AN ALTERNATIVE TO MONEY MARKET FUNDS
AN ALTERNATIVE TO MONEY MARKET FUNDS By Don Ames, Ames Capital Management and Sarasota Family Office Association April is behind us and what an amazing month it was for the markets!! The spread of the deadly coronavirus hammered the markets in March. At its low on March 23, the S&P 500 fell over 35% from […]
Impact Venture Capital – Partnering with Game-Changing Entrepreneurs and Industry-Leading Corporations
Impact Venture Capital – Partnering with Game-Changing Entrepreneurs and Industry-Leading Corporations Impact Venture Capital is a Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests alongside corporate venture groups and top tier investors in seed-stage technology startups with a focus on artificial intelligence applied to cybersecurity, robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, digital health, and other fast-growing industry […]
EPS Holdings Ltd. – A Technology Driven Turbine Engine Company
EPS Holdings Ltd. – A Technology Driven Turbine Engine Company EPS Holdings Ltd. is a privately held, leading edge technology driven company that has developed a re-engineered and highly efficient turbine engine which will be deployed in the Distributed Energy (“DE”) market sector. EPS has researched and completed initial development of a totally re-engineered, highly […]
Hedges Projects Announces Andy Warhol Initiative for Chef Andres and COVID-19 Food Relief Effort
Hedges Projects Announces Andy Warhol Initiative for Chef Andres and COVID-19 Food Relief Effort Beginning May 2, 2020, Jim Hedges and Hedges Projects, LLC will donate 10% of ALL sales proceeds of Andy Warhol photographs to the COVID-19 Food Relief Effort administered by Chef Jose Andres and World Central Kitchen (www.wck.org). “We are in uncharted […]
Family Office Networks Launches FON Marketplace Platform for Public Companies
Family Office Networks Launches FON Marketplace Platform for Public Companies Palm Beach, FL – (December 10, 2019) – Family Office Networks announced today the launch of an online technology platform that offers qualified public companies the opportunity to list on FON Marketplace and connect with family office investors. The new platform can be accessed at […]
Hunting Dog Capital: Intelligent Growth Capital for the Lower Middle-Market
Hunting Dog Capital: Intelligent Growth Capital for the Lower Middle-Market Hunting Dog Capital is a San Francisco-based investment manager founded in 2006 that specializes in providing flexible financing, primarily in the form of senior-secured term loans, to lower middle-market U.S. later-stage companies. Business owners use the loans to facilitate acquisitions, refinance existing debt or for […]
How to Invest in Biotech Series – Phases, Stages, and Pitfalls
How to Invest in Biotech Series – Phases, Stages, and Pitfalls By Marc Appel, CEO, Orange Grove Bio Emily Whitehead was 5 years old when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a serious yet the most common type of childhood cancer. Her cancer was resistant to traditional treatments and her prognosis was poor. In […]
How to Invest in Industrial Real Estate
MOVE OVER APARTMENT buildings: Warehouses are becoming sexier than ever to real estate investors. Though industrial real estate was hit hard during the recession and lagged in its recovery, it is now improving steadily and is perhaps the most desirable commercial real estate class, says Nick Vertucci, a real estate investor and CEO of The Nick Vertucci […]
How Smaller Private Real Estate Funds Can Generate Bigger Returns
It’s hard to disrupt the world of big-name private equity real estate funds and their billion-dollar deals. Yet, while celebrated investment firms amass outsize funds and scoop up trophy properties, they may not be earning the best returns on their investments. Private equity real estate asset managers such as Blackstone, Lone Star Funds and Brookfield […]
Donald Trump, West Palm Beach & the Rise of the New Wall Street
Newsweek – March 2017 The night I flew into West Palm Beach, a string of deadly tornadoes ripped across Florida. High winds pounded surf against jagged coastline and whipsawed the 100-foot-tall trees along Royal Palm Way—what locals call Bankers’ Row. It was just a few days after Donald Trump’s inauguration. A couple of miles down […]