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Last week, Amira Amin, Magnetar’s COO of Liquid Strategies, represented the firm as a panelist at AIMA - The Alternative Investment Management Association’s “The COO Toolkit: Navigating the Changes and Challenges of Today’s Market” event. During the panel, Amira addressed key challenges and opportunities for COOs, including leveraging AI, optimizing vendor relationships and fostering company culture. She also shared Magnetar’s approach to launching new vehicles and strategies – highlighting the importance of clear prioritization, effective communication and robust organizational structures to ensure operational success. Amira’s perspectives on embracing innovation and promoting collaboration underscore the evolving role of COOs in navigating complex markets. Thank you, Amira, for representing Magnetar, and for providing insight into the complex, fast-evolving role of the COO in asset management. #Magnetar #AIMA #COOToolkit #Operations #AssetManagement #ThoughtLeadership

The latest installment in Magnetar’s Regulatory Capital/SRT transactions whitepaper series explores the critical role of structural leverage in these complex deals. Magnetar's Aidan McKeown examines how structural leverage can influence tranche thickness, pricing, and expected returns. This analysis underscores the importance of understanding tranching, volatility, and rigorous underwriting practices – helping investors evaluate opportunities in the Regulatory Capital/SRT market. To learn more, request access to the full paper here: https://bit.ly/4fwV0O1 ? #AlternativeCredit #FixedIncome #SRT #RegulatoryCapitalTransactions #RegCap #StructuredLeverage #InvestmentAnalysis #Thoughtleadership #Magnetar

Earlier this week, Magnetar and Daversa Partners co-hosted an exclusive evening in Menlo Park, bringing together tech CIOs, CISOs, and leaders in Gen-AI to discuss the future of enterprise AI. The event featured insightful discussions on how AI can drive innovation across industries and enhance critical functions like sales automation, compliance, fraud detection, legal, and finance. Key takeaways from our conversation: ?? ROI There is a demonstrated need for evaluation sets to measure pre- and post-AI efficiencies, especially in fraud detection, audit, and finance—sectors where AI’s ROI is particularly high. ?? Change Management AI’s success is closely tied to robust change management plans. Resistance at the line level remains a significant challenge, underscoring the need for top-down leadership to drive adoption. A critical point: performance management and incentive structures must evolve to reward AI-driven efficiencies. ?? Build vs. Buy An effective AI strategy often involves buying scalable solutions that can be tailored with enterprise data. Building on top of these solutions ensures efficiency without compromising customization. ?? AI Models AI excels as an information search platform, yet reasoning models remain in their early stages. Significant advancements are needed before these models achieve enterprise-wide adoption. A special thanks to our co-host, Daversa Partners, and to all participants who contributed their insights, including leaders from Google, Databricks, Uber, Coinbase, Netflix, CoreWeave, Cohere, Artisan, SentinelOne, Blackhawk Network, Splunk, Unity, PsiQuantum, Glean, Palo Alto Networks, Plaid, Luminai, You.com, Faire, Anduril, MultiOn, Zscaler, Google DeepMind, Orby AI, Activeloop and PEAK6. We’re excited to continue these conversations and together shape the next chapter in enterprise AI! #Magnetar #DaversaPartners #AI #EnterpriseAI #Innovation #FutureOfWork

We are thrilled to share that two Magnetar partners and Management Committee members, Barbara Bernstein and Lavonne Harris, have been honored in The Hedge Fund Journal's "50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds" annual report. Barbara and Lavonne were celebrated alongside other accomplished female investment professionals and senior women in key compliance, audit, operations, finance, administration, sales, marketing and investor relations roles at an event in New York last night. Magnetar is committed to fostering an environment that celebrates and elevates female talent. Barbara and Lavonne exemplify our commitment to excellence, expertise, collaboration and continuous learning, and their leadership has been instrumental in championing growth across our firm. Congratulations to Barbara, Lavonne and all this year’s honorees on this exceptional recognition. #WomenInFinance #AssetManagement #Leadership #TheHedgeFundJournal #Magnetar Magnetar paid a sponsorship fee to be considered for this list. Editors of Hedge Fund Journal selected 50 women to feature in their publication based on the biographies of the individuals.

