Sentences with phrase «as equity investors»

This post is designed to correct a few errors, and explain how we as equity investors might profit from a potential disaster here.

«As equity investors reassess the Fed policy outlook, this forces a reassessment of equity valuations as well.»

Just as equity investors worry about a «double - dip» in US stocks, several housing markets are already beginning to resemble this troublesome pattern of peaks and troughs.

and keep in touch with them, and as equity investors they do have rights.

By taking on more risk as an equity investor, one can economically participate in a company's value creation activities providing an enhanced return profile relative to a company's debt offerings.

When I moved to Catalyst as an equity investor eight years ago, it became clear that growth stage investing satisfied my conservative lending mentality while providing amazing upside potential for the equity.

As an equity investor in a crowdfunding deal, you can expect distributions.

Potential for higher returns — As an equity investor, you're purchasing shares in the business, not just loaning money to fund the deal.

As an equity investor, you have no say in management.

As an equity investor you may be interested in the long - term capital appreciation, earnings growth, dividends or future takeover prospects of a company and this determines how you analyze your prospective investment.

Not exact matches

[Because the private equity funds are contained within a target - date fund], the individual investor will only be able to do due diligence on the types of funds that are permitted, as the actual fund investments will change over time.

«However, I would like it on the record — as an expert who has thought about these issues nearly every working hour over the last four years — that I'm convinced that without the SPV and 12g fixes, retail investors will be heavily disadvantaged as compared to accredited investors and equity crowdfunding will ultimately be seen as a failure.

Founders Fund led the round and was joined by investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Pantera Capital, as well as existing investors Craft Ventures, Vy Capital, and Valor Equity Partners.

It's unrealistic to expect that an unsophisticated investor picking startup projects on the Internet will fare any better, and downright misleading to suggest that equity crowd funding allows the masses to participate in the next Google or Facebook, as proponents have done, Isenberg argues.

Equities as an asset class are not hugely in favour right now, with Goldman Sachs downgrading them to Neutral in May and advising investors to overweight cash in their portfolios.

So that means investors who use a target - date fund as the basis of their 401 (k) portfolio could end up with 5 percent or 10 percent of their 401 (k) holdings in private equity.

With geopolitical tensions in places like Ukraine, emerging market selloffs in countries like Turkey and U.S. stocks» choppy start to 2014, more investors are seeking out hard assets as an opportunity to diversify a portfolio, hedge against inflation and pursue a solid return in something unrelated to the equity markets.

European equities open lower Thursday as investors closely monitor trade talks between the U.S. and China.

Crowdinvesting platforms are a recent development, and an interesting option for funding that, to some extent, lets you call the shots by spreading the equity over a larger number of investors (as opposed to securing the full investment from a handful of investors or a VC firm).

Of course, for creditors, the real hero of the story is actually a private equity investor, who for months was just known as the Mt. Gox «mystery creditor.»

Chinese equities saw heavy losses Thursday following new liquidity rules in the country and as global investors opted for safe - haven.

«Many investors point to the rally in US equities since August as evidence that a tax cut is already priced in,» said Parker.

European equities finished Wednesday's trading session slightly lower as investors continued to keep a close eye on political events in the region.

European equities finished Thursday relatively flat, as investors digested stock news, amid weak trading volumes across the world.

«Investors continue to see Japan equities as undervalued relative to other markets and say they want to overweight Japan for the next 12 months,» he added.

European equities finished in positive territory on Thursday, as investors digested the latest corporate earnings and data.

Equities in Europe traded just above the flatline as investors reacted to earnings and waited for a report from the Federal Reserve.

European equities finished Wednesday's session slightly lower as investors continued to keep a close eye on political events in the region.

The dollar, measured against a basket of currencies, has now given up more than half of the gains it notched up this month when investors rushed into the greenback as equity markets suffered a violent sell - off.

European equities finished in positive territory on Thursday, as investors digested the latest corporate earnings and data releases.

European equities closed higher Wednesday afternoon as investors focused on further earnings reports and data releases.

European equities finished Tuesday in the red, as investors waded through the latest corporate news, while keeping an eye on a Fed testimony.

European equities finished Thursday's session in the black as investors digested the latest earnings and data news.

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.

European equities finished Tuesday's session slightly higher, as investors appeared to shrug off concerns of a potential trade war and uncertainty following Italy's election result.

Most of the debt — about 85 % — will be converted into controlling equity stakes for such investors as Apollo Global Management, Babson Capital Management, and Guggenheim Investment Management.

Just as most investors have to buy a REIT listed on a stock market to get exposure to expensive real estate assets, so too must they buy a publicly listed private equity company to get access to private businesses.

But there is a way for ordinary investors to get into the private equity game, as Watsa's Fairfax Financial demonstrated in the BlackBerry saga.

That is because banks, private - equity firms and institutional investors have continued to pour money into the sector even as oil companies slashed billions of dollars in spending from their budgets and laid off more than 100,000 workers.

Mittal's FundersClub, founded in 2012, isn't to be confused with AngelList or other equity crowdfunding platforms, instead functioning as an online venture capital firm where high - quality deals are sourced for over 17,000 accredited investors.

That ruled out venture capitalists, as well as most other equity investors.

Michael Wilson, chief U.S. equity strategist at the firm, said in a note Monday that the S&P 500 could reach his «bull case» target of 3,000 «by the middle of the year as investors bid up P / Es toward 18.5 x on one last surge of euphoria before settling back down by year end.»

As coverage of European and American financial woes have the masses running from equities, he says, «long - term investors who are billionaires tell me they are having an easier time today than ever before in their lifetimes because nobody is a long - term investor anymore.»

Venture capital investors almost always insist on investing through a «preferred» equity instrument, typically referred to as preferred stock.

GIC invests in growth and defensive assets such as emerging and developed market equities, real estate, private equity and inflation - linked bonds and is known to be a patient investor.

As a result, more entrepreneurs and businesses have access to outside capital than ever before and for the first time, investors can efficiently build diversified portfolios of private equity and debt investments.

Bharti Airtel separately said it plans to engage with potential investors to evaluate a stake sale in the combined mobile masts entity, which will have an equity value of 965 billion rupees ($ 14.5 billion), sending the carrier's stock up as much as 5.2 percent.

Tom Barrack, the private - equity investor overseeing Trump's inauguration, has described this year's event as more low - key, less of a «circus - like celebration.»

«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

Although the rules and requirements weren't yet finalized as of this writing, it looks like entrepreneurs looking to crowdfund via the equity model will be required to make at least the following information available to the SEC, to the platform through which they raise funds, and to potential investors: