Sentences with phrase «equity industry as»

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Although the name has changed, it's still the same industry once denoted as «leveraged buyouts» — that is, the business of buying companies with a thin slice of nonpublic equity and mountains of debt, in which fund managers grab richly generous (to themselves) fees.

Michael Khouw is a 20 year veteran of the financial services industry with broad experience as a strategist, analyst, portfolio manager and proprietary trader of equities, commodities and equity and index derivatives for both buy - side and sell - side firms.

This is the preferred blockchain of IBM, which has been marshaling clients to try the tech across industries as varied as private equity, banking, government, and healthcare.

While the BCG report has the rosy title of Capitalizing on the New Golden Age in Private Equity, it says the industry faces some serious growing pains as more and more investors keep throwing money at the industry as alternatives (such as hedge funds) have sucked wind.

As a result, risky asset classes such as equities and commodities will be assigned much higher reserve requirements than bonds, which is why some insurance industry players are already dumping equities to hold a greater proportion of bondAs a result, risky asset classes such as equities and commodities will be assigned much higher reserve requirements than bonds, which is why some insurance industry players are already dumping equities to hold a greater proportion of bondas equities and commodities will be assigned much higher reserve requirements than bonds, which is why some insurance industry players are already dumping equities to hold a greater proportion of bonds.

Before she was sworn in as head of the SBA in 2009, Mills was president of the private - equity firm MMP Group, which invested in businesses in the consumer products, food, textiles and industrial components industries.

Jaime Katz, equity analyst at Morningstar, sees 2017 as providing the industry with the ability to increase prices as the number of passenger rises.

And while the industry is seeing some dividend increases, cash is increasingly the currency of choice for acquisitions, as equity multiples have been crushed by global macroeconomic trends.

And remember, finally, that bad earnings news kept rolling in for both Dell and its industry throughout the bidding process, prompting Indigo Equity Research in August 2013, for instance, to call Dell a «sinking ship,» and to label Michael Dell's turnaround plan as «fundamentally flawed.»

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is examining how private equity firms report a key metric of their past performance when they market new funds to investors, as the regulator boosts its scrutiny of the industry, according to people familiar with the matter.

· Deal Trends: Average deal size is up nearly 140 % since 2011, as lenders gravitate to the companies that have an appetite for loans: private equity backed companies and larger private companies seeking growth through industry consolidation, international expansion, or both.

Private - equity acquisitions of retailers have become increasingly rare, as the investment firms worry about increasing headwinds facing the industry and their portfolio companies struggle with the debt burden left behind from leveraged buyouts.

«The best way to think about them is as a private - equity shop operating in the software industry,» says Jeff Mo, a portfolio manager with Calgary's Mawer Investment Management, which has a 12 % stake in the company.

Adjusted Net Income is defined as net income excluding (i) franchise agreement amortization, which is a non-cash expense arising as a result of acquisition accounting that may hinder the comparability of our operating results to our industry peers, (ii) amortization of deferred financing costs and debt issuance discount, a non-cash component of interest expense, and (gains) losses on early extinguishment of debt, which are non-cash charges that vary by the timing, terms and size of debt financing transactions, (iii)(income) loss from equity method investments, net of cash distributions received from equity method investments, (iv) other operating expenses (income), net, and (v) other specifically identified costs associated with non-recurring projects.

After naming long - time fashion industry veteran Paula Schnieder as its new CEO last week, the company is now evaluating a proposed takeover bid, reportedly from the private equity firm Irving Place Capital.

His organization runs one of the most visible and high - profile private equity funds in the world — industry observers put it in the same class as those run by legendary buyout giants Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts and Blackstone.

Last May, SoftBank announced it raised over $ 93 billion for the Vision Fund, the world's largest private equity fund with backers including Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, Apple Inc. and Foxconn Technology Co., formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry.

As with any ratio, this depends on a company's industry; however, it's generally accepted that industrials should maintain a debt - to - equity ratio between 0.5 and 1.5.

OSFI recently recommended reining in home equity lines of credit, known in the industry as HELOCs.

As Chairman of the private equity firm Stone Point Capital, Mr. Friedman brings substantial experience in the financial services and investment management industries to our Board.

Another early morning in Vancouver, BC and a meeting starts with a full house of equity crowdfunding industry participants including entrepreneurs, lawyers, investors, securities regulators, government, tech and finance executives who want to make sure this city keeps its crown as the entrepreneur and tech startup capital of Canada.

While fundamentals look positive for equities in the commodities / energy / metals industries, as they are coming off an extremely poor cycle that has lasted several years, the current rally appears to be overdone by 15 % to 20 %.

The model is both objective, using elements such as volatility of past operating revenues, financial strength, and company cash flows, and subjective, including expected equities market returns, future interest rates, implied industry outlook and forecasted company earnings.

