Sentences with phrase «american equity companies»

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Many have put up their own shares or stock of companies they own as collateral for their loans and are increasingly copying the convoluted fund - raising strategies employed by American hedge funds and private equity firms in financing their global expansion drives.

Avon has racked up about $ 1.8 billion in losses and last year sold off its North American business to private equity firm Cerberus, a huge blow for a company founded in 1886 in New York when a door - to - door bookseller found that the perfumes he mixed himself were popular with his customers.

A robust private sector is necessary to create and foster successful companies such as Apple, held in our All American Equity Fund (GBTFX) and Holmes Macro Trends Fund (MEGAX).

No government officials involved other than the initial money going in to the companies for the American taxpayer to then receive their equity stakes.

Gus began his career at D.A. Campbell Company, a boutique research firm specializing in Latin American equities, as an Analyst.

We have two equity strategies: the North American dividend growth strategy, which can potentially invest in any company that trades in North America, and the global tactical ETF [exchange - traded fund] strategy, which uses a combination of exchange - traded funds to provide exposure around the globe.

The fair value of our common stock has been determined in accordance with applicable elements of the practice aid issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Valuation of Privately Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic oCompany Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic ocompany; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic ocompany given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

(I think it's useful for UK investors to be aware of the US perspective, because passive investors are likely to have as much as 50 % of their equity portfolio invested in American companies.)

Despite a drop in fixed indexed annuity sales last year, the president of American Equity Investment Life Insurance Co. said Friday the company has no intention of steering sales away from the independent agent channel.

At the end of 2016, about 60 % of his equity portfolio was invested in five companies — Wells Fargo (WFC), Coca - Cola (KO), IBM (IBM), American Express (AXP) and Apple (AAPL), a position he initiated last year and built up even more recently.

The American - based company already has a capital management firm, and you know, private equity and fund to funds.

While past deviations haven't spelled doom for equities, the impact has rarely been as stark as in the last two months, when American shares lurched to the worst start to a year on record as companies stepped away from the market while reporting earnings.

Title III and Title IV of the JOBS Act permit what is known as «equity crowdfunding», whereby companies can openly advertise their offerings and accept investments from non-accredited investors — the 98 % of Americans who do not meet the definition of an accredited investor.

From 2013 - 2017 she served on the board of American Capital, LTD., a publicly traded private equity and asset management company, supporting their sale to Ares Capital, and on the board of Alcami, a pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing company.

The company's board — and its private equity investor Baird Capital — hired Jennifer Quinlan, who most recently served as North American digital...

American Express also made an equity investment in Lianlian Pay Inc., an overseas company of Lianlian Group.

Starting as a hedge fund investing primarily in publicly traded North American corporate debt offerings and equities, the company began its property and casualty reinsurance business in 2004.

Companies in the benchmark gauge for American equities trade at 10.2 times 2012 forecast earnings, compared with the average in economic contractions since 1957 of 13.7, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

About Brynwood Partners: Founded in 1984 and based in Greenwich, CT, Brynwood Partners is an operationally - focused private equity firm that makes control investments in North American - based lower middle market companies in the consumer sector.

About Brynwood Partners: Brynwood Partners, founded in 1984 and based in Greenwich, CT, is an operationally - focused private equity firm that makes control investments in North American - based lower middle market companies in the consumer sector.

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In 2007, the company was acquired by American Capital which is a very large private equity firm and that was when I was brought in as a CEO to run the company.

Earlier in his career at Capital, as an equity investment analyst, he covered U.S. electrical equipment / appliances, global energy equipment, and oil field services & drilling companies, as well as North American communications & networking equipment companies.

Under normal circumstances, the fund invests at least 80 % of its net assets in equity securities, including common stocks, American Depositary Receipts and Global Depositary Receipts, of foreign companies.

The insurers that are undervalued are equity - sensitive ones: Phoenix Companies [PNX], American Equity Investment -LCB- AEL], Lincoln National [LNC], and ING equity - sensitive ones: Phoenix Companies [PNX], American Equity Investment -LCB- AEL], Lincoln National [LNC], and ING Equity Investment -LCB- AEL], Lincoln National [LNC], and ING [ING].

An American depositary receipt (ADR) is a negotiable U.S. security that generally represents a company's publicly traded equity or debt.

Patel suggests putting 30 % of one's North American portfolio in domestic equity and 70 % in the U.S. «You want the long - term sustainable companies and while you can get that with, say, the Canadian banks, you also want the Googles and the Microsofts of the world,» he says.

American Equity Investment Life Holding Company is engaged in the development and sale of index and fixed rate annuity products.

American depository receipts, which represent shares in an equity that is traded on a foreign exchange, are often traded OTC, because the underlying company does not wish to meet the stringent exchange requirements.

From Business: Founded in 1990 in Jonesboro, GA LoanMax Title Loans is one of America's most respected companies helping hardworking Americans use the equity in their vehicle to...

Horizons HEP will invest primarily in a portfolio of equity and equity related securities of North American listed companies that are primarily exposed to gold mining and exploration and that, as at the Constituent Reset Date, are amongst the largest and most liquid issuers in their sector.

If such a market ever develops, four companies whose equities Third Avenue owns — Ambac, American Capital Access, MBIA, and Radian — ought to benefit.

Horizons AlphaPro Dividend (HAL) is an actively managed ETF that «invests primarily in equity securities of major North American companies with above average dividend yields.»

An American company will typically record its equity (capital, income, and expenses) in USD, while a Canadian company will do so in CAD.

