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1 March 2021

Search funds: a niche within private equity

At the time of disruptive business models, “uberization” of the economy and “everything-on-demand”, similar revolutionary capital raising models are being developed within the financial industry. There is one niche within Private Equity which is ...

Technology ・ Investing

18 January 2021

Space Investing with Catherine Wood's new Space ETF, ARKX

Space is cold, but space investing is sizzling hot! Learn more about Catherine Wood's new Space ETF, and the space economy.

Asset Allocation ・ All about banking ・ Investing

14 January 2021

The Value Investing Method

We know Warren Buffett is a well-known value investor, but what does value investing really mean? Regardless of your financial background, here is a straight forward summary of this investment method.

Technology ・ IPO ・ USA ・ Investing

8 January 2021

Student loan pioneer SoFi IPO through SPAC

Based in San Francisco, SoFi is a leading online lending platform founded in 2011 to tackle the U.S. Student debt crisis through student loan refinancing. In 2011, the average American student had $26,600 in loans, and today the national debt has ...

Bonds ・ ESG ・ Investing

5 January 2021

Green bonds are the new cool: a glimpse into 2021

Green bonds are seeing an increasing popularity and investors should be ready for their arrival as policymakers are looking for ways to kick off a sustainable Corona recovery. So what are green bonds ?

Stocks ・ Macro ・ Investing

28 December 2020

Has the pandemic setup another Roaring Twenties? 1920 vs. 2020

Unsurprisingly after such uncertainty in 2020, there is a wide dispersion of forecasts for 2021, from boom to bust. Jim Cramer and others expect a boom...

Stocks ・ Technology ・ Investing

27 November 2020

Is Salesforce buying Slack?

The giant cloud software company is working on a deal to acquire the messaging company. According to people familiar with the matter, this would be one of the biggest software transaction ever.

16 September 2020

Stocks ・ Forex ・ Investing

16 September 2020

Fed meeting & Buffett-backed Snowflake IPO

For this day ahead I’ll be focused on potentially the biggest software IPO ever – Snowflake as well as the Federal Reserve rate decision and UK CPI data.

Stocks ・ Investing

7 September 2020

6 Reasons Softbank's ‘Nasdaq whale’ trading strategy made $4 billion

This is a deep dive into Japanese conglomerate Softbank’s ‘Nasdaq whale’ strategy, which appears to be one of the principal causes of the summer 2020 melt-up and subsequent drop in tech stocks.

Investing

7 September 2020

Ant Group’s IPO: potentially the biggest in history

If Chinese billionaire Jack Ma already broke the record for the biggest IPO with Alibaba - $25 billion in 2014 – he could very well surpass it yet again with Ant Group’s IPO.

Technology ・ Investing

25 August 2020

Emerging Tech Series: Secretive Palantir is going public

Secretive big data and analytics start-up Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, said late Monday it has confidentially filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. Palantir's leaked IPO paperwork gives a look into ...

Investing

20 August 2020

Emerging Tech Series: Airbnb has filed confidential IPO paperwork

What a difference a few months makes! Home-rental company Airbnb Inc. announced on Wednesday that it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering. Airbnb had plans to go public earlier this year, but an IPO was put on hold as the ...

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