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David Drake of LDJ Capital banks on Bitcoin to hit the $133,300 mark this 2021

By: David Drake 2020 was a year full of unfamiliarities. COVID-19 was an uninvited visitor that barged itself into our lives and decided to wreak havoc on our fragile world. It caught all of us off-guard and forced us to accept this difficult reality. Several industries bore the brunt of COVID-19, and businesses were barely keeping their heads afloat. Millions […]

Angels Lead Crowd Investors through Syndicate Funding

By David Drake. This is what I want to see: The likes of Angel Capital Association (ACA) and European Business Angel Network (EBAN) embracing and starting to take a proactive role in the new ecosystem where deal flows are coming in quicker and proof of concept brings in regular people investing alongside the angels. Angel investors, through syndicate funding, are […]

High Speed Trader Charged With Manipulating Futures Contracts To The Tune Of $20 Million

The CFTC has filed a civil an enforcement action in New York against Donald R. Wilson and his company, DRW Investments with unlawfully manipulating the price of a futures contract. The CFTC claims that the defendants profited by at least $20 million, while their trading counterparties suffered losses of an equal amount. “Traders cannot engage in manipulative acts to affect […]

95% of U.S. Startups Funded By Angels

By David Drake Angels seem to be everywhere these days. A whopping 95% of the startups in the U.S. in 2012 were funded by angel investors. And the numbers continue to rise. Angel investors, a.k.a. business angels, are affluent accredited investors, typically successful entrepreneurs or retired business people, who invest their own money informally in startup companies. To lessen the […]

The New Institutional Asset Class: Debt Crowdfunding

The New Institutional Asset Class: Debt Crowdfunding By David Drake Institutional investors are still licking their wounds after the real estate market crashed and burned during the last global financial crisis. Some say we got into this financial mess because people were buying houses using their credit cards. However, there is a new asset class emerging from the global financial […]

Breaking: Hedge Funds Start Advertising Blitz

Thanks to Obama’s Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (Jobs Act), the ban on hedge fund advertising has been lifted starting today. The JOBS Act became law in March 2012 and made the initial recommendation to allow “general solicitation” for private issuers. The SEC was given time to evaluate how they could implement it. In a 4 to 1 vote the SEC […]

A Storm is Coming: PE Funds Fall Under Reg D 506

By David Drake In spite of prior delays, on August 29, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission finally issued its first proposals for rules under the Jobs Act that would relax general solicitation for accredited investors. Signed into law on April 5 2012, the Jumpstart Our Business Start-ups (JOBS) Act makes revolutionary changes to federal security laws that are over […]

Stepping on the Peers

Guest Post by David Drake. David Drake is the founder and chairman of LDJ Capital, a New York City private equity firm, and The Soho Loft, a global event-driven financial media company helping funds advertise for investors. You can reach him directly at David@LDJCapital.com.  Institutional investors are taking over the nascent peer-to-peer lending industry, and in doing so, taking the “peer” […]

Advertise for LPs: QIBs This or That – Who Cares If You Have $100 Million?

Guest Post by David Drake. David Drake is the founder and chairman of LDJ Capital, a New York City private equity firm, and The Soho Loft, a global event-driven financial media company helping funds advertise for investors. You can reach him directly at David@LDJCapital.com.  Actually, we care very much about Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs), investors with $100 million+ assets under management, especially […]

JOBS Act Will Create … Hedge Fund Jobs

On September 23, 2013, the long-awaited JOBS Act rules will finally go into effect. From that point forward, hedge fund managers will finally be able to advertise in the United States. Mitch Ackles, the President of the Hedge Fund Association and the CEO of Hedge Fund PR, has been a big supporter of this transition since the day the JOBS Act was signed into law. […]