of a company, and why those life cycles are getting increasingly shorter over the past few decades. What can I say about his breadth and depth of expertise?

Education 115

Education Financing Finance Taxes 115

The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. And so it was a whole new idea, I found it very interesting.

Leveraged Buyouts 103

Leveraged Buyouts Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Mergers and Acquisitions 103

The Big Picture

MAY 23, 2023

How to recruit and retain the best people and how to use technology as a tool to give you an edge, not just in investing but in the ability to offer clients various solutions improving your efficiency, effectiveness and productivity as a company. And I think you will also. And it is slightly surreal. How old is Man Group? RITHOLTZ: Right.

Hedge Funds 61

Hedge Funds Financing Finance Funds 61

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

First, these companies, they were sort of self-interested advice. I then was doing journalism for Breakingviews, which was the sort of dot-com startup, FX FT people known by Reuters, and started doing some — and then I did some research for Crispin Odey, London hedge fund guy. We were sort of doing our job.

Financing 57

Financing Finance Banks Hedge Funds 57