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Investing Principles: Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Wins, Losses, and Strikeouts

Mergers and Inquisitions

As a specific example, I made the unconventional choice to put the safe part of my portfolio in gold and silver rather than bonds in 2020. And money printing and debt levels took off and never looked back. The perfect example is COVID in the first quarter of 2020.

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Trader of the Year Hedge Fund: Conversant Capital’s David Alfred

The TRADE

Mike Simanovsky, the founder and CIO at Conversant, served as a partner at Senator Investment Group, there for nine years before launching Conversant in early 2020. During Conversants formative stages, Mike and I had befriended one another while I was on the sell-side. We do some listed options more on the index side as hedging instruments.

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People Moves Monday: Nomura Asset Management, UBS, Citadel Securities and more…

The TRADE

Writing in a social media announcement, Molloy said: “so many great memories with great people but I have to say a massive thank you to Mai Tanaka, Damian Cronin and the NAMUK trading team for taking a chance on me back in 2020.”  Previously in his career, Molloy has served as a senior analyst at Goldman Sachs, as well as a senior corporate actions (..)

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Investors flock to investment grade debt markets

JD Supra: Mergers

billion of financing in Q1 2024; the highest level of quarterly issuance since Q2 2020, according to S&P Global. Primary investment grade bond issuance surged in Q1 2024 as investors ramped up exposure to high-quality borrowers in a high interest rate environment. In the US, investment grade corporate borrowers secured US$429.7

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late. In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.".

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Debt or Equity? Making the right choice at the right time

Wizenius

When companies need to raise capital, they have two primary options: Debt involves borrowing money, while equity involves issuing shares of ownership in the company. Let's take a look at examples of companies that raised capital through debt, and analyze the factors that influenced their decision. Assuming a net income of $21.33

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Insurance Brokerage M&A in the First Half of 2020

Sica Fletcher

They have enormous amounts of dry powder that they must deploy and continue to have access to very inexpensive debt. This blog post analyzes the significance of the statistics included in our ,, Second Quarter 2020 Sica Fletcher Agency & Broker Buyer Index. Now we have the data that backs up our initial observations.

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