Tag: Finance
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Bill Hwang, founder of Archegos Capital Management, was charged yesterday with racketeering and securities fraud. How Hwang hid his positions teaches us a lot about how markets work today. How Total Return Swaps Work Archegos Capital Management controlled a majority of the shares of several large public companies without making…
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Last Thursday, I was preparing to judge a startup pitch competition. I thought to myself, “How can I make sure every startup hits the key points?” Then, it came to me: a checklist! Every time you pitch investors, you need to give them certain key pieces of information. Without those…
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Just after announcing plans to re-institute performance fees, failing hedge fund Melvin Capital has backtracked. From the Financial Times: The US-based firm, which lost 53 per cent in January last year after betting against retail investor favourite GameStop, had written to investors only last week with plans to remove a…
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We walked through the bowels of a large warehouse shrouded in darkness. I rounded a corner and shoved open a heavy door with no idea what was on the other side. Suddenly, we were in the world headquarters of WeWork. The famous startup led by Adam Neumann seemed to take…
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The federal government has charged a fraud ring that manipulated numerous US stocks. The group netted $194 million in ill-gotten gains over several years. From Compliance Week: The SEC’s charges, contained in three separate complaints filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, allege that…
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For startups, customer acquisition ain’t what it used to be. Apple effectively ended ad targeting last year. Google plans to do something similar in 2023. Without targeting, you could be advertising a US woman’s underwear brand to men in Germany. Those precious marketing dollars go…poof. But some startups have found…
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Fails to deliver in shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. passed 1.3 million in the latest SEC report. In nearly a year of reporting on this, this is one of the highest figures I’ve seen. Fails to deliver hit 1,327,129 on March 23. They settled at 103,223 at the end…
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Everyone running a startup knows about the deck. There are countless tutorials about how to write this PowerPoint presentation that forms a key part of a startup’s pitch. Shoot, I’ve even written one. But what about the deck’s mysterious cousin: the deal memo? Founders generally send potential investors a deal…
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Never miss a post…subscribe! Citadel Securities LLC paid $2.6 billion in payments for order flow in 2020 and 2021, according to a new report from The Trade, an industry publication. This amounts to over $1 billion a year and dwarfs its nearest competitors: Citadel Securities takes the top spot when…
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Never miss a post…subscribe! AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. has become the 4th most heavily shorted stock in America, according to new data from UBS. Its short interest stands at 20%, per Ortex. Short interest is the percentage of outstanding shares that have been sold short. AMC’s position is particularly striking…
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