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Week In Review: China Investors Announce $4 Billion Of Life Science Deals
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ChinaBio® Today
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Saturday, January 28, 2017 2:34 PM EDT
Temasek, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore, invested $800 million in Verily Life Sciences LLC of San Francisco (see story). Verily is the former health sciences division of Google's R&D operations, now spun out into a separate company.
Friday Charts: Unicorns, Hot IPOs And A Biotech Buyout Binge
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Paradigm Press
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Friday, January 27, 2017 4:54 AM EDT
Unicorns — private companies valued at $1 billion or more — are supposed to be a rarity. Only now, they’re everywhere in Silicon Valley.
Hedge Fund Performance: A Multi-Factor Model
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AllAboutAlpha
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Sunday, January 22, 2017 7:56 PM EDT
Dimitrios Stafylas, of Aston University, has proposed a “holistic” model of hedge fund performance attribution with three key features and conclusions how performance differs between established and young funds in both good and bad times.
2017 IPO Prospects: DJI Drones Drive Its Soaring Valuation
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Sramana Mitra
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Sunday, January 22, 2017 2:13 PM EDT
According to a report by Grand View Research, the commercial drone market was pegged at $552 million in 2014 and was projected to grow 17% annually through 2022.
Week In Review: WuXi AppTec Acquires HD Biosciences In China CRO Tieup
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ChinaBio® Today
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Saturday, January 21, 2017 1:56 PM EDT
New Century Healthcare, a Beijing operator of children's clinics/hospitals and a recently acquired women's hospital, completed a $114 million IPO in Hong Kong. The transaction was priced at the middle of the expected range.
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The "Most Bearish Hedge Fund" Capitulates: "We Are Beginning To Close Parts Of Our Short Book"
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Tyler Durden
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Sunday, January 15, 2017 5:46 PM EDT
in November the hedge fund which we previously dubbed "the world's most bearish hedge fund" due to its staggering net bearish bias, had just suffered its worst month in history as "the short book, the bond book and the forex book lost money."
Death By Overfunding: Gilt Groupe
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Sramana Mitra
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Monday, January 9, 2017 11:32 AM EDT
What entrepreneurs should learn from Gilt Groupe’s story is not to get seduced by flashing signs of VC money because it comes with a precise expectation: hyper growth.
Death By Overfunding: Glam Media
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Sramana Mitra
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Friday, January 6, 2017 7:07 PM EDT
Here’s a lesson that startups should take from this story as well as other upcoming media industry failures: pumping huge amounts of venture capital into building audience that cannot be monetized is a very bad business strategy.
Blackstone To Acquire SESAC; Terms Not Disclosed
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The Fly
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017 9:12 AM EDT
This transaction is Blackstone's first investment as part of its core private equity strategy, which is specifically designed to hold private equity investments for much longer periods of time than traditional private equity funds.
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PGIM: Not All Alternatives Are Alike
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AllAboutAlpha
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Monday, January 2, 2017 7:46 PM EDT
A new report from PGIM Institutional Advisory looks at an old question: what role should alternative investments play within the portfolio allocation decisions of institutions?
Billion Dollar Unicorns: JetSmarter Flies Into The Club
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Sramana Mitra
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Monday, January 2, 2017 10:57 AM EDT
Uber has become the poster child of the sharing economy. But according to VBProfiles, the sharing economy has received $15 billion in funding, giving rise to several unicorns.
How Hedge Funds Closed Out 2016, And Why Hopes For A 2017 Rebound May Disappoint
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Tyler Durden
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Sunday, January 1, 2017 4:16 PM EDT
2016 was a year most hedge funds would be happy to forget. And while the same goes for 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010 the vast majority of the two and twenty crowd again failed to generate alpha in 2016.
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U.S. Startups Increasingly Tapping Debt Markets As VCs Pull Back From Egregious Valuations
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Tyler Durden
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Friday, December 23, 2016 5:47 AM EDT
Venture deals in 2016—for all but the hottest startups, anyway—required founders to give up more equity in exchange for less money than they did last year.