Softbank's Vision Fund
No more a tech firm: Softbank gives up pretending it isn't a hegde fund
Masayoshi Son used to run a tech company but he has not 'operated' anything for a while.
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SoftBank touts Vision Fund gains, ditches operating profit as yardstick
Chief Executive Masayoshi Son has long emphasised the total value of assets as his preferred yardstick
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SoftBank has no plan to improve board oversight of Vision Fund: Report
SoftBank has pushed back against creating such a committee, with executives arguing investments already vetted by top management and $3-5 billion deals put to the large limited partners
SoftBank Group seeks to raise additional $10 billion for Vision Fund
The fund plans to reserve some of the remaining cash to pay back a coupon attached to the Saudi investment, said some of the people
Oyo to cut about 5,000 jobs in broad overhaul, highest reductions in China
The restructuring in China is in line with the global restructuring exercise announced in January 2020, said sources.
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SoftBank spends $2.5 bn to get second Vision Fund off the ground: Report
SoftBank was targeting a $108 billion fundraise for the second Vision Fund and had committed $38 billion of its own money towards that goal
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Soaring losses: SoftBank reports near-total wipeout at $100-bn Vision Fund
The numbers are also the latest reminder of the inherent risk in Son's strategy of betting big on untested startups
SoftBank's second Vision Fund is starting life a lot smaller than the first
SoftBank said in July that its second Vision Fund would be even larger than the first, which broke records in 2017 by raising almost $100 billion
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Son's tech bets to cost Softbank first quarterly loss in 14 years?
TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp <9984.T> and its founder Masayoshi Son face a day of reckoning on Wednesday when the investment juggernaut is likely to post weak quarterly results, hit by hefty falls in the valuation of some of its biggest tech bets.
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SoftBank announces new $108-billion Vision Fund with Apple, Microsoft
SoftBank wants to raise a new massive fund every two or three years to take advantage of opportunities he sees in cutting-edge technologies
SoftBank's Vision Fund in may invest $1.5 bn in Chinese used car platform
The move would mark the latest Chinese deal by the mammoth $100 billion investment fund as it looks to expand in the world's No.2 economy
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SoftBank's Vision Fund to hire China team, open its first mainland office
The Vision Fund plans to open its first China office in Shanghai next year, followed by Beijing and Hong Kong
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Masayoshi Son goes on data binge with SoftBank's $100-bn vision Fund
Deals have run the gamut from smaller investments in start-ups to larger deals with public companies
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