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The Sugar Daddy Effect? Assessing Corporate venture capital, Sovereign funds and Green Energy!

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Arguably, this is the prime rationale for the growing venture capital arms at pharmaceutical companies, with almost $30 billion invested in biopharma ventures just in 2022. Asia has the largest number of sovereign wealth funds, but the funds from the Gulf/Middle East are among the largest, in terms of funding at their disposal.

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Walmart+ And Amazon Prime Face Off As Consumers Decide Who Gets Their Business

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The acquisition of PillPack put Amazon in the online pharmaceutical business, and its addition of product insurance and extended warranties put it into the insurance business. By the numbers, retail takes a little less than a third (30.8 In 2018, Amazon was reportedly in talks with regulators to launch an insurance comparison website.

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Transcript: David Conrod – The Big Picture

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I left HSBC Group at the end of 1999, and some friends of mine that I’d known a long time had came on — came out of the fixed income side at a number of investment banks, generally, top II-rated (ph) mortgage research and more — traders, fixed income salesman, and to raise third-party capital broker-dealers required. CONROD: Sure.

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. The s and p 500 has underperformed his fund by 3.7%

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Transcript: Richard Bernstein

Barry Ritholtz

So up 18 or 19 percent for the year, you see those spectacular numbers. BERNSTEIN: I was a maintenance guy in a pharmaceutical plant. BERNSTEIN: So, Barry, I would argue that the number one factor that caused secular disinflation was globalization. Number one is one has to remember that that’s what the Fed is trying to do.