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On the Money
Squawk on the Street
Closing Bell
Nov 16, 2007
By Melissa Lee
Is your portfolio in need of a little action? Then you could end up getting lucky. The world's first adult entertainment industry investments firm wants to give investors more...ahem...bang for their buck... Read More
Adult Entertainment Fund Acquires Porn Site
Apr 21, 2008
AdultVest, the Beverly Hills-based firm that focuses on investing in adult entertainment businesses, has acquired IPorn.com through its PriapusInvestment Fund. The firm has hired Mike Weiss, founder of StreamCast Networks and creator of Morpheus... Read More
Hedge Fund Launch of The Year
Apr 18, 2008
It was only a matter of time before an open-minded investor set his sights on the billions of dollars spent on adult entertainment in North America every year. Francis Koenig did just this last year by launching the Bacchus Investment Fund... Read More
Want to be a porn mogul? Investment firm to hold monthly meetings to attract, uh, capital
Feb 28, 2008
By Jon Ogg
Investment conferences are usually pretty dull stuff. A dozen or so execs from small firms get 20 minutes each to stand up at the podium, run through a PowerPoint presentation and try to convince investors to throw some cash their way... Read More
AdultVest Set to Begin Monthly Investor Meetings
Meetings will bring potential investors together with prescreened companies; adult Internet opportunities are of special interest
Feb 27, 2008
By Tom Hymes
Adult investment firm AdultVest has scheduled an ongoing series of monthly meetings to bring potential investors together with adult businesses that represent viable investment opportunities... Read More
AdultVest to Review, Present Proposals Monthly
Monthly meetings to bring together adult companies, prospective investors.
Feb 01, 2008
Finding outside capital is about to get easier. As a response to the difficulty that the adult industry faces in raising capital, investment bank AdultVest has scheduled a series of meetings that will bring investors and capital-seekers together ... Read More
Investment Strategies For the A-hole In You
Conquer today's volatile markets by investing according to your lack of conscience.
Strategy: Sex
Why it's dirty: Porn is a $12 billion industry, but historically almost all of that wealth has been privately held. Then about two years ago AdultVest (adultvest.com) created a pornographic investment marketplace. You can register for their funds if you have access to Peter North-size loads…of cash (at least $5,000). Or you can find a specific company and be a slutty angel investor and even bankroll a production featuring your favorite starlet.
Why it's worth it: Porn production companies can enjoy 60 percent profit margins and collectively boast annual worldwide revenues of $57 billion, yet banks and traditional investors turn their noses up at providing capital. That's why the less squeamish can clean up. "It's not unheard of for investors to generate a two to six times return on their money," says Francis Koenig, former Wall Street hedge fund guru and founder of AdultVest. Plus, "there are certain sectors we call consumer nondiscretionary," Sacknoff says. "Like Kellogg's, people will still want their Corn Flakes in the morning no matter what." Turns out Corn Flakes were originally marketed as a cure for masturbation-and they're both sure financial bets, because neither will ever go out of style. Read More
AdultVest Featured on CNBC
Institutional investment company focuses on adult industry
Nov 19, 2007
By Eddie Adams
AdultVest, an institutional investment company focused on the adult entertainment industry, was featured on the CNBC stock market programs “Closing Bell” and “Squawk on the Street” on Friday. The company, which is headed by Francis Koenig ... Read More
AdultVest Offering Free Trial Memberships
Nov 15, 2007
By Tod Hunter
Investment services company AdultVest will offer its online “investor matchmaking” services free of charge during the beta phase of its new website. “We have a large following of investors and business buyers looking for opportunities,” AdultVest Director of Operations Andy Oleykowski said... Read More
CNBC LIVE Television: Sex Sells!
New hedge fund invests in porn
June 13, 2007
CNBC's On The Money with Melissa Francis talking about AdultVest and its Founder/CEO Francis Koenig ... Click to Play
A Thaw in Investment Prospects for Sex-Related Businesses? Maybe
July 27, 2007
By Matt Richtel
Francis Koenig, a former hedge fund manager and now the chief executive of AdultVest, a small investment banking company in Beverly Hills focusing on the pornography industry, agrees that more investment dollars will appear thanks to the widespread availability of explicit content on the Internet.
"Accessibility breeds acceptance," Mr. Koenig said. He has started two funds to invest in the industry, named the Bacchus and Priapus funds... Read the Full Article
ADULTVEST to Address Private Equity Summit
Investment firm presents strategies for mainstream investors in adult industry ventures.
