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The plans were first reported by The Wall Street Journal. Pioneer shares rose about 2% Thursday.</p><p><blockquote>这家总部位于加利福尼亚州尔湾的金融科技公司周四表示，将与Pioneer MergerCorp.PACX1.64%合并，Pioneer MergerCorp.PACX1.64%是一家隶属于对冲基金Falcon Edge Capital和Patriot Global Management的特殊目的收购公司。《华尔街日报》首先报道了这些计划。先锋股价周四上涨约 2%。</blockquote></p><p> Acornsautomatically invests small contributions from usersinto baskets of stocks and bonds. It counts more than 4 million subscribers, most of whom pay $1 a month for the service, though Acorns also offers $3-a-month and $5-a-month options for additional features such as bank accounts or retirement plans. As of May, Acorns had $4.74 billion in assets under management, according to a recent regulatory filing.</p><p><blockquote>Acornsa 会自动将用户的少量捐款投资到一篮子股票和债券中。它拥有超过 400 万订户，其中大多数人每月支付 1 美元的服务费用，不过 Acorns 还提供每月 3 美元和每月 5 美元的附加功能选项，例如银行账户或退休计划。根据最近的一份监管文件，截至 5 月份，Acorns 管理着 47.4 亿美元的资产。</blockquote></p><p> As part of the transaction, Pioneer would contribute about $400 million in cash, with another $165 million coming from a related private placement involving funds managed byBlackRockInc.,BLK-0.03%Wellington Management Co. and other investors.</p><p><blockquote>作为交易的一部分，Pioneer 将出资约 4 亿美元现金，另外 1.65 亿美元来自相关私募，涉及 BlackRockInc.、BLK-0.03% Wellington Management Co. 和其他投资者管理的基金。</blockquote></p><p> Special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, like Pioneer are corporate shells that raise money from investors and go hunting for a private company interested in taking both the shell’s cash and its stock listing as an alternative to an initial public offering. SPACs have raised more than $100 billion in 2021, according to data provider SPAC Research. But share prices for many SPACs and the companies they have taken publichave tumbled in recent weeks.</p><p><blockquote>像 Pioneer 这样的特殊目的收购公司（SPAC）是空壳公司，它们从投资者那里筹集资金，然后寻找一家有兴趣将空壳公司的现金和股票上市作为首次公开募股的替代方案的私营公司。根据数据提供商 SPAC Research 的数据，SPAC 在 2021 年筹集了超过 1000 亿美元。但最近几周，许多 SPAC 及其上市公司的股价暴跌。</blockquote></p><p> SPACs have become a popular outlet for financial-tech startups, withbanking startup Social Finance Inc.,real-estate platform Better Holdco Inc.andtrading app eToro Group Ltd.all agreeing to multibillion-dollar deals with SPACs in recent months.</p><p><blockquote>SPAC 已成为金融科技初创公司的热门渠道，近几个月来，银行初创公司 Social Finance Inc.、房地产平台 Better Holdco Inc. 和交易应用 eToro Group Ltd. 都同意与 SPAC 达成数十亿美元的交易。</blockquote></p><p> The SPAC fad has also drawn the attention of regulators. The Securities and Exchange Commission is weighing whether to introduce new rules or guidance on SPACs with the aim of safeguarding individual investors,Chairman Gary Gensler told lawmakers this week.</p><p><blockquote>SPAC热潮也引起了监管机构的关注。美国证券交易委员会主席加里·詹斯勒 (Gary Gensler) 本周告诉立法者， 该委员会正在权衡是否对 SPAC 引入新的规则或指导， 以保护个人投资者。</blockquote></p><p> Individual investors are expected to play a sizable role in Acorns’s merger with Pioneer. Acorns Chief Executive Noah Kerner said in an interview he planned to contribute 10% of his personal stake in the company to fund a program that gives shares to some Acorns customers. Pioneer’s sponsor plans to do the same.</p><p><blockquote>个人投资者预计将在 Acorns 与 Pioneer 的合并中发挥重要作用。Acorns 首席执行官诺亚·克纳 (Noah Kerner) 在接受采访时表示，他计划出资 10% 的个人股份，资助一项向 Acorns 部分客户发放股票的计划。先锋的赞助商也计划这样做。</blockquote></p><p> Existing investors in Acorns include companies such asPayPal HoldingsInc.and Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal as well as celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.</p><p><blockquote>Acorns 的现有投资者包括 PayPal HoldingsInc. 和康卡斯特公司旗下的 NBC Universal 等公司，以及詹妮弗-洛佩兹（Jennifer Lopez）和道恩-强森（Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson）等名人。</blockquote></p><p> Acorns projected that it would generate $126 million in revenue this year and $309 million in 2023, up from $71 million in 2020. The company also forecast that its user base would exceed 8 million subscribers by 2023.