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Blackstone Group LP
Dividends outstrip cash flows at Blackstone’s flagship property fund
...“I would always be cautious about any company that does not have its dividend covered,” said Nate Koppikar, a partner at hedge fund Orso Partners, which has bet against Blackstone shares....
April 3, 2024
Artificial intelligence
Nvidia emerges as leading investor in AI companies
...such as Y Combinator that place many smaller bets....
December 11, 2023
FT Live
Future of AI
Igniting a new era of innovation and investment
Wednesday, 6 NovemberLondon. UK
InterviewSam Altman
OpenAI chief seeks new Microsoft funds to build ‘superintelligence’
...To build out the enterprise business, Altman said he hired executives such as Brad Lightcap, who previously worked at Dropbox and start-up accelerator Y Combinator, as his chief operating officer....
November 13, 2023
KKR & Co LP
KKR raises record $6.4bn for Asia fund in infrastructure rush
...Blackstone, Stonepeak and I Squared Capital have also flagged their rising interest in the space as governments’ ability to fund infrastructure has come under pressure....
February 1, 2024
Private equity
Private equity stakes unloaded at a discount as investors seek exits
...“For a lot of LPs [limited partners] that are overallocated to private equity or having liquidity issues, getting cash at hand through secondary sales is a sure thing,” said an executive at a public fund...
April 4, 2024
Blackstone Group LP
Blackstone to shut multi-strategy fund after assets fall 90%
...“I haven’t seen a multi-strat in Ucits format do well. Performance has not been good,” said Patrick Ghali, managing partner at Sussex Partners, which advises clients on fund investments....
November 21, 2023
FT Live
Due Diligence Live
Where leaders in investment and finance meet
Tuesday, 8 OctoberLondon, UK
John Thornhill
Elon Musk may yet hold OpenAI to account — unlike its board
...“I think that AGI is already here,” Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a top Google AI researcher, told me last week....
March 7, 2024
News in-depthSam Altman
The Sam Altman effect: ‘His superpower is getting people onside’
...Jessica Livingston, co-founder of Y Combinator, posted to X: “The reason I was a founding donor to OpenAI in 2015 was not because I was interested in AI, but because I believed in Sam.”...
November 21, 2023
Letter
Letter: English devolution to cities and regions must be bolder
...Governments are often reluctant to transfer decision-making powers to less-resourced authorities (even though experience tells us that, following “growing pains”, more decentralised systems...
January 29, 2024
Letter
Letter: Societies benefit if urban poor are more resilient
...Globally, just 11 per cent of climate-specific multilateral finance goes to cities, and only 5 per cent of adaptation-specific funding....
January 31, 2024
Special ReportDecarbonisation
Accelerators switch on to cleantech opportunities
...Founded in 2005, Y Combinator’s alumni businesses include holiday home booking company Airbnb and payment processing platform Stripe....
September 11, 2023
John Thornhill
OpenAI has just fused its corporate ‘kill switch’
...As Paul Graham, the co-founder of Y Combinator, once said: “Sam is extremely good at becoming powerful.”...
November 23, 2023
Walt Disney Co
Jamie Dimon backs Disney’s Bob Iger in proxy fight with Nelson Peltz
...I don’t know why shareholders would take that risk,” he added....
March 13, 2024
Letter
Letter: How charities boost spending on good causes
...This responsibility should sit with the charity trustees who should be allowed more credit for, on the whole, taking their responsibilities very seriously in these straitened times....
November 7, 2023
Blackstone Group LP
Blackstone warns that private equity cannot return capital ‘overnight’
...Wealthy individual investors also poured more than $8bn into Blackstone’s funds, including $2.7bn for a recently launched private equity fund targeting so-called retail investors....
April 18, 2024
FT Live
Innovation in Wealth Management Summit
Augmented intelligence for client-centric services
Thursday, 2 May9 Montague Close, London, UK
KKR & Co LP
KKR co-CEOs predict revival in global IPO and takeover activity
...KKR’s funds plan to house assets moving off the balance sheets of corporations, banks and insurers looking to simplify their operations or fund stock buybacks....
April 12, 2024
Walt Disney Co
Iger defeats Peltz to win Disney board contest
...Why do I need an all-Black cast?”...
April 3, 2024
Letter
Letter: Higher tax tackles investor ‘dry powder’ and inequality
...This is happening at the same time as the cash hoards of private equity, hedge funds and other financial services entities have risen to disturbing heights....
February 14, 2024
News in-depthWalt Disney Co
Disney’s Iger wins support ahead of AGM showdown with Peltz
...“I don’t think that the company has crossed the finish line by any means, but there is more embedded optimism that they will be able to achieve their objectives.”...
April 3, 2024
On Wall StreetWilliam Cohan
What is the point of proxy fights?
...The hedge fund manager getting all the attention, of course, is Nelson Peltz, the octogenarian co-founder of Trian Fund Management....
February 23, 2024
Tech start-ups
Nuclear fission start-up backed by Sam Altman to go public
...Altman has repeatedly stated in interviews that he holds no equity in OpenAI — excluding a small stake via Y Combinator from the time he was president....
July 11, 2023
Rishi Sunak
How Rishi Sunak built a close relationship with Blackstone’s bosses
...After leaving Goldman Sachs, he worked at hedge funds the Children’s Investment Fund and Theleme Partners....
April 11, 2024
News in-depthTesla Inc
Tesla’s ‘gravity-defying’ powers at risk as EV market slows
...“I still love the company....
April 5, 2024
OpenAI
ChatGPT parent OpenAI seeks $86bn valuation
...Altman has said he does not hold a direct stake in OpenAI and only an “immaterial” position through the start-up accelerator Y Combinator....
October 19, 2023
News in-depthSociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA
China’s Tianqi Lithium’s $4bn bet on Chile at risk of backfiring
...“I assume Tianqi’s hope when it stepped into SQM was to one day run the lithium business by buying control,” said Daniel Jimenez, founder of lithium consultancy iLiMarkets who previously worked at SQM for...
April 10, 2024

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