Blackstone
NYSE:BXBlackstone Inc. is an alternative asset management firm specializing in real estate, private equity, hedge fund solutions, credit, secondary funds of funds, public debt and equity and multi-asset class strategies. The firm typically invests in early-stage companies. It also provide capital markets services. The real estate segment specializes in opportunistic, core+ investments as well as debt investment opportunities collateralized by commercial real estate, and stabilized income-oriented commercial real estate across North America, Europe and Asia. The firm's corporate private equity business pursues transactions throughout the world across a variety of transaction types, including large buyouts,special situations, distressed mortgage loans, mid-cap buyouts, buy and build platforms, which involves multiple acquisitions behind a single management team and platform, and growth equity/development projects involving significant majority stakes in portfolio companies and minority investments in operating companies, shipping, real estate, corporate or consumer loans, and alternative energy greenfield development projects in energy and power, property, dislocated markets, shipping opportunities, financial institution breakups, re-insurance, and improving freight mobility, financial services, healthcare, life sciences, infrastructure, enterprise tech and consumer, as well as consumer technologies. The firm considers investment in Asia and Latin America. It seeks to invest between $0.25 million and $900 million per transaction. It invests in companies with enterprise value between $500 million and $5000 million. It has a three year investment period. Its hedge fund business manages a broad range of commingled and customized fund solutions and its credit business focuses on loans, and securities of non-investment grade companies spread across the capital structure including senior debt, subordinated debt, preferred stock and common equity. Blackstone Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices across Asia, Europe, North America and Central America.
ProShares UltraShort Consumer Discretionary
NYSEARCA:SCCProShares UltraShort Consumer Services (the Fund) seeks daily investment results that correspond to twice the inverse daily performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Consumer Services Index (the Index). The Index measures the performance of consumer spending in the services industry of the United States equity market. Component companies include airlines, broadcasting and entertainment, apparel and broadline retailers, food and drug retailers, media agencies, publishing, gambling, hotels, restaurants and bars, and travel and tourism. The Fund takes positions in securities and/or financial instruments that, in combination, should have similar daily return characteristics as -200% of the daily return of the Index. The Index is a price return index. The Fund's investment advisor is ProShare Advisors LLC.
812575 (SGF.TO)
TSE:SGFShore Gold Inc. is a Canada-based company, which is engaged in the exploration, development and production of diamonds. The Company's mineral property holdings include the Star Kimberlite Property (Project), which is located in the central part of Saskatchewan, Canada; the Fort a la Corne Joint Venture (FALC-JV) Property, which is located in central Saskatchewan, Canada, and Buffalo Hills Joint Venture, which is located in central Alberta, Canada. The Company's Star-Orion South Diamond Project includes the Star Diamond Project, as well as Star West and the Orion South Kimberlite. The Company acts as an operator of the FALC-JV. The Company's subsidiaries include Shore Mining & Development Corp. and Kensington Resources Ltd.
53693 (VGO.V)
CVE:VGOVogogo Inc., formerly Southtech Capital Corporation, is a risk management and electronic payment services company. The Company develops software that administers various electronic payments, including card payments, pre-authorized debit, peer-to-peer and online banking payments for the United States, the United Kingdom and Canadian markets. It has presence in Canada. It offers risk mitigation services, including know-your-customer (KYC) profiling and on-boarding, client underwriting, fraud mitigation, real time transaction monitoring, and smart transaction routing, coupled with compliance-based services, such as reporting, sanction checks and anti-money laundering-counter terrorist financing (AML-CTF) processes. It also offers a range of payment services that can be sold separately or bundled together with its risk management services. It operates in compliance as a Canadian Money Service Business with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC).