Preqin

BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK) is selling $2.5 billion in U.S. investment-grade bonds to help pay for its $3.2 billion acquisition of private-markets data company Preqin. What Happened: According to Bloomberg, citing an anonymous source, BlackRock Funding plans to sell the notes in three tranches. The...

Distressed investors are viewing the U.S. commercial real estate industry as a utopia of great deals after the COVID-19 pandemic work-from-home shift caused office values to plummet last year. Private equity firms are putting this sector in their crosshairs as they set aside 64% of dry powder...

SoftBank Group Corp (OTC: SFTBF)’s founder and CEO Masayoshi Son plans to make his childhood dreams come true after securing an unparalleled $92 billion in funding for his vision fund. On Monday, SoftBank officially closed the first round of its investment funding, securing investments from...

Are the days of fundamental hedge fund management coming to an end? According to a report from Preqin, a company that provides financial industry data, 40 percent of hedge funds created in 2016 were “systematic,” meaning that they rely on computer models and algorithms to make trading...