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...Goldman Sachs’ asset management arm has bought a stake in private credit specialist Kennedy Lewis Investment Management, as it looks to expand its reach in a fast-growing corner of markets....
...Elite private colleges have for the past 25 years followed the “Yale model” by ploughing big dollars into illiquid alternative investments, to great success (Golden had come from Yale)....
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...For more than two decades, private universities like Princeton have followed the “Yale model” by ploughing money into illiquid alternative investments. Princeton did so even more than others....
...He added line losses to alternative providers had not grown in this half year compared with the previous six months....
...The lowly valued UK stock market makes a tempting target for private equity buyers. Companies in the throes of a cyclical slump make the choicest morsels of all....
...Active assets remain about 70 per cent of the market when alternative investments such as private equity and private credit are taken into account, said Matt Apkarian, associate director of product development...
...That review, chaired by former HS2 non-executive chair Sir David Higgins, has provisionally concluded that the best alternative would be a high-speed line along roughly the same route....
...The report identified 69 low-income countries where governments need to reduce high debt levels to “allocate part of their revenues to critical climate change adaptation investments”....
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