Tag Archives: venture capital
Unlocking the Vault: Apollo Global and the Rise of the UK Long-Term Asset Fund (LTAF):
(HedgeCo.Net) The Great Liquidity Migration For decades, the UK’s Defined Contribution (DC) pension schemes were largely locked out of the highest-yielding asset classes: private credit, infrastructure, and venture capital. Today’s launch of the Apollo LTAF represents the crumbling of that wall. Authorized by […]
The Retailization of Private Markets:
How Alternative Investment Giants Are Opening the Gates to Individual Investors: (HedgeCo.Net) For decades, private markets—including private equity, private credit, venture capital, and infrastructure—were largely reserved for institutional investors such as pension funds, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds. Access to […]
Hedge Funds Push Into Quantum Computing:
“The Next Frontier: Why Hedge Funds Are Quietly Positioning for a Quantum Computing Breakthrough.” (HedgeCo.Net) Quantum computing has long lived on the fringes of institutional portfolios — fascinating, futuristic, and fundamentally uncertain. For years, it was the domain of venture […]
Private Equity’s “Great Unlocking” Meets a Re-Opening IPO Window:
(HedgeCo.Net) If 2022–2025 was about holding assets and protecting marks, 2026 is shaping up as the year GPs try to realizegains again—because liquidity is now a strategic necessity. Private equity and venture capital have been bottlenecked by a simple constraint: muted […]
Venture Capital & AI: a New Fundraising Wave Emerges”
(HedgeCo.Net) Andreessen Horowitz raised $15 billion across multiple new funds — a huge vote of confidence amid otherwise weak VC fundraising in 2025. 1. VC Fundraising in Tough Markets 2025 marked the weakest year for U.S. VC fundraising since 2017, […]
Investors eye top startups as IPO market awakens
Reuters – Investors, encouraged by a growing number of acquisitions and public floats in the past few months, are keeping a close eye on a coterie of promising startups in Silicon Valley. An informal poll of venture capitalists and others […]
Abbott Capital Management closes $1bn private equity fund of funds
AltAssets – Abbott Capital Management, a US-based independent investment manager, announced today that it has met its target for the Abbott Capital Private Equity Fund VI, having raised over $1bn. Like Abbott’s previous funds, the investment strategy for ACE VI […]
John Rutledge
Forbes – John Rutledge is the chairman of Rutledge Capital, a private equity investment firm that has invested more than $150 million in middle-market manufacturing, distribution and service companies. He is also member of the Advisory Boards of B.V. Group, […]