Investment Week is hosting its Alternatives Briefing at a pivotal time for investors as they start to position for the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, although risks remain.
During this interactive briefing, we will hear from a number of alternatives managers about their response to the extraordinary events of the past year and their outlook for the rest of the year and beyond.
The managers will identify where they are seeing the biggest opportunities and risks at the moment for their portfolios and explain the role their strategies could play in helping diversify client portfolios.
Attendees will also get the chance to network with peers, quiz our speakers, as well as benefit from CPD points.
Feb 23, 2021 10:15am GuideTx’s LNP screening technology tags nanoparticles with DNA barcodes, which allows hundreds of nanoparticles to be screened in one experiment, in a single animal. (Beam Therapeutics)
Not all gene editing treatments are created equal that’s why Beam Therapeutics started out with multiple technologies from the likes of MIT, Harvard University, the Broad Institute and Editas Medicine. Now, it’s adding another arrow to its drug delivery quiver with its $120 million acquisition of GuideTx, a Georgia Tech spinout.
The all-stock deal will see Beam fork over $120 million upfront, but GuideTx shareholders could yield up to $320 million more in milestone payments. Beam is betting that adding GuideTx’s lipid nanoparticle (LNP) drug delivery vehicles to the mix will boost the reach of its genetic medicines into new tissues and disease areas.
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen dropped hints about her approach to taxes, digital currencies and more.Credit.Brendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
What Janet Yellen thinks
The Treasury secretary opened the DealBook DC Policy Project yesterday, one of the few media interviews she has given since taking the job last month. Although she was typically understated in her conversation with Andrew, she dropped hints about some of her biggest priorities. Here’s what we think she’s planning:
On jobs: Ms. Yellen said that the goal was to “get unemployment down to the levels we enjoyed prior to the crisis.” But she’s looking beyond the headline unemployment rate at bigger, broader numbers, and believes that the government has capacity to take on even more debt suggesting she’ll push for more stimulus and other policies to goose the economy.