Text size Ares currently has $314 billion assets under management, up from $25 billion in 2008. Dreamstime Ares Management Corp said Monday that it agreed to buy the middle-market lending portfolio of...
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BlackRock Stock Has Slid. Director William E. Ford Scooped Up Shares.
BlackRock stock has tumbled this year, and director William E. Ford, the chairman and CEO of investment firm General Atlantic, scooped up shares of the asset manager on the open market. BlackRock (tic...
Blackstone Earnings Fall to $1.22 Billion
Blackstone Inc.’s BX -6.45% first-quarter earnings fell as the value of the private-equity giant’s investments climbed at a slower pace. The New York firm reported net income of $1.22 billion, or $1.6...
Blackstone’s Earnings Beat Estimates. Assets Under Management Are Rising.
Text size Blackstone Group had net inflows of $50 billion in the quarter. Munshi Ahmed/Bloomberg Blackstone, the private-equity giant, reported higher distributable earnings than expected and came clo...
Why a ‘1970s-style’ inflation spiral is a growing threat, according to a major hedge fund
One of the world’s largest macro hedge funds sees a rising risk of a 1970s-type wage-price spiral, according to a Thursday news report. “This combination of high inflation, tight labour markets, and u...
Pfizer, Moderna and J&J Face Shareholder Pressure to Broaden Covid-19 Vaccine Access
Socially conscious investors and global-health activists are turning to shareholders to press Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers Pfizer Inc., Moderna Inc. and Johnson & Johnson to make more of their s...
War? What war? Why KKR is sticking to its S&P 500 target issued ahead of the invasion of Ukraine
It might seem obvious that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the ensuing sanctions triggered by the West, would make stocks less valuable. But not in the eyes of private-equity giant KKR, in its lates...
Anaplan Stock Surges on Deal to Be Bought by Thoma Bravo for $10.7 Billion
Text size Photograph by Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Anaplan , a provider of business-planning software, agreed to be acquired by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo for $66 a share, or $10.7 billion. The offe...
Kohl’s Is a Takeover Target. What That Means for the Stock.
Kohl’s stock soared on reports of potential takeover offers that could value the company at more than $9 billion. Getty Images Text size Kohl’s investors have been trapped between hopes for a takeout ...
‘We need to increase oil & gas output immediately,’ Elon Musk says as Ukraine crisis jolts U.S. crude to 2008 high
Elon Musk voiced an unusual stance for an electric-vehicle executive on Friday. Tesla Inc.’s TSLA, -0.12% chief executive said the U.S. needs to immediately increase production of oil and gas in a twe...
Oil Is Surging. Why Oil Stocks Are Down.
Text size Oil prices are higher, but concerns about economic growth are weighing on oil stocks. Mario Tama/Getty Images Oil prices soared on Thursday after Russia invaded Ukraine. But oil stocks were ...
Why hedge-fund manager Doug Kass says his bearish case is now stronger and dip buyers should bide their time
For equity dip buyers still waiting in the wings, hedge-fund manager Doug Kass suggests holding fire for now as better bargains, and unfortunately worse times, are ahead. “It is my view that the odds ...
Citrix Systems Near $13 Billion Buyout by Elliott, Vista: WSJ
Cloud-computing company Citrix Systems is close to a deal to be taken private, The Wall Street Journal reported. Dreamstime Text size This story originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Cloud-c...
Netflix Co-CEO Reed Hastings Bought $20 Million of Stock
Text size Netflix co-founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings just made his first purchase of the company’s shares on the open market. Henrik Jonsson/Dreamstime.com Netflix ‘s stock has slumped in 2022,...
Opinion: Warren Buffett is teaching meme-stock players and crypto traders some hard lessons about why market fundamentals still apply
In early 2021, age-old investing principles of business valuation were declared passe by meme-stock buyers, SPAC enthusiasts, and crypto-traders. A new generation of market players declared that Warre...
Opinion: The 60%-40% portfolio will deliver anemic returns over the next decade — here’s how to adapt
We have entered a new paradigm of anemic return expectations for traditional asset-allocation models. The prospects of a lost decade ahead are uncomfortably high for portfolios that are 60% invested i...
Opinion: Warren Buffett’s investing prowess will go on forever after researchers cracked his investing code
If you’re an investor in Berkshire Hathaway Inc., your performance need not suffer when Warren Buffett stops running the company. That’s according to researchers who claim to have created a stock-pick...