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Bloomberg
22-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Mystery Options Buyer Bets Some $3 Billion on US Stock Rally
An institutional investor's multi-billion dollar bullish bet on US stocks has become the talk of the options market. Over the past month, market participants have noted steady buying of mostly June 2027 call options across a swath of large US companies. Estimates vary of the total premium being spent, with Nomura Holdings Inc. tallying nearly $3 billion.
Bloomberg
19-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Guess Where Harvard's Private Equity Will Likely End Up
Imagine an institutional investor that allocates a big chunk of its portfolio to illiquid private assets but then needs to sell some of those investments to raise cash. Or a fund company that makes a fortune on actively managed mutual funds for decades, but its investors move their money to low-cost index trackers. Or a financial research company built around selling ratings of actively managed funds that people no longer buy. Those may sound like three unrelated problems, but they all have a single solution, apparently: Sell private assets to financial advisers and unsuspecting retail investors.
