Sentences with phrase «debt investments by»

Lead counsel to JDS Energy and Mining Group in connection with a number of equity and debt investments by U.S. private equity firms for a variety of projects

He has been the principal contact on numerous equity and debt investments by Finance Wales following Hugh James's appointment to the Welsh Government corporate finance panel.

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In April a 40 % stake in its parent, Glencore Agriculture Products, was quietly repatriated by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for US$ 2.5 billion as Glencore shed assets to pay down debt.

Corporate investment - banking fees were down 4 % from the year - ago quarter because of lower advisory and equity issuance fees but partly offset by higher debt - issuance fees, according to the firm.

By that, I mean real estate — both debt and equity — but also everything ranging from agricultural investment, infrastructure debt, and other real assets that are generating both income and capital gains.

Education provider Navitas has increased its debt facilities by $ 125 million to pave the way for future investments and initiatives.

PREPA has been hampered by years of under - investment, frequent turnover in management and inefficient collections that forced it to go deeply into debt.

Toys «R» Us is saddled with debt from a $ 6.6 - billion buyout in 2005 by KKR, Bain Capital and real estate investment trust Vornado Realty Trust.

Ratings agency Moody's reported Monday that the rolls of «potential fallen angels,» or issuers with investment - grade debt currently in danger of becoming junk, swelled by 17 in the third quarter, while no companies fell into the opposite category, called «potential rising stars.»

Of course, rock - bottom rates and a strong Canadian dollar, he added, are the opposite of what the Canadian economy needs right now in order to kick its current addiction to household debt and condos and switch to a more sustainable growth model fuelled by exports and business investment.

The deal, which was backed by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, avoided a collapse of the venerable investment bank suffering under the weight of bad mortgage debt.

The entire power grid is outdated and infrastructure upgrades long abandoned, the result of an island government deeply in debt which was enabled by zealous Wall Street investment houses.

His investment philosophy is rooted in risk management and value creation, and he has purchased and executed more than $ 650 million of commercial real estate and debt collateralized by commercial real estate.

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.

A $ 5M equity investment in the company will purchase a 30 % ownership interest, or a mix of debt secured by the real property and equity will work as well.

But much of this investment was enabled by growing debt, both government and corporate, rather than profits.

A 1 percentage point reduction in tax rates increases investment by 4.7 percent of installed capital, increases payouts by 0.3 percent of sales, and decreases debt by 5.3 percent of total assets.

However, Barclays overall performance was buoyed by a strong performance in its credit cards business and investment banking division, which advises on M&A transactions and equity and debt underwriting.

If Chinese investment is on the whole productive, and the value of assets is growing as fast as the value of debt, then we can assume that current growth rates are not driven mainly by excessive debt and that Chinese growth is sustainable without the need to bring down investment growth.

The Fund seeks both current income and capital appreciation by investing primarily in below investment grade debt and equity with the ability to hedge risk.

By definition any country with both high investment and a current account surplus must have a high savings rate, but I don't understand why having high savings explains China's high debt levels.

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In addition, while the Barclays Aggregate Index is dominated by Treasuries, it also includes agency mortgage securities as well as investment grade debt.

Spain's high unemployment, excessive debt, and stagnant growth stem indirectly from policies implemented by Germany that forced down the GDP share of German wages while also reducing domestic investment.

The fund invests primarily in investment grade debt securities, but may invest up to 10 % of its total assets in high yield securities rated B or higher by Moody's.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating this new kind of investment vehicle that mirrors strategies used by hedge funds: investing in private debt or by shorting stocks.

The indicated solution is to limit the proliferation of debt by borrowing less, for instance, and to channel savings more into equities and tangible investment than into debt - claims on economic output.

«If you assume that for many years China has been misallocating investment (by which I simply mean that the resulting increase in productivity generated by the investment was less than the correctly calculated debt - servicing cost)...» How about not «assuming» and offer proof?

A slowing Chinese economy might be good or bad for the world, depending on how it affects the relationship between domestic savings and domestic investment, and this itself depends on whether Beijing drives the rebalancing process in an orderly way or is forced into a disorderly rebalancing by excess debt.

