Remove 2020 Remove Debt Remove S&P
article thumbnail

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. When Mike called me about the opportunity to join Conversant, he emphasised the firm’s long-term, buy-and-hold strategy, akin to private equity. It’s been busy.

article thumbnail

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

Being in your country’s top ~5% of earners will make a FAR bigger difference than fancy strategies, day trading, or finding the occasional meme coin that goes up by 100x. Clearly, that was a mistake because the S&P 500 roughly doubled over that period. And money printing and debt levels took off and never looked back.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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. By: White & Case LLP

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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.

M&A
article thumbnail

Deal Diary: Wachtell, Kirkland Work Nasdaq, Adenza Tie-Up

The Deal

for an undisclosed sum in 2020; of eVestment for $705 million in 2017; and of International Securities Exchange Holdings Inc. Reed and Michael P. Chief legal officer Joshua S. in 2020 and of Calypso Technology Inc. billion of debt issued before the deal’s closing, which the parties hope will occur in six to nine months.

article thumbnail

Will There Be an IPO for a Specialty Consulting Company in 2024?

Focus Investment Banking

The S&P 500 has recently traded near 4800, close to its record at the end of 2021. About the only new entrant to the public markets has been KLDiscovery, a provider of e-discovery, information governance and data recovery services, which went public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) transaction in 2020.

IPO