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Private & Structured Credit in the Middle Market: Evolving Strategies & Risk-Reward Trade-Offs

Americas Risk Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Reverence Capital is launching a $500–$600 mi...

The fund will focus on asset-based and proper...

Reverence’s prior private equity Funds I and ...

The fund enters a rapidly growing but increas...

How Richard C. Blum Turned Circus Deals into Big Returns & Philanthropic Impact

Americas Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Richard C. Blum parlayed a 1967 purchase of R...

He founded Blum Capital Partners in 1975, spe...

Blum pursued hands-on, locally informed phila...

His development philosophy favored community-...

Verizon’s Pension Cuts Private Equity Exposure Under New Leadership Shift

Americas Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Verizon’s longtime private equity head Michae...

At year-end 2018, Verizon’s defined benefit p...

By year-end 2023, private equity holdings had...

The leadership change coincided with a strate...

How Reverence Capital Shaped Private & Structured Credit: Strategy & Lessons

Americas Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Reverence Capital hired former Goldman trader...

The strategy centers on asset-based lending a...

Strong performance and fundraising for Revere...

By 2024–2025, Reverence’s credit platform had...

Richard C. Blum Joins SF Fed Economic Advisory Council: Private Equity, Philanthropy & Governance

Americas Policy Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Richard C. Blum, founder of Blum Capital Part...

He was selected to provide private equity and...

The Economic Advisory Council, created in 198...

Blum’s appointment highlights both the benefi...

Richard C. Blum: Blending Value Investing with Global Philanthropy

Americas Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Richard C. Blum made his breakthrough deal in...

He later founded Blum Capital Partners, build...

Alongside investing, Blum pursued large-scale...

Blum’s life illustrates how aligning bold inv...

Fact Check: Claims of Richard Blum’s Recent Death Are False and Misleading

Americas FYI Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Richard C. Blum, investor, philanthropist, an...

Blum served as a UC Regent from 2002 and was ...

A newly circulating article incorrectly impli...

The piece appears to recycle 2022 material wi...

How Hedge Funds Are Ramping Up AI: Strategies, Risks & Key Infrastructure Bets

Americas Tech Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Top hedge funds like Citadel, Balyasny, Two S...

Some firms are launching dedicated AI vehicle...

Capital is heavily concentrated in AI infrast...

Executives highlight unresolved risks around ...

Where Bill Ackman’s Big Bets Lie: Uber, Howard Hughes & His 5 Key Holdings

Americas Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square runs a highly c...

Ackman is turning Howard Hughes into a Berksh...

Uber, a new top holding bought in early 2025,...

This concentrated strategy seeks outsized ret...

Larry Thuet’s Retirement Ushers in Park Hill’s Next Chapter in Private Equity Secondaries

Americas Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Park Hill co-founder and vice chairman Larry ...

Jonathan Costello now leads domestic secondar...

Park Hill, now a unit of PJT Partners after i...

Deals like Providence Equity’s Fund VII secon...