Dry powder, an informal word referring to cash reserves and highly-liquid securities that private equity and venture capital firms have available to deploy when an opportunity arises, is expected to ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

In recent weeks, a debate bubbled up among the venture capital and startup crowd on Twitter about a normally benign financial metric. Dry powder, an estimate of the capital available for VC firms to ...

Tony Daltorio has 30+ years of experience in investments, 18+ years as a broker and supervisor with Charles Schwab, and 9+ years in financial writing. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an ...

Dry powder is money that is ready when an opportunity shows up, so stability and liquidity matter more than chasing yield. Ultra-short Treasury bill exposure is designed to behave much closer to cash ...

Private equity and venture capital's substantial dry powder reserves are a little lighter after an extended downturn in fundraising. Venture capital dry powder hit its year-end high in 2023, peaking ...