Blackstone's Tony James just joined Sequoia Capital and NerdWallet's cofounder in backing a startup hoping to disrupt the $28 trillion retirement market

Blackstone's executive vice chairman participated in Alto's seed round through his family office, Jefferson River Capital.

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Blackstone's Tony James just joined Sequoia Capital and NerdWallet's cofounder in backing a startup hoping to disrupt the $28 trillion retirement market Dan DeFrancesco | Blackstone's executive vice chairman participated in Alto's seed round through his family office, Jefferson River Capital. Read More »

$100 billion Softbank Vision Fund has shaken up Silicon Valley with mega fundings. A cadre of Deutsche Bank alums are behind many of the deals. Callum Burroughs | Four former Deutsche Bank traders are top level executives at the SoftBank Vision Fund which invests in some of the biggest names in tech. Read More »

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When Cigna fired an employee, her lawsuit was forced into arbitration. She thought she'd found a fair referee — until she saw pictures of him partying with Cigna's attorney. Julie Bort | Glenda Perez's case offers an inside look at what is normally a private black-box process. Read More »

A millennial handling $325 million for the wealthy maps out 2 scenarios for how aggressive to be if you're young and starting to save for the future Marley Jay | The wealth manager Jakob Loescher details two of his approaches to help young clients save for retirement, one aggressive and the other more cautious. Read More »

'The whole world decided to just be stupid': A hedge-fund manager explains why the IPO bubble he sees in WeWork, Peloton, and Chewy could soon face a reckoning Christopher Competiello | Harris Kupperman, president of Praetorian Capital Management, sounds the alarm on companies touted as "disruptive" that aren't disrupting anything. Read More »

Microsoft won a big victory with an $8 billion Pentagon cloud-software contract Rosalie Chan | Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) is a 10-year cloud contract for building productivity software for the US Department of Defense. Read More »

These are the unusual ways WeWork founder Adam Neumann has made millions, and stands to make more, from his $47 billion company about to go public Richard Feloni | WeWork's founding CEO has sold intellectual property to his company, rented real estate to it, and borrowed money from it. Read More »

Here's how VMware is putting its $550 million acquisition of Heptio to work as it builds a new future around Kubernetes, the red-hot cloud software created by Google Rosalie Chan | In December, VMware acquired Heptio, which was founded by ex-Googlers Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda. They helped create the Kubernetes cloud project. Read More »

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