Month: October 2020

Under Sheth’s watch, Vista Equity Partners has conducted more software acquisitions than any other … [+] company or investor in recent years. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Following billionaire Robert Smith’s admission to tax fraud last week, one of his private equity firm’s top dealmakers—cofounder and president Brian Sheth—looks set to depart. While Sheth—who launched Vista Equity
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Rayan is COO/CFO at Fraction and advises several startups. Previously, Rayan was COO/CFO at Unison and ran a major Canadian pension fund. getty In today’s market, it’s not uncommon for homebuyers to receive assistance from their parents. The numbers are staggering. A survey from Legal and General found (download required) 43% of homebuyers under 35 received assistance
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Medical workers deliver a patient to the Maimonides Medical Center on September 14, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Coronavirus hospitalizations are growing in a majority of U.S. states as Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, warns that the world is not yet “on
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The Federal Reserve’s intention to leave interest rates alone may get sidetracked. According to Wall Street forecaster James Bianco, the backdrop is conducive for an inflation comeback that would force the Fed’s hand to tighten and upset the stock market. He sees two major factors sparking inflation: A smaller economy than last year due to
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Beware of unknown callers promising stupendous purchase prices for commercial real estate. RANJAN SAMARAKONE Even in today’s uncertain commercial real estate market, long-term family owners of commercial real estate often get phone calls or emails out of the blue from someone offering to buy their property. Often those communications include a very impressive number that
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Raphael Bostic, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Cameron Costa | CNBC The Federal Reserve has a substantial role to play in addressing the racial economic disparities brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, Raphael Bostic, president of the central bank’s Atlanta district, said Monday. Amid a recovery that Bostic called uneven
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High earners in New York and California could face combined federal and state tax rates of 62% under Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s tax plan, according to tax experts. While Americans earning less than $400,000 would, on average, receive tax cuts under Biden’s plan, the highest earners would face double-digit increases in their official tax
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Monday that “we’re in some wacko market” because normally chasing stay-at-home stocks trading at off-the-charts multiples to sales would not make sense, but now the market is rewarding investors who do so. Cramer cited Zoom Video Communications at about 50 times sales and cloud company Snowflake at about 100 times
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getty A Michigan man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the IRS and to stealing from an organization receiving federal funds. According to court documents, Mathew Schwartz owned a law firm called Legal Genius, P.L.L.C. (“Legal Genius”) in Southfield, Michigan. Another man, Jayson Rosett (also charged as a defendant) owned a company called Accident
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