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...That is due not only to the greater number of retail investors trading the stocks, but also to the growing popularity of sometimes-controversial equity fundraisings that can flood the market with new shares...
...Traditional asset managers such as Franklin Templeton, AllianceBernstein and T Rowe Price have been racing to snap up alternative providers, including infrastructure, private equity and private credit funds...
...We are getting progressively busier . . . but do I see some sort of avalanche [of activity]? No, I don’t.”...
...“I’m in favour of letting the market decide. If it succeeds, we’re all better off and if it doesn’t, well, the exchange’s investors lost.”...
...Baker Tilly secured a $1bn investment led by H&F in February....
...In a 2013 message to another Centerview banker — which was cited in court filings — Handler wrote, “I have to actually sign this thing?”...
...He says: I don’t know Mark Zuckerberg and I don’t follow Meta and so I don’t know how clever or not clever they are in terms of sniffing the wind, but I think in this instance, either by accident or intentionally...
...Nunes, a former Republican congressman, named four equities market makers in his letter: Citadel Securities, Virtu, Jane Street and G1 Execution Services....
...“I think ultimately, the world needs energy and we’re energy traders, so if you don’t move this stuff, you know the world doesn’t work.”...
...I don’t see much of this right now. Stocks with low P/E ratios relative to their expected growth rates are rare....
...“I can’t say it was that memorable, as neither of us remembered it,” he said....
...Still, some are being cautious, and one group of investors doesn’t seem convinced: private equity is sitting on a record number of assets....
...I don’t worry he will come in and think he will apply a Tesco culture to John Lewis.”...
...The first two didn’t respond, but in a statement Tradeweb’s Billy Hult said: “Obviously I hate to disappoint, but as Doug knows I saved most of my swearing for the golf course.”...
...Private equity firms were looking at higher base rates and wider spreads and saying, no, I don’t want to do any deals right now, unless the company is growing really rapidly....
...And it’s one of the reasons that I left my role as the CEO of Amazon a couple of years ago,” he told researcher and podcast host Lex Fridman in December....
...“The fund hasn’t been marketed to investors in six months. [The long deadline] was to give people time to digest the Scott news,” they said....
...I agree with that. It’s a spoiler for President Biden and for President Trump,” Kennedy said on Tuesday. “It’s a spoiler for the war machine....
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...I don’t think that Subramanian or Bonzon or the others taking this view are wrong, exactly, but I think one needs to be very careful....
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...“I think we’re still in the early stages of the recovery phase that will ultimately allow private equity investors to return capital....
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