Sentences with phrase «at the equity funds»

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One could say that private equity funds have, at least in their thirst for assets and their run - of - the - mill returns, begun to resemble grubby, conventional mutual funds.

Stengel is joined on stage by Doug Ellenoff, a corporate and securities attorney with a specialty in business transactions and corporate financing who has been actively involved in working with federal government agencies as the rules are being rewritten, and Pelli Wang (on the right end of the couch), the venture director at SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform and early - stage VC fund.

Equity crowd funding is worth trying as just one tool to help foster startups, at the very least to keep pace with the U.S. and give Canadian entrepreneurs more reason to stay here.

«People have given up on them,» says Phil Davidson, portfolio manager at the $ 13 billion, value - focused American Century Equity Income Fund.

Dan has spent the better part of the last 20 years as a proprietary equity & options trader at hedge funds (SAC, Exis & Cheyne Capital) and within the equity derivatives group of Merrill Lynch.

«Global fund managers see the profit outlook in Japan as favorable amid a strong earnings season,» Shusuke Yamada, chief Japan FX / equity strategist at BoAML, said in a statement.

Prosper, another online lender, has been looking to raise a new round of funding in exchange for equity at a price that would slash its market value by more than 70 %, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.

«You've been able to find pockets of strength even this year,» says Bruce Cooper, who heads all equity teams at TD Asset Management and manages a global dividend fund.

Jet previously raised $ 225 million at a $ 600 million valuation to take on Amazon — the most equity funding ever raised in the first 12 months by a US commerce company.

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.

Bell of GeoDynamics points out that if a corporate incubator agrees to give you funding to help you further your idea, it comes at a cost, whether it is equity, control or something else.

Avista Capital Partners has formed a new company to fund a portion of the equity required to design and build three 50,000 deadweight ton product carriers, which Seacor Holdings (NYSE: CKH) has contracted to build at General Dynamic's National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. shipyard in San Diego.

«It's a type of surgical, temporary capital,» Mark Stoner a partner at private equity fund Bayou City Energy LP, said in an interview.

It's building insurance companies; it's building pension funds; it's building whole structures that we need for long - term investments,» said Mark Tinker, who is Head of Framlington Equities Asia at AXA Investment Managers.

Stéphane Léveillé, a senior director of private equity at the pension fund, joined Fix Auto's board of directors in November.

One of MSD's first investments was in an unknown, tech - focused private equity firm called Silver Lake, which at the time was raising its first fund.

The corporate watchdog has begun civil penalty proceedings against Padbury Mining and two of its directors over statements made last year claiming the company had lined up $ 6 billion in equity to fund construction of a port and rail network at Oakajee north of Geraldton.

Caspersen, a 39 - year - old former managing director at PJT Partners» private - equity arm, Park Hill Group, was arrested in March and accused of defrauding a hedge - fund - affiliated charity and an employee of the same hedge fund.

Scilla Huang Sun, portfolio manager of the GAM luxury brands equity fund at GAM Investments, discusses the high - end watch market.

A private equity fund looks at the ERP issue similar to the No Marketing Spend — it's an opportunity to invest in the business, so better information is available to managers (and the private equity fund).

«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 AccoFunds, 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 AccoFunds; 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 Accofunds 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 Accofunds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

«The Foundation was lied to by Andrew Caspersen, a managing director at investment bank PJT Partners, regarding a potential investment related to the publicly - announced restructuring of a private equity fund,» the foundation said in a statement.

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:

«When entrepreneurs lose cash flow, they give up leverage and negotiating power and risk losing too much ownership in a desperate attempt to raise funding,» says Wunderlich, who is also a partner at private - equity group DCA Capital Partners.

At issue is how private equity firms report how they calculate average net returns in past funds in their marketing materials, the sources said.

Jet previously raised $ 225 million at a $ 600 million valuation to take on Amazon — the most equity funding ever raised by a US commerce company in its first 12 months.

