| Happy Saturday! First, an exciting update. Our associate finance editor, Dan DeFrancesco, has started writing up a recap that you should be seeing in your inbox each weekday morning. We're hoping you'll enjoy the added personal touch on the daily newsletter. (You'll also still be getting this roundup every Saturday.) If you're not yet a subscriber, you can sign up here. Now, onto this week's big stories from the Business Insider finance team. The savviest hedge funds need employees with specific skills to keep up — and keep ahead — in a rapidly changing world. That means data scientists, coders, engineers, and systems managers. And while those skills might seem to make the most sense in Silicon Valley, Wall Street has been working for years to pry people away from Big Tech. And as Bradley Saacks reports, it looks like the efforts have been paying off for some: 
You can read the full story here: There's also plenty to talk about when it comes to the winners and losers on the performance front in 2020. After a tumultuous start to the year, many big-name hedge fund managers are back in the black. For one, $34 billion Citadel is dominating 2020 —Bradley took a look at how it's outperforming rivals, and the hedge fund's plan for its latest Goldman hire. But plenty of players haven't been so lucky, and Bradley also rounded up seven big names that are tanking as their credit and quant strategies flounder. Keep reading for a look at who's leading Goldman Sachs' merchant-banking division; what Facebook's mega NYC real-estate deal means for the future of the office; and why one fintech is looking for ways to let kids play the stock market. Enjoy the weekend, Meredith
Who's leading Goldman's merchant-banking division 
Goldman Sachs' merchant-banking division has been ground zero for CEO David Solomon's push to build an alternatives investing powerhouse. That strategy has required a combining of several disparate teams from across the firm, which prompted some turnover. But the management team has stabilized in recent months, and Dakin Campbell mapped out who's running the show now. Read the full story here:
A quick fix for valuation woes? 
As Bradley Saacks and Meghan Morris reported this week, some of the world's most well-known private companies have lost value since the pandemic's start.And even before the coronavirus hit, a survey of venture capitalists found that a majority believed unicorns were "significantly" overvalued. But bankers and valuation experts see a potential quick fix to falling valuations: SPACs, which have taken Wall Street by storm over the last month. Read the full story here:
Don't write off the office just yet 
Facebook is now extending its work-from-home policy until summer 2021. But the tech giant has also moved forward with a massive lease to take all of the office space in the Farley Building on Manhattan's West Side. The deal marks a major vote of confidence in New York City's office market at a moment when its future has been thrust into question by the coronavirus pandemic. Read the full story here:
Cold storage is a red-hot real estate play 
Once an obscure corner of real estate, cold storage has seen a jump in demand thanks to surging online grocery orders and shifting consumer preferences for fresh foods. And as Dan Geiger reported this week, cold-storage giant Lineage Logistics has expanded its dominance in the space by scooping up 24 warehouses across the US for more than $500 million. Read the full story here:
Parental control for investing 
Greenlight, the personal financial management app for kids and parents, has seen its user base double since the start of the year. Now it's building an investing feature where kids can propose stock and ETF trades to their parents. "To build true wealth, you really need to learn how to invest," Tim Sheehan, cofounder and CEO of Greenlight, told Business Insider's Shannen Balogh. "So we want the kids to try to learn that as early as they can, and to do it in a supervised environment." Read the full story here:
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