Not exact matches
For one,
investors are going to have to
get comfortable taking on more risk in their
equity portfolios by buying stocks at higher valuations.
He states that the collective strength areas of Finzy's in - house team coupled with the startup's approach to business
got the
investors interested in pumping
equity.
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 do the benefits of owning a private company
get passed on to retail
investors who own publicly listed private
equity 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.
The Boeckhs urge
investors to
get ready to rebalance toward
equities on the major dips they envision occuring until inaction gives way to a vigorous and coordinated policy response.
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Investors can come with demands (
equity, board seats, etc.), so a smart thing to do is consider what you need the money for (new product, new markets, «supercharging» growth, etc.) and balance what you will
get, with the trade - offs you'll have to make.
The
investors would
get this token which usually doesn't give
equity in the company, but instead promises returns in the future or has some kind of use on the platform that is being built.
By selling the bonds to Monaco,
investors were trying to
get around the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which says, «The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or
equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.»
It has become essentially impossible for
investors to
get diversified exposure to the U.S. economy, and to real economic value creation, without tapping private
equity.
Because
equity investors — that tend to
get what they ask for — increasingly are saying enough is enough, and a lot of releveraging activity was front loaded, and with an expected more benign rate hiking cycle there is less urgency to pull the trigger on deals, we continue to think that corporate balance sheets (ex-energy, ex-materials) will improve in 4Q and into 2016.
As a founder of a relatively new venture having managed to draw
equity from Kumar Vembu, Gupta advises that it is the ability of models to solve problems that are the key to
get investors interested.
But, as Macrae is the first to admit, «No matter how many times you start a business, you almost always
get to a point where it needs an infusion of
equity capital from outside
investors.»
Instead, structure the investment as convertible debt: a loan that
gets swapped for
equity in the next big round of financing, says David Cohen, a venture capital
investor and CEO of TechStars, a Boulder, Colorado - based angel fund.
For example, if you opt for
equity crowdfunding you can
get in trouble for taking money from non-accredited
investors, so what is the platform doing to ensure it is only connecting companies with legitimately vetted backers?
«I
got hundreds of emails from startup
investors to the large private
equity firms.»
A product of Venture Hacks, this is the platform for new companies to
get equity from reliable
investors; it also features templates to minimize attorney fees.
Investors have
gotten their pullback, but it doesn't look as though they are using the opportunity to buy
equities.
Remember that when you're giving away
equity, you're
getting married to your
investors.
And for the Chinese private
equity groups, raising funds in dollars instead of yuan enables them to target overseas investments without
getting entangled in Beijing's capital controls, while international
investors often wish to avoid taking local currency risk.
Multiple
investors may also purchase Q's that comprise part of a single down payment, meaning that, from the
get - go, not just one, but several
investors could own
equity in a property that is purchased with the help of PRIMARQ.
The result in the early 1980s when debt - leveraged buyouts really gained momentum was that financial
investors were able to obtain twice as high a return (at a 50 % corporate income tax rate) by debt financing as they could
get by
equity financing.
As part of a long - term strategy, EM
equity funds offer
investors the potential for greater returns than they might
get if they invest exclusively in developed markets.
Listed
equities investors will also
get a close look at a piece of the action next week, when US - based Coronado Coal fronts fund managers in a non-deal roadshow.
We were successful in tapping our own internal networks so that we could
get to the point where we could prove what we were doing and attract outside
equity investors.
In 2002, fully 56 percent of those who owned stocks or stock funds had purchased their first shares sometime after 1990, while 30 percent of all
equity investors had
gotten their feet wet only after 1995.
Equity markets had a tough time
getting out of their own way this week as headlines coming out of Washington DC continued to keep
investors...
The laws of competition and competitive strategy are now very much at work within the private
equity industry, and we can see the best funds putting their real endeavors behind that, not only so they've
got a good story to tell at [the] time of next fundraising, but also to deliver the great returns that their
investors are expecting.
The young
investors who are looking to enter the market would likely be cheered by
investors, who have long argued that millennials should
get over what some have described as an aversion to
equities — a byproduct of their coming of age and starting their careers during the worst of the financial crisis — and take advantage of a long - term, buy - and - hold strategy that allows them to benefit from compound interest.
As the VIX increases,
investors get nervous, pushing them to sell
equities in favour of bonds and the Canadian dollar in favour of the greenback.
Investors panic, ordering their 401k plans to dump the
equity mutual funds, forcing professional money managers to
get rid of stocks they know are cheap.
Preferred
Equity (
investor gets X %, principal takes the rest) seems to fit the crowdfunding model better, where there is less connection and therefore less trust and less info sharing between the LPs and the GPs.
So would - be retail bond
investors must exercise more care than is necessary with
equity trading in order to avoid
getting ripped off.
However, things are likely to change as global stock markets
get overheated and central banks start selling the assets they purchased earlier, leading
investors to shift focus away from
equities to other asset classes, including gold.
Currency hedging is expensive and difficult for private
investors, so I wouldn't worry too much about it provided you've
got a long time horizon and you're spreading your
equity buying across the world.
The reality is that when
equity valuations
get on the high side, nervous
investors tend to hold on as long as they can, waiting for reasons to sell to show up.
But if the stock market continues its retreat and enters a 10 percent correction phase, as many Wall Street forecasters predict,
investors will be looking for return, at least until they
get brave enough to start buying the
equity dip.
Can we expect that
investors who up to now religiously refused to sin will
get back into
equities as they undrape?
Of course, as a mostly passive
investor, I prefer to not
get too much into actively and tactically timing the
equity share.
You
get to control exactly how much
equity you allow your
investors to obtain and retain control of your company.
With a small cap it is hard to
get the attention of wall street
investors so
equity growth will be limited but on the positive side it translates into a low beta.
If an
investor had
got nervous in 1996 and sold down his
equities, he'd have missed out on much of that great bull market.
With the
equity portion likely to grow over time and the bond portion comparatively static, this means such
investors become much more exposed to
equities as they
get older.
Our return expectations across most asset classes are at post-crisis lows, but we believe
investors are
getting compensated for taking on risk in
equities, selected credit / emerging markets (EM) and alternatives.
Equity crowdfunding has taken off as an investment option in the last years following the passage of the JOBS Act, allowing average
investors to
get a stake in early - stage startups.
When
equity markets foray into not - so - cheap territory,
investors get nervous and edgy, ready to jump ship at the first alarm bell, justified or not.
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To illustrate, suppose that
investors get wildly bullish on U.S.
equities, and try to allocate their entire portfolios into the space, all at the same time.
It will most importantly provide the perfect platform needed by corporate and private
equity investors, hedge funds, investment bankers, lenders and asset managers to meet face - to - face and
get deals done.
The stock market is not the same thing as the economy, but this gives you an idea about how much room some of these markets may have to run in the years ahead if they can
get their act together and make their
equity markets more appealing to foreign or domestic
investors.