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...BDO last year took an alternative approach, opting to convert to an employee-owned corporation, funded by private debt....
...BlackRock was interested in a tie-up with Warburg Pincus because its chief executive Larry Fink had identified alternative investments as a strategic growth area....
...In 2021, the buyout group moved its holding in CAA into a new fund backed by three large investors as an alternative to a listing or a full sale....
...“We are in a new era of realising that these partnerships have attractive alternatives,” said Peter Munzig, a partner at TPG, one of the most active dealmakers in professional services....
...The deal also included an agreement where Atlas would provide investment management services to some of the assets Credit Suisse retained....
...Meta said: “Subscriptions as an alternative to advertising are a well-established business model across many industries . . . We will continue to engage constructively with the Commission.”...
...“The credit card industry is not very competitive, and consumers would be better off if Discover became a more attractive alternative,” said Rebecca Allensworth, professor of law at Vanderbilt University...
...“We’ve seen a lot of people dive headfirst into the alternative energy space,” said Ben Dell, Kimmeridge founder and managing partner....
...While the cost of a Bloomberg terminal or FactSet subscription remains prohibitive for many ordinary investors, there are many free or cheap alternatives that offer similar if lighter data and data-crunching...
...The alternatives industry is notoriously full of dominant and entrepreneurial founders who have single-mindedly pursued their vision....
...Roughly $10bn of so-called private credit loans have been refinanced in public markets, as borrowers pay down burdensome loans in favour of a cheaper alternative, according to data from Bank of America....
...Google has already agreed to let developers use alternative ways to pay. Further concessions are likely....
...Google, meanwhile, argues that its charges are justified by the costs of running the Android mobile platform and all the other services it provides to developers, even when they do not use its payment service...
...Epic had sought to use an alternative billing mechanism on the Play Store that avoids Google’s fees....
...A logical buyer could be an alternatives group or a sovereign wealth fund. Those who know Englander well are not discounting another sleight of hand....
...D pipeline, according to IQVIA, a multinational company that provides consultancy services to the industry....
...The investment in Apollo, which Tiger described as a “leading global alternative investment manager” was revealed to investors in a mid-year letter seen by the Financial Times....
...Cruise and its rival Alphabet-owned Waymo were granted permission by the California Public Utilities Commission in August to run driverless taxi services throughout the city....
...“What’s the alternative, get fired soon and then get a job at Millennium anyway?”...
Rival Ares has seen its stock jump a fifth already in 2023
...Rates charged by General Motors’ Cruise robotaxi service in San Francisco are comparable to rideshare services from the likes of Uber....
...Franklin Templeton has agreed to buy rival Putnam Investments for more than $1bn as the California-based asset manager continues its expansion into alternative products and retirement plans....
...Among the more notable departures was that of 25-year veteran Mike Koester, Goldman’s co-president of alternatives who left in April and plans to start his own venture in the private markets....
...It’s not just PacWest,” Joel Holsinger, co-head of alternative credit at Ares, told the FT “This is the first inning.”...
...Direct listings have often been touted as a cheaper alternative to IPOs or Spacs since the streaming service Spotify completed the first such deal in the US in 2018, but only a handful of companies have...
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