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Why Activist Investors Are Rooting for Donald Trump

Reynolds Holding

4] Activist funds also benefited, like many other investors, from the low interest rates of 2016 through 2020. The Obama administration’s SEC proposed rules providing for such a card in October 2016. See “The Gordon Gekko era: Donald Trump’s lucrative and controversial time as an activist investor,” CNN, August 23, 2016, [link].

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Kuwait: Balancing Revenue Growth With Stability

Global Finance

Markaz also hopes to widen its product portfolio focus on thematic funds and products based on alternative asset classes like Private equity and Private Credit. It is currently in the third phase an ambitious Market Development Plan, with attracting local family businesses to list being one of the main challenges ahead.

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Forecasting Future Fraud: Q&A With Joanne Horton Of Warwick Business School

Global Finance

So, they ended up, in 2015 and 2016, creating fictitious revenues, valuing the inventory upward, channel stuffing, and many other things. Its going to change your equity, your retained earnings, your profits, your earnings per share, your EBIT, your EBITDAall these numbers would change. But in the end, they couldnt maintain that.

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CFO Corner With Thryv Holdings’ Paul Rouse

Global Finance

Thryv was formed in a 2017 merger between Dex Media, a Yellow Pages publisher that restructured its debt in 2016, and YP Holdings, another Yellow Pages publisher. This means having the right mix of debt and equity and keeping all stakeholders aligned. These are two entirely different businesses. GF: What keeps you up at night?

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Aflac’s Brad Dyslin On Japan’s Investment Shifts, Tariffs, And Insurance M&As

Global Finance

Ten-year government bond interest rates were below 2%, and then they went negative in 2016. The second, like much of the industry, is how weve utilized private assets in the portfolio, notably private credit and private equity. They had been extremely low for at least the last 25 years, even before the financial crisis. For the U.S.

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Torex Gold to Acquire Prime Mining

Benzinga

per Prime Mining Share based on the closing price of the Torex Shares on the TSX on July 25, 2025 and implies an equity value for Prime Mining of approximately $449 million (US$327 million). Torex completed the construction of the ~US$800 million El Limón Guajes mine in 2015 and commenced commercial production in April 2016.

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Exagon Impact Capital Acquires SunRoof, a Latin American Renewable Energy Platform, in Strategic Addition to XLA I Portfolio

Business Wire M&A

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Exagon Impact Capital (“Exagon”), a private equity firm advancing the renewable energy transition in Latin America and the Caribbean, announced the second portfolio company acquisition on behalf of its inaugural fund, Exagon Latin America Fund I (“XLA I”).