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Ernie Rogers, Chief Operating Officer & Partner at Magnetar, recently participated in the "M&A and Investing in Gen AI” panel at Citi’s Gen AI Summit 2024. The event brought together strategic companies, entrepreneurs and investors to discuss trends, opportunities and challenges in Generative AI investing. During the panel, Ernie highlighted Magnetar’s approach and processes to identify and invest in AI/ML opportunities and shared insights on how Magnetar’s nearly 20 years of experience in financial markets and operational expertise has helped our portfolio companies, including those within the AI ecosystem, achieve growth. Generative AI companies, along with the high-performance compute fueling them, are transforming the future. We’re excited to see how further investment in the space will drive continued evolution and disruption. #CitiGenAISummit #GenAI #AIInvestment #HPC #Magnetar

Discover how #SpecialtyFinance is driving the economy in our newest thought leadership feature with Private Debt Investor. In this piece, Magnetar's Managing Partner, Dave Snyderman, and Head of Strategy, Erik Falk, unpack the rise of Specialty Finance, highlighting how the broad investible universe of uncorrelated asset-based investments can offer diversification away from corporate credit risk and enhance the economic resilience of investment portfolios. Gain insights into Magnetar’s investment process as well as the opportunity sets and macroeconomic outlook of Specialty Finance – also known as “Speciality” Finance outside the U.S. – in this comprehensive Q&A. Read the feature here: https://lnkd.in/gYV2Qzx2 #SpecialtyFinance #AssetBasedInvesting #PrivateCredit #PrivateDebtInvestor #Magnetar

Magnetar is thrilled to welcome 62 interns from 39 top colleges and universities to our 2024 Summer Internship Program. These talented individuals are spread across 13 different teams, immersing themselves in the alternative asset industry and gaining valuable real-world experience, along with opportunities for mentorship and networking. Our interns bring fresh perspectives and creative ideas, and we are excited to learn as much from them as they learn from us. Here’s to a summer filled with learning and success! #MagnetarInterns #SummerInternship #FutureLeaders #FinanceInternship #CareerDevelopment #EmergingTalent

Magnetar’s Chief Human Resources Officer, Barbara Bernstein, co-led a workshop on attracting and retaining talent alongside Sapna Vir for Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI)’s North American Stakeholder Forum this week. The event gathered industry professionals to discuss critical and timely human capital-related topics in the alternative asset management community, such as recruiting and attracting top talent and building an inclusive company culture. Thank you, Barbara, for representing Magnetar and lending your expertise! #Culture #Talent #Magnetar #SBAI #AlternativeInvesting

Magnetar is proud to deepen our investment partnership with CoreWeave, a premier specialized cloud provider for complex artificial intelligence workloads, by participating in its $1.1 billion Series C funding round. Announced yesterday, this investment will fuel CoreWeave's rapid growth and geographic expansion, further fortifying the company’s ability to support the quickly evolving AI infrastructure needs of its clients across the globe. Magnetar seeks to identify cutting-edge ideas, technologies and businesses that have transformative potential while working closely with management teams to help them achieve growth objectives. As a leader in the high performance compute space, CoreWeave is at the forefront of the generative AI revolution and it is an honor to partner with them. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gVRSMhBP. #AI #MachineLearning #CloudComputing #SeriesC #CoreWeave #CloudInfrastructure

Magnetar's General Counsel, Karl Wachter, recently participated in this year's #GAIMOpsCayman Conference. Karl joined a panel of esteemed industry experts – Steven H. Bruce, Ian Mason, Kelly Koscuiszka, Joel Wattenbarger and moderator Suzan Rose – to discuss the importance of effective communications with regulators, investors and other key stakeholders during challenging times – a topic of critical importance to the asset management industry. Thank you, Karl, for lending your insightful perspective to this dynamic discussion. #GAIMOps2024 #RegulatoryCommunication #AlternativeInvesting

Following our last whitepaper, which provided an introduction to Regulatory Capital/SRT transactions, Magnetar's Aidan McKeown delves deeper into Regulatory Capital/SRT performance analysis. This analysis dissects transaction pricing, expected loss modeling, and potential returns across market segments, highlighting the structural differences between large corporate and granular SME transactions.   Our latest perspective emphasizes the importance of comprehensive expected loss modeling and return analysis across scenarios – enabling investors to accurately assess the relative value of regulatory capital transactions.   Learn more and request access to the full paper here: https://bit.ly/49eBIcd   #AlternativeCredit #FixedIncome #SRT #RegulatoryCapitalTransactions #InvestmentAnalysis #Thoughtleadership #Magnetar

Tune in to Bloomberg's “Masters in Business” podcast to hear Dave Snyderman, Magnetar’s Managing Partner and Global Head of our Alternative Credit & Fixed Income business, in an in-depth conversation on specialty finance and private credit with podcast host Barry Ritholtz. The episode explores current trends impacting the space today, highlights components of Magnetar’s investment philosophy and process, and offers listeners an inside look at the non-traditional path to the world of money management of one of Magnetar’s senior-most leaders. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gftRciRt #MastersinBusiness #Magnetar #Bloomberg #SpecialtyFinance #PrivateCredit #Alts #Data #Leadership #CareerInsights

Magnetar is proud to sponsor this year’s Pension Bridge Hedge Europe conference in Zurich. The conference, hosted by With Intelligence - Pension Bridge, brings together investment experts and leading hedge fund professionals from Europe’s top institutional investors, family offices, consulting firms and asset managers, to exchange insights on the evolving investment landscape. Sasha Temple-Jones and Antonia O'Connor are representing Magnetar at this event – be sure to look out for them if you’re attending. #PensionsBridgeHedgeEurope2024 #WithIntelligence #AssetManagement #Magnetar #Network

Magnetar is thrilled to share that our Series B funding investments in CoreWeave won mid-market "Growth Equity Deal of the Year" at the 15th Annual M&A Atlas Awards hosted by Global M&A Network, LLC. This recognition is a testament to our team's dedication to thoughtful, strategic and innovative capital allocation and our meaningful partnership with CoreWeave.   Thank you to Tyler Shelepak and Hayley Stein for accepting the award on behalf of Magnetar!   #Dealoftheyear #alternativeinvesting #cloudinfrastructure #AI #machinelearning #CoreWeave #Magnetar