During his 33 - year investment career, Mr. Luchsinger has served as Chief Investment Officer for Great American Reserve Insurance Company, where he was responsible for the management of corporate, mortgage, and private placement fixed income, as well as equity assets.

Profit of companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, the benchmark for American equity, is growing faster than shares, and represents a yield of 6.53 percent compared with 4.65 percent for 10 - year U.S. Treasury notes.

Gluskin said through the advice of Adonia Lugo, equity initiative manager at the League of American Bicyclists, the company will drill down further in its next survey to see exactly what «family biking» might consist of.

Using definitions and guidelines established by the American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil's 2014 worldwide environmental expenditures for all such preventative and remediation steps, including ExxonMobil's share of equity company expenditures, were $ 6.2 billion, of which $ 3.5 billion were included in expenses with the remainder in capital expenditures.

As Renewable Energy Focus pointed out: Venture equity funding of clean energy reached $ 2.5 bn in Europe, whereas North America saw $ 6.8 bn venture equity funding in clean energy... The average size of investment rounds for an average company rose 103 % to $ 65 million per company in North American, whereas clean energy companies in Europe saw investment rounds fall 4 % to $ 27m per company.

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Significant matters / transactions include: Advised Xstrata South Africa (Proprietary) Limited on its offer to purchase Lonmin plc's entire issued share capital, # 5 billion Advised Telkom SA Limited on its unbundling of a 35 % stake in Vodacom Group (Proprietary) Limited, R35 billion Advised Edgars Consolidated Stores Limited on its acquisition by Bain Capital, R25, 5 billion Advised The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) on the introduction of BEE equity participation in Sasol Limited and their arranging financing therefore, R25, 4 billion Advised FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Nedbank Limited (acting through its Nedbank Capital division) as lenders to Richards Bay Titanium (Proprietary) Limited and Richards Bay Mining (Proprietary) Limited, R19 billion Advised Citibank N.A. on a bridge loan granted to Turquoise Moon Trading 427 (Proprietary) Limited by Citibank N.A. and JP Morgan Chase, R10 billion Advised British American Tobacco plc on its secondary listing on the JSE, R550 billion Advised Pioneer Foods Limited on its listing on the JSE Securities Exchange, R6 billion Advised the South African National Roads Agency Limited in respect of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project involving the construction and upgrade of the Gauteng freeway and the procurement of an open road tolling system, R44 billion Advised Absa Bank Limited (acting though its Absa Capital division), FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Vunani Capital (as co-lead arrangers) and the South Africa National Roads Agency Limited (as issuer) on the establishment of its South African Guaranteed Domestic Medium Term Note Programme and the subsequent issue of notes thereunder, R32 billion Advised Shoprite Checkers (Proprietary) Limited on the proposed Brait Private Equity private equity buy - out (this did not proceed), R12 billion Advised Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited and various shareholders on the acquisition by Capitalworks Private Equity SP GP (Proprietary) Limited and Old Mutual Life Assurance Company South Africa Limited of a 20 % equity stake in Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited from various shareholders, R511 million Clients include: Multinationals, listed companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and Goveequity participation in Sasol Limited and their arranging financing therefore, R25, 4 billion Advised FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Nedbank Limited (acting through its Nedbank Capital division) as lenders to Richards Bay Titanium (Proprietary) Limited and Richards Bay Mining (Proprietary) Limited, R19 billion Advised Citibank N.A. on a bridge loan granted to Turquoise Moon Trading 427 (Proprietary) Limited by Citibank N.A. and JP Morgan Chase, R10 billion Advised British American Tobacco plc on its secondary listing on the JSE, R550 billion Advised Pioneer Foods Limited on its listing on the JSE Securities Exchange, R6 billion Advised the South African National Roads Agency Limited in respect of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project involving the construction and upgrade of the Gauteng freeway and the procurement of an open road tolling system, R44 billion Advised Absa Bank Limited (acting though its Absa Capital division), FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Vunani Capital (as co-lead arrangers) and the South Africa National Roads Agency Limited (as issuer) on the establishment of its South African Guaranteed Domestic Medium Term Note Programme and the subsequent issue of notes thereunder, R32 billion Advised Shoprite Checkers (Proprietary) Limited on the proposed Brait Private Equity private equity buy - out (this did not proceed), R12 billion Advised Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited and various shareholders on the acquisition by Capitalworks Private Equity SP GP (Proprietary) Limited and Old Mutual Life Assurance Company South Africa Limited of a 20 % equity stake in Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited from various shareholders, R511 million Clients include: Multinationals, listed companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and GoveEquity private equity buy - out (this did not proceed), R12 billion Advised Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited and various shareholders on the acquisition by Capitalworks Private Equity SP GP (Proprietary) Limited and Old Mutual Life Assurance Company South Africa Limited of a 20 % equity stake in Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited from various shareholders, R511 million Clients include: Multinationals, listed companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and Goveequity buy - out (this did not proceed), R12 billion Advised Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited and various shareholders on the acquisition by Capitalworks Private Equity SP GP (Proprietary) Limited and Old Mutual Life Assurance Company South Africa Limited of a 20 % equity stake in Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited from various shareholders, R511 million Clients include: Multinationals, listed companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and GoveEquity SP GP (Proprietary) Limited and Old Mutual Life Assurance Company South Africa Limited of a 20 % equity stake in Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited from various shareholders, R511 million Clients include: Multinationals, listed companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and Goveequity stake in Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited from various shareholders, R511 million Clients include: Multinationals, listed companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and Government

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