September 25, 2007
By Joanne Cachapero
ADULTVEST CEO Francis Koenig will speak to attendees of the Opal Financial Group's Private Equity Summit on Oct. 1. The address will be the first time that Koenig will conduct an open forum discussion with institutional investors about his company’s strategies for investment in the adult industry... Read Full Story
Is The Adult Industry In Revolution Or Decline?
© Icqurimage 2007
Several former leading Wall Street investors have now specialized within the adult industry. Former hedge fund manager Francis Koenig founded AdultVest, which has since evolved to become the foremost investment bank for adult companies. With the advent of corporate finance will come corporate accountability, and finally the true financial scale of the adult industry will become apparent... Read Full Story
VCX Inks Deal With FyreTV.com
August 14, 2007
By Steve Javors
Adult industry investment company AdultVest is handling the licensing for FyreTV.com. "As you know, the adult entertainment industry is always a leader in new technology, and I am delighted to know that the classics, once again, will continue to live on," Mara Epstein, AdultVest's director of
business development, told XBIZ... Read Full Story
AdultVest Strikes IPTV Licensing Deal
August 10, 2007
By Eddie Adams
LOS ANGELES - AdultVest, an institutional investment company focused on the adult entertainment industry, has made an exclusive arrangement to handle the licensing for IPTV company, Fyre.TV.
"We had Fyre.TV do demonstrations at Internext... Read More
Adult Entertainment Hedge Fund Adds to Team
July 30, 2007
Adult Vest, the Beverly Hills-based hedge fund and private equity firm that seeks to match adult-entertainment businesses with qualified investors, has added to its team to manage its hedge fund. Howard Gordon, founder... Read More
Porn (Finance) Goes
Mainstream
June 8, 2007
"AdultVest, founded by
hedge fund veteran Francis Koenig, seeks to bring sound financial practices to
the adult entertainment business– not to mention lots of capital. AdultVest
currently is raising money...Read more
Adult Entertainment Firm to Launch Hedge Fund
June 4, 2007
Beverly Hills-based Adult Vest, a firm that seeks to match adult entertainment businesses with qualified investors, is preparing to launch a hedge fund in the next 45 days... Read More
 The
Valley Exposed: Porn investment becomes more mainstream
June 5, 2007
By Gregory J. Wilcox,
Staff Writer
"A former hedge fund manager in New York,
Francis Koenig moved to L.A. last year with one goal: directing traditional
money to a nontraditional investment. That nontraditional investment was porn. The industry itself is becoming more
mainstream...Read more
AdultVest to Launch Hedge Fund
June 4, 2007
Beverly Hills-based Adult Vest, a firm that seeks to match adult
entertainment businesses with qualified investors, is preparing to launch a
hedge fund within the next 45 days. The fund will be originating real estate loans...Read more
AdultVest to Launch Hedge Fund
June 4, 2007
Beverly Hills-based Adult Vest, a firm that seeks to match adult
entertainment businesses with qualified investors, is preparing to launch a
hedge fund within the next 45 days. The fund will be originating real estate loans...Read more
 Getting in the
skin game
An entrepreneur tries to
make it easier for everyone to profit from one of the economy's dirty little
secrets
November 6, 2006
By Paul Sloan, Business 2.0 Magazine
editor-at-large
"Wall Street is largely a boys club, a place packed with hypercompetitive tough
guys proud to wear their machismo on their sleeves. Yet there's still one
investment the Street is generally wary of: porn. That's why Francis Koenig,
a onetime Wall Street hedge fund executive...Read more
AdultVest.com
April 9, 2006
By Luke Ford
"A new venture capital investment opportunity recently popped up on Silicon Valley discussion boards according to Institutional Investor Magazine: "Not every venture capital firm has a website featuring lingerie-clad models tugging on each others' G-strings, and...Read more
Digital Hollywood Hosts Adult Industry Panel
By Marc Star
"Mainstream Hollywood knows full well the adult industry's role in driving new technologies to the consumer marketplace. On the final day of Digital Hollywood, the country's premier entertainment and technology trade conference, the entertainment industry's forward...Read more
Exxxciting News For Alternative Investors
"For years, hedge funds, private equity funds and even venture capitalists
have drooled over the returns that can be had in adult entertainment. Francis
Koenig appears to have hit upon an idea that resonates with
alternative investment professionals...Read more
Library board to vote on porn access
ACLU says restrictions would be unconstitutional
Apr 23, 2008
By Alyssa Farah
Are public library restrictions against pornography access unconstitutional? That's what the Sacramento Public Library Authority Board will decide when it votes on a resolution that could make porn available in its libraries. A meeting is scheduled tomorrow night.
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