</p><p><blockquote>Acorns 预计今年将产生 1.26 亿美元的收入，2023 年将产生 3.09 亿美元的收入，高于 2020 年的 7100 万美元。该公司还预测，到2023年，其用户群将超过800万。</blockquote></p><p> Even hitting that target would make Acorns much smaller than fellow investing startup Robinhood Markets Inc., which had about 20 million users at the end of 2020,the Journal previously reported.</p><p><blockquote>《华尔街日报》此前报道称，即使达到这一目标，Acorns 的规模也会比投资初创公司 Robinhood Markets Inc. 小得多，后者在 2020 年底拥有约 2000 万用户。</blockquote></p><p> Unlike Robinhood, Acorns currently doesn’t allow users to buy or sell individual stocks. Mr. Kerner said Acorns guided users to build diversified holdings for the long term instead of making frequent trades, but the company is also planning to introduce an option for users to customize up to 10% of their portfolios with individual stocks of their choice.</p><p><blockquote>与 Robinhood 不同，Acorns 目前不允许用户买卖个股。Kerner 先生表示，Acorns 引导用户长期建立多元化持股，而不是频繁交易，但该公司还计划推出一项选项，让用户可以用自己选择的个股定制最多 10% 的投资组合。</blockquote></p><p> “Acorns will be on the right side of history,” Mr. Kerner said. “We are not a grow-at-all-costs company.”</p><p><blockquote>“克纳先生说：”橡子将站在历史正确的一边。“我们不是一家不惜一切代价发展的公司。”</blockquote></p><p></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Fintech Startup Acorns to Go Public in $2 Billion SPAC Deal<blockquote>金融科技初创公司将以 20 亿美元的 SPAC 交易上市</blockquote></title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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The plans were first reported by The Wall Street Journal. Pioneer shares rose about 2% Thursday.</p><p><blockquote>这家总部位于加利福尼亚州尔湾的金融科技公司周四表示，将与Pioneer MergerCorp.PACX1.64%合并，Pioneer MergerCorp.PACX1.64%是一家隶属于对冲基金Falcon Edge Capital和Patriot Global Management的特殊目的收购公司。《华尔街日报》首先报道了这些计划。先锋股价周四上涨约 2%。</blockquote></p><p> Acornsautomatically invests small contributions from usersinto baskets of stocks and bonds. It counts more than 4 million subscribers, most of whom pay $1 a month for the service, though Acorns also offers $3-a-month and $5-a-month options for additional features such as bank accounts or retirement plans. As of May, Acorns had $4.74 billion in assets under management, according to a recent regulatory filing.</p><p><blockquote>Acornsa 会自动将用户的少量捐款投资到一篮子股票和债券中。它拥有超过 400 万订户，其中大多数人每月支付 1 美元的服务费用，不过 Acorns 还提供每月 3 美元和每月 5 美元的附加功能选项，例如银行账户或退休计划。根据最近的一份监管文件，截至 5 月份，Acorns 管理着 47.4 亿美元的资产。</blockquote></p><p> As part of the transaction, Pioneer would contribute about $400 million in cash, with another $165 million coming from a related private placement involving funds managed byBlackRockInc.,BLK-0.03%Wellington Management Co. and other investors.</p><p><blockquote>作为交易的一部分，Pioneer 将出资约 4 亿美元现金，另外 1.65 亿美元来自相关私募，涉及 BlackRockInc.、BLK-0.03% Wellington Management Co. 和其他投资者管理的基金。</blockquote></p><p> Special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, like Pioneer are corporate shells that raise money from investors and go hunting for a private company interested in taking both the shell’s cash and its stock listing as an alternative to an initial public offering. SPACs have raised more than $100 billion in 2021, according to data provider SPAC Research. But share prices for many SPACs and the companies they have taken publichave tumbled in recent weeks.</p><p><blockquote>像 Pioneer 这样的特殊目的收购公司（SPAC）是空壳公司，它们从投资者那里筹集资金，然后寻找一家有兴趣将空壳公司的现金和股票上市作为首次公开募股的替代方案的私营公司。根据数据提供商 SPAC Research 的数据，SPAC 在 2021 年筹集了超过 1000 亿美元。但最近几周，许多 SPAC 及其上市公司的股价暴跌。</blockquote></p><p> SPACs have become a popular outlet for financial-tech startups, withbanking startup Social Finance Inc.,real-estate platform Better Holdco Inc.andtrading app eToro Group Ltd.all agreeing to multibillion-dollar deals with SPACs in recent months.</p><p><blockquote>SPAC 已成为金融科技初创公司的热门渠道，近几个月来，银行初创公司 Social Finance Inc.、房地产平台 Better Holdco Inc. 和交易应用 eToro Group Ltd. 都同意与 SPAC 达成数十亿美元的交易。