Less than three weeks after announcing it had secured $ US6.47 billion ($ 6.89 billion) in equity funding to construct a port and rail network at Oakajee, junior explorer Padbury Mining says the deal is now dead.

Lewis, fund's chief investment officer, spent nine years at Citigroup as a director of the bank's global special situations group, a $ 5 billion prop - trading group that specialized in distressed debt, high - yield bonds, and value equity.

SoftBank expects to invest over the next five years at least $ 25 billion in the $ 100 billion tech fund, which would be one of the world's largest private equity investors and a potential kingpin in the technology industry.

Virgin Group founder Richard Branson is getting into the private equity game, becoming a star partner at a new fund managed by London - based Metric Capital.

On the other hand, his tax plan makes at least a vague reference to eliminating a loophole that benefits private equity and hedge fund managers.

«In the early years, for one fund family, you'll find more «risky» equity exposure to growth - oriented stocks, but toward the later years, it's more value - oriented equity exposure,» said Aaron Pottichen, president of retirement services at CLS Partners in Austin, Texas.

Fund manager investments in Amazon.com Inc and Netflix Inc, both of which are up more than 35 percent for the year to date, helped boost the returns of large - cap funds, noted Savita Subramanian, equity and quant strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

According to the Times, a BlackRock report «has calculated that if the financial transaction tax were set at 0.1 % per trade, an investor putting $ 10,000 in its global equity fund would lose more than $ 2,300 in expected returns over a 10 - year period.

Between 1980 and 2005, U.S. buyout funds, one of the main categories of private equity, heavily outperformed the S&P 500, according to research from Chris Higson at the London Business School, with about 60 % of the funds he studied beating that benchmark index.

They set up their first private - equity fund several years ago with $ 70 million in investment capital; they just raised another $ 100 million, to support a second pool aimed at their particular investment niche.

Prior to this role he was an editor at Yahoo Finance, worked as an equity analyst at hedge funds and as an investment analyst at a fund of funds.

«Most limited partners have always hated transaction fees,» said Susan Long McAndrews, a partner at $ 24 billion fund of private equity funds Pantheon.

She said several of her private equity funds clients have stopped charging the fees and are waiting for guidance from the SEC before deciding whether to resume collecting them at all.

«if the financial transaction tax were set at 0.1 percent per trade, an investor putting $ 10,000 in its global equity fund would lose more than $ 2,300 in expected returns over a 10 - year period.

Previously, she worked on improving educational equity at organizations such as NewSchools Venture Fund, where she raised funds to support early - stage education entrepreneurs.

Since forgoing college at 19, Ms. Holmes has secured millions of dollars in funding for her new venture, including $ 45 million in private equity funding in 2010.

At least 80 percent of the fund's assets are invested in equity securities, including common stock, preferred stock, convertible securities, rights and warrants and depository receipts of companies located in the China region.

James Austin, investment director at BGF, said that as equity providers, BGF could be part of a hybrid solution for growing companies, where the business received equity funding while listing.

Company is raising $ 1 billion in equity to fund the purchase of Blue Buffalo Pet Products; the market does not appear to be crazy about the deal at this point.

If somebody gives you money under a convertible debt note at a $ 2.5 m valuation and another person funds you with convertible debt at $ 5m valuation (high resolution financing) and your equity round finally closes at a $ 10 million valuation... what technically happens?

For example, the company closed a $ 305 million cash equity transaction, created a fund with Citi to finance $ 347 million in solar projects in September, and at the end of October, announced a new fund with Credit Suisse to finance an additional $ 300 + million in projects.

Leonard is a former portfolio manager and principal at Brecken Capital LLC, a hedge fund focused on domestic equities.

Prior to that, he was an Associate at Adams Street Partners, a secondary private equity group within a $ 20 billion fund of funds; and an Analyst in the M&A group at JPMorgan Securities.

Previously, he worked at Kendall Investments, a Cambridge, Massachusetts - based private equity fund - of - funds, where he evaluated, analyzed and monitored private equity portfolio investments.