Seedrs makes money by taking roughly 6 per cent commission on funds raised, and then a share of any increase in value when the company is sold — similar to the «carry»
earned by private equity firms.
Not exact matches
«Beginning in November 2014 and continuing until his arrest in March 2016, CASPERSEN engaged in a Ponzi - like scheme to defraud investors, including his close friends, family members, and college classmates,
by falsely claiming that their funds would be used to make secured loans to
private equity firms and would thereby
earn an annual rate of return of 15 to 20 percent.
A plan to increase taxes on carried interest, the money
earned by private -
equity firms and hedge funds.
In describing their historical performance,
private investment counsel
firms will usually show composite returns
earned by their clients in an investment category like Canadian
equity compared to a relevant benchmark (in this case, the S&P / TSX Composite Index).