If Country X is a developing country with insufficient domestic savings to fund domestic investment, net capital exports are probably caused either by flight capital or by the net repayment of external debt.

The debts created by businesses, consumers and national economies cutting back their long - term direct investment leaves these entities even less able to carry their mounting debt burden.

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In short, the debt taken on by the new company will loom over every operating decision Tim's makes, thrusting the coffee chain into uncharted territory where it must answer to a cutthroat private investment firm in faraway Brazil that never saw a cost it couldn't synergize.

I could focus on cash flow and get rid of some smaller student debt, or focus on net worth by throwing more money at my investments.

For preferred equity and debt investments, EquityMultiple receives a servicing fee in the form of a «spread» between the interest rate being paid to them by the sponsor or originating lender and that being paid to investors.

If Japan tries to increase domestic savings to fund the debt, for example by limiting wage increases, or by taxing consumption, both of which they have proposed, these measures may well cause domestic investment to fall.

Star Mountain is a specialized asset management firm focused exclusively on the U.S. lower middle - market by investing debt and equity directly into established operating companies, making strategic investments into fund managers and purchasing secondary fund positions.

This is why investors continue to be shocked by sudden debt problems and investment losses in companies that have been regularly beating estimates of operating earnings by a penny.

Whether or not they do, if domestic savings rise faster than domestic investment, which is the only way to increase the domestic savings pool available to fund Japanese debt, then by definition the current account surplus must rise.

Speaking of what he called a $ 400 billion «euroglut» of excess European savings over already - paltry European investment, Saravelos argued that the European export of savings was structural, driven by a (rational) refusal by European investors to invest in a stagnant Europe with rising debt and rising unemployment, and so the euroglut could not be undermined by a rising euro.

The speed with which China's GDP growth slows in 2013 will tell us a lot about how determined Beijing is to rebalance the economy in such a way that growth is driven more by higher household income and consumption and less by investment funded by rising government and government - related debt.

It is wishful thinking to imagine that the most extreme economic, debt and investment bubble in history was corrected by a mild economic downturn, a market decline that leaves stocks at 21 times peak earnings (higher than at the 1929 and 1987 peaks), and just a few large - scale defaults from a corporate debt position which continues to claim a record share of operating earnings to finance.

China's public - sector investment, in other words, is value destroying, and because it is funded by debt, additional investment causes China's real debt servicing costs to rise faster than its real debt servicing capacity.

When market conditions favor wider diversification in the view of Hussman Strategic Advisors, Inc., the Fund's investment manager, the Fund may invest up to 30 % of its net assets in securities outside of the U.S. fixed - income market, such as utility and other energy - related stocks, precious metals and mining stocks, shares of real estate investment trusts («REITs»), shares of exchange - traded funds («ETFs») and other similar instruments, and foreign government debt securities, including debt issued by governments of emerging market countries.

U.S. investment: There would be no change in overall U.S. investment and an increase in U.S. savings, the latter driven either by lower unemployment or a reduction in consumer debt.

It is worth reading to get a sense of how low non-performing loan numbers in the Chinese banking system are nonetheless compatible with a surge in bad investments funded by debt.

Crowdfunding (alternately investment crowdfunding, securities crowdfunding, crowdinvesting, crowd financing, debt crowdfunding, crowdlending or equity crowdfunding) describes the collective effort of individuals who network and pool their resources, usually via the Internet, to support efforts initiated by other people or organizations.

At the time the former seemed a more dangerous risk than the latter — although even then massive overinvestment was China's true vulnerability — but I think by now there is a rapidly developing consensus that investment, and the unsustainable concomitant increase in debt, is China's biggest problem.

The bank posted $ 1.6 billion in revenues from investment banking, down 7 % «driven by lower debt and equity underwriting fees, which were partially offset by higher advisory fees.»

Although the largesse is restricted to blue - chip eurozone companies such as food producer Danone or telecoms giant Telefónica, ECB - injected liquidity has spilled into the rest of the market, paring average interest rates on investment - grade corporate debt by some 30 basis points to an even 1 %, Deloitte estimates.