That said, KKR still has a business to run, and the private
equity company seems optimistic about how things are going.
Not exact matches
While $ 3 million may
seem like chump change for a
company that's currently worth nearly $ 52 billion, Benioff's willingness to put his — or rather, Salesforce's — money where his mouth is champions the fight for pay
equity.
The fact that raising more money means giving up
equity in the
company to outside investors didn't
seem to bother Fulop.
Even if transaction fees are a minor factor in the financial troubles of overly indebted
companies, private -
equity firms often
seem reluctant to disclose them.
Stung by foreclosure losses, the
companies seemed content to sit on the sidelines, raising their requirements to the point where many loan agents I spoke to wouldn't even consider putting a loan through Fannie or Freddie with less than 20 %
equity.
Given the Fund's modus operandi though, where few common stocks are acquired if the
company does not enjoy an extremely strong position, it
seems to me that the Fund remains far less likely in its common stock portfolio to be victimized by accounting frauds than will be conventional
equity analysts.
Another factor that others
seem to ignore is the importance for
companies to have access to capital markets, both credit markets and
equity markets.
This
seems to be the case for
companies which, by the nature of their operations, consume cash in order to create wealth and are required to raise outside
equity capital periodically, e.g., integrated electric utilities and certain financial
companies.
It
seems unrealistic to suppose that, on average, the
companies making up the S&P 500 would have such attractive access to capital markets that such a large amount of new
equity capital could be raised at those prices.
Size, momentum, volatility and value have all been shown to be partly responsible for explaining
equity returns over the long run but they do not
seem to fully capture the returns of some
companies.
In reality, with EIIB appearing to now give up on being an asset manager, the
company seems to be focusing on in - house private
equity investment.
As the fossil fuel divestment movement grows increasingly mainstream — even BlackRock recently partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Council to launch an «
equity global index series that will exclude
companies linked to exploration, ownership or extraction of carbon - based fossil fuel reserves» — the smart long - term investment money would
seem to be on divestment.
Although that definition may
seem overly complicated and wildly expansive, it is actually a simpler version of what we usually find in employment agreements,
equity awards, employee handbooks, and
company policies.
«It
seems that they [life insurance
companies, pension funds and conduits] view multifamily mortgages as a safe haven right now compared with corporate bonds,
equities and other types of commercial real estate they could be investing in,» says Holmes.