Many investors like the simplicity, ease and liquidity of investing in a publicly traded fund. There are currently five closed...
Funding Circle is recommending shareholders to approve the wind-down of the Funding Circle SME Income Fund; the fund will continue...
Chip Mahan, helped build Live Oak Bank as well as nCino; now Mahan along with Gene Ludwig are creating a...
QED is one of the leading venture capital firms in fintech; they have many notable investments such as Nubank, SoFi,...
Bill Miller discusses his $154 million hedge fund MVP 1 and its 30% allocation to bitcoin in a Wall Street Journal article; the fund is up 72.5% this year and according to a letter to investors the fund paid an average price of $350 per bitcoin; while his fund has done well he is aware of the risks that bitcoin could go to zero, providing his perspective in the article. Source
Today, a new direct lending fund from Ranger Capital will be listed on the London Stock Exchange. This will be...
The fund expects to provide a dividend of 15p per quarter by the end of the second quarter of 2018; this would represent a yield of 7.8%; the fund shared that it had a pipeline of attractive yielding assets of £400m and will increase share buybacks. Source
Gary Melara has been working with artificial intelligence (AI) programs for decades. So, when he first considered investing in Prosper...
Today, SoFi announced a new index fund focused on the gig economy; GIGE trades on the Nasdaq and is actively...
Balderton Capital is best known for their fintech investments in Nutmeg, Revolut, Crowdcuve and Prodigy Finance; the firm has now launched their sixth fund totaling $375 million from investors in Europe, Asia and the US; they have made 10 investments across five countries since March. Source