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Representative image Trade Watchlist Portfolio Message Set Alert live bse live nse live Volume Todays L/H More × India’s largest luxury and premium watch retailer Ethos on May 17 mopped up Rs 141.68 crore from nine anchor investors, ahead of its IPO. The public issue will open for subscription on May 18 and close on May 20. The company in its BSE filing said it has finalised the allocation of 16.14 lakh equity shares to anchor investors at a price of Rs 878 per share. ICICI Prudential Flexi Cap Fund bought 5.30 lakh shares in Ethos Limited, Jupiter India Fund purchased 3.73 lakh shares, Saint Capital fund bought 1.59 lakh shares and 1.55 lakh shares were bought by Cohesion MK Best Ideas Sub-Trust in the luxury watch retailer. Jupiter South Asia Investment Company Limited – South Asia Access Fund bought 77 thousand shares while Coeus Global Opportunities fund, Alchemy … [Read more...] about Ethos raises Rs 141.68 crore from anchor investors ahead of IPO

The bottom fell out from one of crypto’s fastest growing blockchains, LUNA, which promised to succeed where bitcoin failed. Its predictable collapse reverberated across the entire crypto market and is forcing investors to pick up the pieces. C rypto’s history has been defined by five resets. The first came in 2014 when what was basically the only bitcoin exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, imploded following a nearly half-billion-dollar hack. The second, in 2016, was The DAO hack, when an attacker tricked a smart contract into giving away $60 million worth of ethereum, worth $8 billion today. The third, in January 2018, occurred when the ICO bubble popped, starting a year-long decline wiping out 60% of the crypto market or more than $700 million mostly in the form of worthless junk tokens. The fourth took place in March 2020 when crypto lost 40% of its value along with most other global financial markets. Each reset not only led to price-market capitalization increases, they … [Read more...] about Crypto’s Great Reset: How Digital Asset Investors Will Recover From The Market’s $1 Trillion Meltdown

Razorpay Founders Shashank Kumar & Harshil Mathur B2B payments and neobanking platform Razorpay is looking to get new investors on board through a share sale of $75 million by its employees, the company said on May 10. The purchase will be led by Lightspeed Venture Partners along with participation from Moore Strategic Ventures who will subsequently join the company’s cap table. This will also be Razorpay’s fourth and largest Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) buyback till date, and the second largest in the startup space after Flipkart’s Rs 600 crore buyback in July 2021. 650 of the startup’s existing and former employees will be eligible for this across roles including software engineers, product managers, customer experience agents, sales, and administrative staff. In December 2021, Razorpay’s valuation had jumped from $1 billion to $7.5 billion after the startup raised $375 million in its largest round. In an interview with Moneycontrol, Razorpay’s founder and … [Read more...] about Lightspeed and Moore Strategic Ventures become investors in Razorpay by buying employee shares worth $75 mn

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The war in Ukraine, skyrocketing inflation and soaring commodity prices have combined to create the perfect setting for macro hedge funds this year, and most of them have taken advantage of it. Investors also expected robust returns from macro funds, so they have already poured billions of dollars into the strategy year to date. However, there is one other hedge fund strategy that's outperforming macro year to date, and that's managed futures. Macro events boost macro hedge funds According to a report from With Intelligence released last week, the HFM Macro Index was up 3% for the first quarter and 5.7% for the 12 months ending in March. Managed futures funds returned 7.7% for the first quarter and 5.5% for March. The HFM Global Composite was roughly flat for the first quarter, down 0.1%, while U.S. stocks declined 4.9%. Equity funds were in the red for the first quarter, returning -3.6%. Event-driven funds were … [Read more...] about Investors Favor Macro Hedge Funds With Flows, But This Strategy Is Outperforming Macro

Elon Musk - A + A HONG KONG (May 17): Elon Musk has declared he will not proceed with his US$44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc unless the social media giant can prove bots make up fewer than 5% of its users, casting yet more uncertainty over the deal. The billionaire tweeted "this deal cannot move forward" unless Twitter provides proof of its claims, reiterating his own view that the ratio is far higher. Musk's latest online pronouncement complicates an already chaotic takeover, potentially one of the largest acquisitions the internet industry has ever seen. He recently butted heads online with Twitter chief Parag Agrawal over the way the social media giant accounts for bots, stoking speculation Musk may try to lower the price or even walk away. Twitter's shares fell another 3.2% in pre-market trading in New York, after sliding more than 8% on the previous day. The spread between Musk's offer price of US$54.20 and its last trading price is currently about … [Read more...] about Musk says Twitter must prove bot claims for deal to proceed