Mr. Chai, a CFA charterholder, joined Fidelity in 1997 as an equity research analyst, and he has managed multiple technology - related sector and industry portfolios since 2003.

Previously, Stephen served as a Software Engineer of Global Equities and Derivatives Division at Deutsche Bank and as a Software Engineer for six years across the finance, telecommunications and electronics industries.

The report focuses on private company growth equity valuation and financing data, as well as the top investors and companies that participated in transactions throughout 2014 in the B2B software industry.

Most often investing capital in young companies in exchange for a small (5 % — 15 %) equity stake, incubators charge low to no up - front cost for utilizing the workspace and the organization's cultivated resources such as mentors and networks of investors in the startup's industry.

As mentioned earlier, energy equities decoupled from physical oil prices and sold off, including a steep decline of nearly 9 % for oilfield services industry equities, a recent trend that is somewhat difficult to fully explain.1

Edisun saw equity crowdfunding on SeedInvest as a way to allow consumers to «help shape the future of the solar industry.

Since then, he has served as a focal point of the budding Equity Crowdfunding industry, co-founding the Crowdfunding Professional Association and serving as a board member of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates.

He believes that the emergence of an international services sector, of money management, hedge funds and private equity will flourish soon as an industry in the UAE and that's where opportunities will thrive.

As one of the original «barbarians at the gate» in the takeover battles of the 1980s, KKR & Co. became an icon of the private equity industry's bare - knuckle approach to business.

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 outlook.

In the larger financial industry, who gets to keep the difference between a historic 8 % return on equities, an «equity - like return», and a historic 4 % return on «risk free» investments, such as government bonds?

The additional factors considered when determining any changes in fair value between the most recent valuation report and the grant dates included, when available, the prices paid in recent transactions involving our equity securities, as well as our operating and financial performance, current industry conditions and the market performance of comparable publicly traded companies.

As the director of private equity for the Kauffman Foundation and a former venture capitalist, Mulcahy has observed the industry closely.

When Rick Rule describes the gold industry as «marginal» he is demonstrating his deep understanding of investor mentality in the equity markets, and how gold mining companies have worked to fit into the role that investors cast for them.

He previously worked as an equity analyst in the hedge fund industry.

-- There are numerous operational equity crowdfunding platforms — do your homework and pay attention to the terms they are suggesting, as well as their industry focus (if any).

Calico Industries completed a going concern sale transaction with Mill Street Ventures of Flowood, MS. Equity Partners HG served as intermediary for the seller.

It is used as a hedge against inflation; safe - haven asset in times of wars and political uncertainty; alternate asset class to equities and fixed - income instruments; near - cash; and metal of choice in a number of industries.

A cyclical bottom was marked as industry patriarch Julian Robertson closed Tiger Management in 2000 — which was the second - largest hedge fund only three years earlier — just months before equities collapsed.

Since 2011, Dara Albright has been helping set the direction of the financial services industry through trendsetting articles, white papers, acclaimed conferences, roadshows and influential webinars that introduce new digital financing techniques and modern alternative asset classes such as equity crowdfunding and p2p notes to the financial ecosystem.

And, as a result of that, you better be paying attention to what's happening here and how these technologies disrupt businesses that you may be currently invested in, either in the equity side or as a potential lender, because I think this is going to have ramifications for a number of different businesses in the industries in the immediate future.

In just over three years, OurCrowd has established itself as a major international force in the equity crowdfunding industry, investing over US$ 320 million from its «crowd» of 16,000 accredited investors in its portfolio of 100 companies and five funds, which span major investment sectors including Mobility and Transportation, Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Digital Health, Agtech, Big Data, and Robotics.

See http://janebryantquinn.com/2010/09/have-an-annuity-with-lifetime-income-guarantees-dont-give-it-up/ I have written negatively about equity - indexed annuities (which the industry likes to call «fixed annuities,» even though they aren't fixed), due to lack of disclosure, hidden fees and, yes, abusive sales, as several lawsuits by attorneys general can attest.

After all, leveraged buyouts are pretty sexy (in a suit - wearing kind of way), private equity enjoys strong historical returns as a sector, and the industry boasts the titillation factor of being famously inaccessible, like Louis Vuitton handbags once were.

Aldo gained over ten years experience dedicated to serving financial services entities (mainly hedge funds and private equity entities) and over four years of diversified experience in other industries and capital markets, both at Metlife as well as from other big four public accounting firms.

They emerged as the industry consolidators, using high levels of gearing to pay mind boggling prices for assets (in 2007, APN was the target of a bid by a private equity consortium that was blocked by a shareholder vote at $ 6.20 per share, a decision which cost them a lot.

As the Trump administration rolls back the greater regulatory scrutiny the for - profit college industry has faced during the last several years, it is private equity that stands to benefit the most, posing continuing dangers to students, taxpayers, and the integrity of the federal financial aid system.