</blockquote></p><p> The SPAC fad has also drawn the attention of regulators. The Securities and Exchange Commission is weighing whether to introduce new rules or guidance on SPACs with the aim of safeguarding individual investors,Chairman Gary Gensler told lawmakers this week.</p><p><blockquote>SPAC热潮也引起了监管机构的关注。美国证券交易委员会主席加里·詹斯勒 (Gary Gensler) 本周告诉立法者， 该委员会正在权衡是否对 SPAC 引入新的规则或指导， 以保护个人投资者。</blockquote></p><p> Individual investors are expected to play a sizable role in Acorns’s merger with Pioneer. Acorns Chief Executive Noah Kerner said in an interview he planned to contribute 10% of his personal stake in the company to fund a program that gives shares to some Acorns customers. Pioneer’s sponsor plans to do the same.</p><p><blockquote>个人投资者预计将在 Acorns 与 Pioneer 的合并中发挥重要作用。Acorns 首席执行官诺亚·克纳 (Noah Kerner) 在接受采访时表示，他计划出资 10% 的个人股份，资助一项向 Acorns 部分客户发放股票的计划。先锋的赞助商也计划这样做。</blockquote></p><p> Existing investors in Acorns include companies such asPayPal HoldingsInc.and Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal as well as celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.</p><p><blockquote>Acorns 的现有投资者包括 PayPal HoldingsInc. 和康卡斯特公司旗下的 NBC Universal 等公司，以及詹妮弗-洛佩兹（Jennifer Lopez）和道恩-强森（Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson）等名人。</blockquote></p><p> Acorns projected that it would generate $126 million in revenue this year and $309 million in 2023, up from $71 million in 2020. The company also forecast that its user base would exceed 8 million subscribers by 2023.</p><p><blockquote>Acorns 预计今年将产生 1.26 亿美元的收入，2023 年将产生 3.09 亿美元的收入，高于 2020 年的 7100 万美元。该公司还预测，到2023年，其用户群将超过800万。</blockquote></p><p> Even hitting that target would make Acorns much smaller than fellow investing startup Robinhood Markets Inc., which had about 20 million users at the end of 2020,the Journal previously reported.</p><p><blockquote>《华尔街日报》此前报道称，即使达到这一目标，Acorns 的规模也会比投资初创公司 Robinhood Markets Inc. 小得多，后者在 2020 年底拥有约 2000 万用户。</blockquote></p><p> Unlike Robinhood, Acorns currently doesn’t allow users to buy or sell individual stocks. Mr. Kerner said Acorns guided users to build diversified holdings for the long term instead of making frequent trades, but the company is also planning to introduce an option for users to customize up to 10% of their portfolios with individual stocks of their choice.</p><p><blockquote>与 Robinhood 不同，Acorns 目前不允许用户买卖个股。Kerner 先生表示，Acorns 引导用户长期建立多元化持股，而不是频繁交易，但该公司还计划推出一项选项，让用户可以用自己选择的个股定制最多 10% 的投资组合。</blockquote></p><p> “Acorns will be on the right side of history,” Mr. Kerner said. “We are not a grow-at-all-costs company.”</p><p><blockquote>“克纳先生说：”橡子将站在历史正确的一边。“我们不是一家不惜一切代价发展的公司。”</blockquote></p><p></p>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n<p> 来源：<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/fintech-startup-acorns-to-go-public-in-2-billion-spac-deal-11622114700?mod=markets_lead_pos11\">The Wall Street Journal</a></p>\n<p>为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化</p>\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/fintech-startup-acorns-to-go-public-in-2-billion-spac-deal-11622114700?mod=markets_lead_pos11","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1188024086","content_text":"Combination with Pioneer Merger Corp., related private placement to bring Acorns more than $450 million.\n\nAcorns CEO Noah Kerner said he planned to contribute 10% of his personal stake in the company to fund a program that gives shares to some customers.PHOTO:PATRICK STRATTNER FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL\nAcorns Grow Inc. plans to go public through a merger with a blank-check company in a deal that values the digital savings and investing app at about $2.2 billion.\nThe Irvine, Calif.-based financial-tech company said Thursday that it would combine withPioneer MergerCorp.PACX1.64%, a special-purpose acquisition company affiliated with the hedge funds Falcon Edge Capital and Patriot Global Management. The plans were first reported by The Wall Street Journal. Pioneer shares rose about 2% Thursday.