- A + A DUBAI/LONDON (May 17): Saudi Aramco is considering an initial public offering (IPO) of its trading arm amid a boom in oil prices in what could be one of the world's biggest listings this year, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The state-controlled oil major is working with banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and Morgan Stanley as it studies a potential listing of Aramco Trading Co, the people said, asking not to be identified as the information is not public. The trading unit could fetch a valuation of tens of billions of dollars, the people said, with two of them saying it could be potentially worth more than US$30 billion. Aramco, which recently became the world's most valuable company, could sell a 30% stake in the division, two of the people said, which would make it one of the world's biggest IPOs this year. South Korea's LG Energy Solution raised about US$10.8 billion in January. Other major oil … [Read more...] about Saudi Aramco said to weigh IPO of trading unit amid oil boom

BEIJING (Bloomberg): China’s top economic official gave an unusual public show of support for digital platform companies Tuesday (May 17), suggesting Beijing may be ready to let up on a year-long clampdown on technology giants as it battles a slowing economy. The government will support the development of digital economy companies and their public listings, Vice Premier Liu He, who is President Xi Jinping’s most senior economic aide, said after a symposium with the heads of some of the nation’s largest private firms. Baidu Inc. founder Robin Li, Qihoo 360 Technology Co.’s Zhou Hongyu and NetEase Inc chief William Ding were among the tech luminaries spotted at the forum, according to a video posted online. Liu’s remarks reported by state media were short on detail but signal further easing of the regulatory risk for China’s technology behemoths including Baidu and Tencent Holdings Ltd., as investors await clues on whether a rout in their shares is near an end. The Hang Seng Tech … [Read more...] about China economy czar vows support for tech firms after crackdown

- A + A MUMBAI (May 17): Shares in Life Insurance Corp of India (LIC) slid nearly 8% on its market debut on Tuesday, a fresh setback for the state-owned giant as its record-breaking, oversubscribed initial public offering (IPO) raised far less than expected for the government. India's biggest insurer and largest domestic financial investor closed at 875.25 rupees, compared with the IPO price of 949 rupees. LIC now has a market value of around 5.54 trillion rupees (US$71.54 billion) and is India's fifth-biggest company. The share-price decline reflects weak overall market sentiment and a slump in the broader market since LIC's IPO opened for subscription on May 4, analysts said, even as the blue-chip NSE Nifty 50 index closed up 2.6% on Tuesday. "We were not expecting a big listing as markets were jittery, expect it to pick up," LIC's chairman M R Kumar told reporters. The government, which had positioned the sale as the first and biggest of a wave of … [Read more...] about LIC shares tumble in market debut after record India IPO

- A + A PUTRAJAYA  (May 17): The National Recovery Council (MPN) on Tuesday proposed that the government exempt foreigners from Bumiputera equity ownership conditions for land acquisitions that exceed RM20 million involving investment in the services sector, for two years — the estimated period needed to get Malaysia's economy on a better footing after the damage wrought by Covid-19. MPN's proposal stems from a government finding that foreign investments worth RM58 billion could not be realized and had to be foregone because of investor constraints in meeting the equity condition. MPN chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin pointed out that the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) had reported that foreign investments worth RM58 billion could not be realized due to investor constraints in meeting the condition. “This condition can be re-imposed when the post-pandemic economy has fully recovered. Such measures have been taken by the Government before, when … [Read more...] about MPN chairman Muhyiddin moots exemption to Bumiputera equity ownership conditions for land acquisition

This article first appeared in The Edge Malaysia Weekly, on September 7, 2020 - September 13, 2020. - A + A IT would not be an exaggeration to say that Solarvest Holdings Bhd is the goose that lays the golden egg for building materials distributor Chin Hin Group Bhd. Founded by low-profile businessman and savvy investor Datuk Seri Chiau Beng Teik, Chin Hin is one of the largest companies in its sector. The group reported a net profit of RM7.47 million in its second quarter ended June 30 (2QFY2020) after recording a disposal gain of RM27.8 million from divesting 25 million shares in Solarvest, representing a 6.4% stake, at RM1.25 apiece. Excluding this one-off item, Chin Hin was expected to report a core net loss of RM20.3 million in 2Q, given that all of its business divisions sank into the red as a result of plant shutdowns and reduced activity on the back of the Movement Control Order (MCO). Bursa Malaysia filings show that Chin Hin disposed of 20 … [Read more...] about For Chin Hin, Solarvest is the goose that lays the golden egg