Download PDF Introduction Private credit denotes any debt or extended to privately held companies. It comes in many different forms, but often involves non-bank firms making loans to private companies or purchasing their debt on the secondary market in a variety of ways. To be more specific, Private credit, also Read more…
Download PDF INTRODUCTION Nearly 2 years ago, we wrote our article titled “Investing in the ETF Era”, describing Exchange Traded Funds and their ever-expanding popularity and role in the world of finance (formulating a useful introductory reading to the world of ETFs). This trend hasn’t changed ever since then, Read more…
EQT AB [STO:EQT] – Market Cap as of 04/10/2019 SEK 83.58bn (USD 8.49bn) Introduction On Tuesday, September 24th 2019, the Swedish group EQT— the second largest Private Equity group in Europe — listed on the Stockholm Nasdaq in what was the biggest Private Equity listing of the past decade and Read more…
The concept of risk parity is not well-known among market participants. However, its resiliency to different market environment makes it a very interesting capital allocation strategy. It was first theorized in the sixties by Ray Dalio – founder of Bridgewater Associates – when he tried to find an answer to Read more…
This article will introduce an unconventional way to profit when interest rates rise using inverse ETFs. We will show the upsides and downsides of these tools, focusing on how they could be used in today’s American market. Inverse ETFs could be a useful tool to deal with the possible future Read more…
In the second part of the article, we saw how to spot anomalous price movements and how to profit from the divergence between futures and spot prices in the crypto market. Moreover, we showed the key indicator on which we should always be focused on. In this third part, which Read more…
This article is the follow up to “How to Manipulate the Bitcoin Market (1/3)”. In the second part, we want to show how the spikes in price between the end of May and the first half of June 2016 were the result of just a few investors who used huge Read more…
KKR & Co. LP; Market Cap (as of 03/10/2015): $7.85bn First Data Corporation; Market Cap (as of 03/10/2015): N.A. Introduction On October 1st, 2015 the KKR-owned payment-processing company, First Data, announced the launch of its initial public offering, aiming to raise about $3.7bn. Apart from being the biggest US Read more…
Endo International Plc; Market Cap (as of 13/03/2015): $15.4bn Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd; Market Cap (as of 13/03/2015): $10.8bn Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl, Inc.; Market Cap (as of 13/03/2015): $63.9bn The pharmaceutical sector has turned into a war-zone again with of the bidding war between two aggressive dealmakers and two ex-colleagues: Mr. Read more…
Altice SA; Market Cap (as of 06/03/2015): €24bn Altice’s use of high levels of debt to fund its consolidation of the cable and telecoms sector in Europe has raised many eyebrows among investors and analysts, but so far the risks seem to be paying off. Since it’s initial public offering Read more…
The investment banking industry is expected to announce lacklustre returns for 2013, despite an improving global economy, soaring asset prices and abundant liquidity. According to Deutsche Bank, the overall revenue pool is forecasted to be down by 6% (FICC down by 18%, Equity up by 28% mostly driven by equity Read more…