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Price vs Value (Part 2): The Financialisation of Startup Investing

Equidam

Many young companies chose to stay private longer rather than face the heavy compliance burden of SOX. Or do you back smaller funds that aim for concentrated bets and potentially higher alpha (but may miss out on some trendy deals and can’t deploy as much capital)? Use data, but stay grounded in reality.

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ESG Valuation Considerations – Top Down or Bottom Up?

Value Scope

This work can be used to reconcile and support an adjustment to the CAPM, then the WACC, via Alpha and Beta. Using Alpha, however, it could be done. Alpha is an adjustment made to the Capital Asset Pricing Model (“CAPM”) as part of the calculation of the Weighted Average Cost of Capital, or “WACC.” million to $271.5

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Commodity Hedge Funds: The Most Lucrative “Hidden Gem” in Finance?

Brian DeChesare

If you consider newer commodity hedge funds with strong performance, the names might include Quantix Commodities, East Alpha (quant), Statar Capital (natural gas), Valent (renewables), Drakewood (metals), Orion (discretionary), and PIMCO’s Commodity Alpha Fund (PIMCO is not “new” and is not even a hedge fund, this specific fund launched in 2013).

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Isoray Announces Transformational Merger and Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Fiscal Year End 2022 Financial Results

Benzinga

Viewpoint) a precision oncology company developing alpha-particle therapies and complementary diagnostic imaging agents. In line with our focus on ‘treating cancer from the inside out,' one therapeutic area that has been of great interest to us is targeted alpha therapy.

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SEC Announces Enforcement Results for FY 2022

Reynolds Holding

We expect compliance.”. A hallmark of the Enforcement Program in fiscal year 2022 was robust enforcement through resolutions that imposed penalties designed to deter future violations, establish accountability from major institutions, and order tailored undertakings that provide potential roadmaps for compliance by other firms.

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ISS Discusses Largest Securities-Related Class Action Settlements of 2023

Reynolds Holding

After a decades-long history of alleged “reckless” and “unsound” practices, including the opening of millions of fake accounts, federal regulators imposed punitive consent orders on Wells Fargo, requiring a compliance and corporate oversight overhaul.

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Learning Old Lessons From Recent Life Sciences Earnout Disputes: Above All Else, Words Matter

Cooley M&A

More than 80 Auris personnel were diverted from progressing development of iPlatform required to satisfy the earnout milestones to instead do work to stabilize iPlatform’s alpha robot in order to face the post-beta Verb robot in Project Manhattan.

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