Asset Allocation
How Well Is VC Doing This Year? Very, Very Well
With large valuations for its companies, venture firms are raising a record amount in 2021.
Tag: Venture Capital
Asset Allocation
Exclusive: ‘Bull Market Is Going to Go for Another Few Years.’—Florida SBA Senior Investment Officer Talks Strategy.
He also said the pension fund is open to the possibility of investing directly in crypto.
Market Moves
Venture Capital Spurs Endowments’ Record Returns
However, Pitchbook warns that growth from alternative investments ‘could be more mirage than oasis.’
How to Find the Next Hot New Growth Stocks
Which young companies have the chops to be tomorrow’s stars? We ask canny strategists for their picks, and their methods.
Market Moves
Buy Tech, But Not the Big Boys, and Use Private Equity, UBS Says
PE is a much better way to own technology companies, and there are more pickings, the bank argues.
Pensions
How Allocators Can Find Good Health Care Investments After the Vaccine Rollout
The outlook for new technologies is bounteous, our symposium panel says.
Asset Allocation
So, SPACs Are Dead Meat? Not a Chance
The craze for the blank check outfits might have dwindled, due to the SEC, but they’re still a good investing choice, our symposium panelists say.
Europe’s Venture Capital Finally Flowers, Luring Institutional Investors
Why big allocators on this side of the Atlantic, like CalSTRS, CPPIB, and OMERS, are seeding Old World newbie companies.
Market Moves
Will Biden Tax Hikes Torpedo Venture Funding?
Nope, says VC icon Patricof, although fellow startup capital ace Tim Draper disagrees.
Alternatives
As VC Soars, Main Sequence Attracts Temasek, Hostplus for Second Fund
The oversubscribed fund, which has raised $250 million AUD, is emblematic of the new popularity of venture capital.
Chamath Palihapitiya Weighs Lessons from a ‘Tough Week’
With his deals seeing double-digit declines, the venture capital star encourages fellow investors not to be afraid of making changes.
Alternatives
Oxford University, GAV Start Conservation Venture Capital Fund
The fund has been seeded with a $25 million special purpose investment vehicle.
What Artificial Intelligence Can—and Can’t—Do for Investors
While machine learning still has major shortfalls, it is gaining ground at divining useful patterns, like analyzing how executives talk in earnings calls.
Corporate Moves
Rens Götz Leaves ABB, Follows Ex-Boss Elisabeth Bourqui to Her New Asset Management Firm
The one-time ABB pension asset allocator, after her short and bumpy interlude at CalPERS, co-founded BERG and now has hired him.
Why Venture Capital Is Doing So Well
With stocks and bonds offering meager futures, pension plans and other investors find under-appreciated VC beats another alt, private equity, which grabs all the attention.