10 Most Important Reads Of The Week - Dec 2, 2016
The week of Nov. 28 has been a busy one. Harvard management company was lambasted by alumni for the high fees it paid managers. Trusted Insight named the top 30 limited partners investing in real estate and real assets, including an interview detailing Mark Canavan's niche strategy to generate double-digit returns for the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board. And that's just a sneak peak of this eventful week in instutitional investing.
Elliott Management Urges EMC to Spin Off Its VMware Wire
Hedge-fund manager Elliott Management Corp. said it sent a letter to the board of EMC Corp. urging the data-storage company to spin off its VMware Inc. unit as well as pursue other merger-and-acquist...
Datappraise Gets Capital Boost from Valbridge
Roper called the Valbridge investment "a considerable vote of confidence in Datappraise, our products, and our potential."...
CartoDB Raises $7M to Make Easy-to-Read Maps and Apps
One of CartoDB’s most famous uses was by the social networking giant Twitter, which used it to show where World Cup soccer fans around the world were buzzing over the course of the tournament, and wh...
Supreme Court Says Phones Can’t Be Searched Without a Warrant
In a major statement on privacy rights in the digital age, the Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously ruled that the police need warrants to search the cellphones of people they arrest.
Insight Venture Partners Closes New Co-investment Fund Totaling $510 Million
oday, Insight Venture Partners announced the closing of Insight Venture Partners Coinvestment Fund III, a $510 million private equity fund, established to invest alongside Insight Venture Partners VIII, which closed at $2.57 billion in May 2013. Like its predecessor funds, this fund will invest in global software, internet, and data-services businesses.
New Austin-Focused Real Estate Private Equity Fund Launches
With an experienced data scientist as part of the investment team, John Prior, Inner 10 leverages an analytics-based assessment process and predictive modeling methodology to determine outcomes and optimize results.
Accenture Survey Finds Public Pension Data is Untapped Goldmine
"With nearly 20 million members, public pension managers are sitting on years of untapped data, a goldmine of information with the potential to yield insights and strengthen pension performance."