Not exact matches
Because we all love our Aunt Gladyses, entrepreneurs often offer convertible debt holders the opportunity to
swap the debt for
equity at a discount.
During this time we often also see informal kinds of partial debt forgiveness, for example when sovereign borrowers have repurchased their obligations in the secondary market
at steep discounts, often secretly, or exchanged their obligations for other assets
at a discount, for example the famous debt /
equity swaps in several Latin American countries in the 1980s (see footnote 3).
Most
equity swaps require periodic payments or in some cases a one - time payment
at the time of the
swap.
The past several years have featured little more than a gigantic asset
swap, the short description being that massive volumes of government debt have been
swapped by central banks for massive volumes of idle bank reserves, while massive volumes of low - yielding, covenant - lite debt have been issued into the hands of yield - seeking investors, in order to retire massive volumes of corporate
equities at elevated valuations through buybacks.
Futures, forwards and
swaps, for example, are investment contracts between parties to buy, sell or exchange assets like
equities, commodities, currencies or loan terms
at agreed - upon prices.
From the standpoint of homeowners, a debt -
equity swap is equivalent to writing down the mortgage principal, while
at the same time giving the lender an equal and offsetting claim on the future appreciation of the home.
The most profound change to the portfolio is that we can
swap out the old Meritas International
Equity mutual fund (with its 1.96 % MER) for a couple of new sustainable ETFs that give us global exposure
at a much lower cost (0.4 % — 0.45 %).
Varie's Karen Schaupeter, will feature a wide range of independent projects, including works by Spring / Break Art Show director Ambre Kelly
at Equity Gallery's booth, a panel on photographer Stephen Shore's quarterly DOCUMENTUM and a photo booth for visitors to compliment the release of Hana Pesut's self - published book Switcheroo based on her hit blog about clothes -
swapping couples.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother - in - law
at the bank, then execute a debt /
equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows.
The moves appear to be aimed
at increasing the company's chances of raising enough
equity from traditional real estate investors to forgo a large debt - for -
equity swap.