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2024 Investment & Market Updates: How to Reverse a Painful Year with AI Hype and a Frenzied 2-Month Rally

Brian DeChesare

I bought crypto again and was up around 50%, but the percentage allocated was too small to make a big difference. And I used some crypto proceeds to buy a condo whose price rose by 50% over 2 years. I traded individual stocks and had good results with few merger arbitrage and special situations ideas. Treasuries.

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The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023!

Musings on Markets

I was planning to finish my last two data updates for 2024, but decided to take a break and look at the seven stocks (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla) which carried the market in 2023. While these seven stocks had an exceptional year in 2023, their outperformance stretches back for a much longer period.

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Convertible Arbitrage Hedge Funds: The Perfect Combination of Investment Banking and Sales & Trading?

Brian DeChesare

But before delving into the best candidates for these roles, typical trades, careers, and more, let’s start with the basic definitions: What is a Convertible Arbitrage Hedge Fund? If the stock price goes up or down by 10%, but the volatility stays the same, you might not earn or lose anything on the trade.

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A Potent Combo: Misappropriation of Corporate Opportunity Meets Faithless Servant

Farrel Fritz

Ciaccio ruled that a shareholder’s scheme to misappropriate all the assets of an entity by transferring them to a secretly-formed, new entity provided the legal basis for disgorgement of three years – and more than one and a half million dollars – of the shareholder’s employment compensation under the faithless servant doctrine.

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Growth Equity: The Child Prodigy of Private Equity and Venture Capital, or an Artifact of Easy Money?

Brian DeChesare

Some argue that GE offers the best of both worlds: the opportunity to fund innovation and growth – as in venture capital – plus the ability to limit downside risk and invest in proven companies – as in private equity. Others would counter that growth equity’s rapid ascent was mostly due to the easy money that persisted between 2008 and 2021.

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G Mining Ventures and Reunion Gold Announce Combination to Set the Stage for a Leading Intermediate Gold Producer in the Americas

Benzinga

Under the terms of the Agreement, GMIN and RGD shareholders will receive common shares of a newly formed company (the " New GMIN ") equivalent to RGD shareholders being issued 0.285 GMIN common shares for each RGD common share. The Transaction sets the stage for the creation of an Americas focused leading intermediate gold producer.

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Tesla's Trillion Dollar Moment: A Valuation Revisit!

Musings on Markets

While these valuations led me to different assessments of value, there were common themes across time: At its core, Tesla has been an automobile company : In my 2016 post on Tesla , I described it as the ultimate story stock, driven less by news about its most recent financial performance, and more by news that alters its story trajectory.