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...While that trails returns marketed by private equity funds, it has proven attractive to pension funds and endowments after a decade of rock bottom interest rates....
...“Big Tech has been spending money like 80s rock stars for the last four to five years,” he said. “It feels like there’s adults in the room now.”...
...Which is what happened in 1997 and 2007 — and what I saw unfold in the sushi restaurant last month....
...But the market’s only busier compared with last year’s decade low; deals cratered in 2023 following a frenzy of activity during the pandemic that was fuelled by rock-bottom interest rates....
...The firm’s assets under management have jumped from less than $10bn in 2010 to nearly $60bn, as it enjoyed strong returns and fundraising at a time of rock-bottom interest rates and steady economic growth...
...We’re like rocks, stuck at the side of a stream.” The Lekdijk Bovendams bond, like the Tucks, is a rock, stuck in the stream of Dutch history....
...In today’s newsletter: Multi-manager hedge funds on the rocks Qatar bets on India’s Ambani Turkey’s IPO renaissance Multi-manager hedge funds meet their maker Three decades ago, when star traders such...
...Kid Rock, the rap-rock star, filmed himself shooting cases of the beer....
...Regolith is the name for lunar dust, which actually isn't dust at all but shards of Moon rock that have been smashed by meteorites over millions of years....
...A horn quartet gave a Prince-style swing to “Music for a Sushi Restaurant”. A guitarist scrunched his eyes and played a classic-rock solo lasting at least a minute during “She”....
...Tucked into a marble-walled corner of the station is an entryway of rocks and plants that looks like an overgrown bonsai arrangement....
...“An entire new generation of investors may well have come of age never having actually experienced an economic downturn, a protracted market downdraft, or interest rates above rock-bottom levels,” he wrote...
...We bicycled between restaurants that looked like tree-houses and enjoyed sushi for breakfast as delicate as the mousse-soft sand. I could never have afforded such a trip on my own....
...Then it’s dinner: if I’m celebrating something, like winning a big surf contest, it has to be sushi at Kuma....
Low demand for bonds and loans is Wall Street ‘canary’ as inflation risks rock capital markets
...Now seems like the appropriate time as price levels are expected to be on the rise after international borders fully reopen,” she said, adding that the rock-bottom dollar to yen exchange rate meant that...
...the dial with Rock & Roll....
...D1 Capital made money on private companies last year but lost money on public stocks while Whale Rock’s public portfolio has fallen more this year than its private counterpart, according to people with knowledge...
...Owl Rock Capital, Blackstone Credit and Golub Capital financed the company’s $10.7bn takeover of Anaplan last month and its SailPoint takeover....
...“Music for a Sushi Restaurant” is the liveliest of the 13 tracks, an insistent funk number with an exuberant horn section refrain and lascivious lyrics....
...He opened with “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” (also the first track on his recently released third album Harry’s House), which was fantastically catchy yet also self-consciously arty, a fitting choice for...
...In some deals featuring Owl Rock, Blackstone and Apollo, the private equity firms have funded the debt directly. Private credit has been important to middle-market deals for years....
...SailPoint’s financing was led by Golub, Blackstone and Owl Rock, the company said in a statement....
...Prices for songs have soared while rock stars such as Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan have sold their songbooks for hundreds of millions of dollars....
...says Adenuga quietly, looking at the napkin among a selection of sushi, strawberries and Ferrero Rocher; he’s dressed down in a backward baseball cap, loose, multicoloured check shirt and slouchy blue trackies...
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