\nAcornsautomatically invests small contributions from usersinto baskets of stocks and bonds. It counts more than 4 million subscribers, most of whom pay $1 a month for the service, though Acorns also offers $3-a-month and $5-a-month options for additional features such as bank accounts or retirement plans. As of May, Acorns had $4.74 billion in assets under management, according to a recent regulatory filing.\nAs part of the transaction, Pioneer would contribute about $400 million in cash, with another $165 million coming from a related private placement involving funds managed byBlackRockInc.,BLK-0.03%Wellington Management Co. and other investors.\nSpecial-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, like Pioneer are corporate shells that raise money from investors and go hunting for a private company interested in taking both the shell’s cash and its stock listing as an alternative to an initial public offering. SPACs have raised more than $100 billion in 2021, according to data provider SPAC Research. But share prices for many SPACs and the companies they have taken publichave tumbled in recent weeks.\nSPACs have become a popular outlet for financial-tech startups, withbanking startup Social Finance Inc.,real-estate platform Better Holdco Inc.andtrading app eToro Group Ltd.all agreeing to multibillion-dollar deals with SPACs in recent months.\nThe SPAC fad has also drawn the attention of regulators. The Securities and Exchange Commission is weighing whether to introduce new rules or guidance on SPACs with the aim of safeguarding individual investors,Chairman Gary Gensler told lawmakers this week.\nIndividual investors are expected to play a sizable role in Acorns’s merger with Pioneer. Acorns Chief Executive Noah Kerner said in an interview he planned to contribute 10% of his personal stake in the company to fund a program that gives shares to some Acorns customers. Pioneer’s sponsor plans to do the same.\nExisting investors in Acorns include companies such asPayPal HoldingsInc.and Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal as well as celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.\nAcorns projected that it would generate $126 million in revenue this year and $309 million in 2023, up from $71 million in 2020. The company also forecast that its user base would exceed 8 million subscribers by 2023.\nEven hitting that target would make Acorns much smaller than fellow investing startup Robinhood Markets Inc., which had about 20 million users at the end of 2020,the Journal previously reported.\nUnlike Robinhood, Acorns currently doesn’t allow users to buy or sell individual stocks. Mr. Kerner said Acorns guided users to build diversified holdings for the long term instead of making frequent trades, but the company is also planning to introduce an option for users to customize up to 10% of their portfolios with individual stocks of their choice.\n“Acorns will be on the right side of history,” Mr. Kerner said. “We are not a grow-at-all-costs company.”","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":3058,"commentLimit":10,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"symbols":[],"verified":2,"subType":0,"readableState":1,"langContent":"EN","currentLanguage":"EN","warmUpFlag":false,"orderFlag":false,"shareable":true,"causeOfNotShareable":"","featuresForAnalytics":[],"commentAndTweetFlag":false,"andRepostAutoSelectedFlag":false,"upFlag":false,"length":13,"subscribersOnly":false,"subscribersOnlyAccessible":false,"xxTargetLangEnum":"ORIG"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"isTiger":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"url":"/m/post/135221589"}
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