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Family offices are targeting 800% returns with SPAC economics Ark Invest's Cathie Wood thinks Shopify could be next Amazon Christine Poole's Top Picks: April 15, 2021 Cooler heads prevailed (mostly) during COVID market mayhem: Survey Coinbase optimism on Wall Street battles Bitcoin weakness China's very bad bank: Inside the Huarong debt debacle David Fingold's Top Picks: April 14, 2021 Archegos ripples through banks' lucrative hedge fund business Turkey bans cryptocurrency payments, saying risks are too great NFT fans want to crack the Da Vinci code Fat finger briefly trims US$4B off Barclays...

Family Offices: Karen Pritzker, Dan Och, Ed Freedman Bet on SPACs Related Stories April 9, 2021 April 6, 2021 April 5, 2021 The Pritzkers built an empire spanning hotels to manufacturing before agreeing two decades ago to split up their fortune among 11 descendants. Karen Pritzker Karen Pritzker, one of the heirs, has parlayed that wealth into venture capital, backing firms such as Snap Inc. and The Pritzker Vlock Family Office is the anchor investor for Thimble Point Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company that raised almost $300 million in an initial public offering in F...

Family Offices Targeting 800% Returns with SPAC Economics But family offices—the discrete, sometimes secretive firms that manage the affairs of the ultra-rich—have been one of the biggest driving forces. Apr 16, 2021 (Bloomberg)—The Pritzkers built an empire spanning hotels to manufacturing before agreeing two decades ago to split up their fortune among 11 descendants. Karen Pritzker, one of the heirs, has parlayed that wealth into venture capital, backing firms such as Snap Inc. and Spotify Technology. Now she’s joined the wave of investors turning to blank-check firms. The Pri...

Momentus CEO Mikhail Kokorich resigned in January 2021 due to regulatory concerns. Photo: Momentus Momentus‘ founding CEO Mikhail Kokorich has resigned amid the company’s efforts to go public, due to regulatory concerns with his status as a Russian citizen. The company announced Jan. 25 that Kokorich has resigned, and Dawn Harms has been named interim CEO.   Stable Road Acquisition Corp., through which it will become a publicly traded company. The company said in the Jan. 25 release that along with Stable Road, it determined Kokorich’s resignation was in the company’s best interest ...

January 28, 2021 It’s no surprise that the world of meme-driven stock speculation and the “new space” business have significant overlap. Market watchers have been transfixed by the surging share price of GameStop, a brick-and-mortar video game retailer that has seen its value increase more than twelvefold thanks to the wild intersection of an activist investor promising to transform the company for the digital era, massive bets against GameStop by short-selling hedge funds, a flood of retail investors coordinating on Reddit to make counter bets on the stock’s rise, and trading algorit...