Magnetar is pleased to announce an expansion of our existing partnership with CoreWeave as co-lead investor in its $650 million secondary sale announced today. This transaction highlights strong institutional support for the CoreWeave platform as it continues to accelerate innovation in high-performance computing and strengthens its market position as a leading specialized compute infrastructure provider. ? As demand for advanced AI solutions intensifies, we look forward to supporting CoreWeave as it continues to shape the future of #cloudinfrastructure. ? Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g_hxK7rp ? #AI #CloudComputing #CoreWeave #Magnetar #MachineLearning #DigitalInfrastructure

Magnetar is thrilled to congratulate Ernie Rogers, our Chief Operating Officer and Partner, for being named Finance Executive of the Year by Kansas State University and inducted into the University’s Financial Executives Hall of Fame. Ernie's leadership and nearly three decades of impact and innovation in the financial industry continue to guide and motivate us. This recognition is particularly meaningful given Ernie’s deep connection to K-State, where his journey into finance began. Magnetar recruits heavily from K-State, a testament to the values and talent cultivated at Ernie’s alma mater. We couldn’t be prouder of Ernie’s achievements and the strong, ongoing partnership between Magnetar and K-State – a connection that continues to shape the future of our firm. #Magnetar #MagnetarLeadership #FinanceExecutiveOfTheYear #KState #FinancialExecutivesHallOfFame

Erik Falk, Head of Strategy at Magnetar, will be speaking at Private Markets Insider’s Alternatives Investment & DealConnect Summit this week on October 23. With nearly two decades of investment experience in private credit, Magnetar is excited to help lead discussions on the evolution of the industry and the potential next phases of the credit cycle. This Summit brings together prominent GPs, bankers, and business owners to explore key trends and opportunities in private markets. We look forward to connecting with industry experts and sharing insights to help inform the future of private market investing. #PrivateMarkets #PrivateCredit #ThoughtLeadership #AlternativeInvestments #Magnetar #GPs #InvestmentSummit #PrivateMarketTrends #DealConnect

We are thrilled and honored to announce that Magnetar has been awarded “Investor of the Year” at Structured Credit Investor's 2024 Capital Relief Trade Awards, held this week in London. ? Among a distinguished group of shortlisted firms, this recognition reflects our long history of investing in Significant Risk Transfer (SRT/CRT) investments, as well as our expertise and adaptability in navigating complex markets. ? We are incredibly proud of our team’s hard work and dedication, and we look forward to continuing our leadership in the SRT space. ? #Magnetar #CapitalReliefTradeAwards #StructuredCreditInvestor #SRT #CRT #InvestorOfTheYear

Congrats to CoreWeave on being first to market with H200, just as they were with H100. A portion of this new cluster is dedicated to our Magnetar AI Ventures fund, through which we will make H200 clusters?available to portfolio companies as part of compute-for-equity investments. This will provide our portfolio companies with access to the performance, speed and efficiency that the CoreWeave platform delivers at scale – and is required for AI innovation.?Connect with us at [email protected].

Today, Magnetar announced the successful close of Magnetar AI Ventures Fund at $235 million. A key component of our venture initiative, Magnetar Ventures, this fund is dedicated to investing in early to growth stage generative AI and ML companies with what we believe to be potentially transformative technologies. Through our strategic partnership with CoreWeave, Magnetar AI Ventures Fund offers our portfolio companies access to dedicated high-performance compute with the objective of providing forward-thinking entrepreneurs with critical resources to develop, deploy and scale the businesses of the future. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gfbq2GVt #Magnetar #MagnetarVentures #AI #ML #VentureCapital #Innovation