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...“The transaction itself can be a real catalyst,” he said....
...Hipgnosis Song Management said on Thursday it believed the deal would “act as a catalyst for a re-rating of the company’s share price”....
...That will face a major test as Carlyle now raises new buyout funds in Europe and Asia where, as in the US, the predecessor funds have yet to earn stellar returns....
...Dozens of large venture funds such as Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst have become RIAs in recent years....
...A few corporate buyers have helped private equity LPs this year....
...Other banks were also looking to offload portfolios, investors said, adding that they expected to see sales in areas such as so-called net asset value lending, which involves financing investment funds....
...For more than 10 years I’ve been hooked; it’s been a catalyst to travel, to follow the wind to new places....
...Klarna was among the front-runners of European fintech, luring Silicon Valley venture capitalists such as Lightspeed Venture Partners and General Catalyst across the Atlantic....
...I hope we can be the catalyst for that kind of change,” he said....
...Thomas Rabe, chief executive of Bertelsmann, said: “KKR was already the ideal partner and catalyst once before, following the re-establishment of our music subsidiary in 2008....
...in its takeover of popular restaurant chain Ootoya, while bankers say the $2bn unsolicited takeover bid by the Nitori chain of home centres for smaller rival Shimachu in October could be a “meaningful catalyst...
...Often the conversations circle back to the limited partners, or LPs, that invest in venture capital funds — including university endowments, pension funds and wealthy individuals....
...It is widely cited as the catalyst for the departure of Steve Ballmer as chief executive of Microsoft in 2014....
...The Pacific was bewitching, the fund managers charming, our crew delightful. The problem was the excursions....
...But today’s mismatch between LP commitments and the underlying investments opportunities is leading to a vacuum of funds that can provide capital to SMEs....
...The deal, which also included Endeavour Catalyst and Satya Capital, is the largest involving a fintech company that does business only in Africa, according to the Rise Fund....
...A mutual fund established by New York-based Catalyst Funds in 2014 to invest in “companies experiencing significant activist investor activity” closed a year later, while an exchange traded fund offered...
...partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, the London-based law firm, says it is the relative stability of prices over the past year, rather than the partial recovery, that has been the most important catalyst...
...“That would be a catalyst for US interest rates rising as well, as we’re all tied together these days. So we’re watching this pretty closely,” he said. “You have massive risk at these levels.”...
...One of the catalysts was the shipping industry....
...Middle East tension also keeps EM watchers wary, as does the Korean peninsula....
...Now Benioff is giving much more — $10m with his wife Lynne to prime a $30m fund focused on family homelessness....
...EU funds have helped smarten up Plovdiv’s elegant 19th-century centre, built over the wealthy Roman city of Philippopolis....
...CtW Investment Group, which represents union pension funds, said it hoped billionaire Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square would act as a “catalyst” for a turnround at the company, adding that the board “desperately...
...Mr Hill added: “We still see Blackstone as the best positioned of the ‘alts’, with a highly diversified asset base and industry leading teams in each of their segments, but we struggle identifying a catalyst...
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