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For hedge fund managers navigating an increasingly competitive fundraising landscape, the question of where to allocate investor relations resources is not merely tactical. It is existential. Pension funds, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds receive relentless attention, their gatekeepers overwhelmed by pitches and their allocation committees bound by rigid mandates.

The U.S. federal government has become one of the more active equity investors in strategic industry, and it has happened with remarkably little fanfare. Since January 2025, Washington has announced roughly $27.6bn across 37 deals involving equity or quasi-equity stakes in public and private companies. The stakes span semiconductors, critical minerals, quantum computing and e...

Most hedge fund managers treat legal risk as something to be avoided. Sina Toussi has built a fund around the premise that it is something to be priced.

Toussi, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Two Seas Capital, sat down with Leor Shapiro, Global Head of Capital Introductions at Jefferies, at the firm’s Global Capital Introductions flagship conference in New ...

The consensus in venture right now runs roughly as follows: the best founders have already found their way to Silicon Valley, and the biggest outcomes are built in one place. Don Stalter has built a fund on the conviction that both are wrong. He arrived at the Jefferies Private Growth Conference fresh off a flight fro...

Most CFOs have invested heavily in the technology that governs how their companies spend money. The software governing everything that happens after a deal is signed, how they invoice and collect, until recently, has been patchwork: held together with spreadsheets, professional services, and institutional patience. Re...