However, considering current metrics, I consider the short term return / attraction of a buyback is fairly even balanced against the potentially higher returns on offer from a (gradual) investment of their cash
into distressed assets.
Not exact matches
The entire community will benefit from the transformation of a
distressed property
into a handsome neighborhood
asset.
The bank is being split up
into a new Irish bank (Permanent tsb bank — EUR 14.2 bio loan book), a stand - alone UK operation (CHL — EUR 7.1 bio loan book), and a non-core
distressed assets unit (AMU — EUR 12.5 bio loan book).
I bought it as a cheap
distressed assets play, but I suspect my gains actually came from income investors, who are now rushing
into the stock.
Add to that the emotional strain of losing your most valuable
asset and the time and effort that has gone
into building your equity in your home and you can see why it is ranked as one of the most
distressing events that can happen in a person's life.
Realty shares took it on the chin so hard during the crash late 2008
into 2009 that investors savvy enough to buy
distressed assets at the bottom saw triple digit gains not likely to be seen again until the next crash (see top ETF performers in global and sector ETFs from the 2009 bottom).
Now we do a lot of M&A and
distressed M&A — attractive
assets for clients who want to go
into Brazil.
Lucy also advises on
distressed business sales including pre-packs and has experience in the recovery of
assets into insolvency estates by liquidators and trustees in bankruptcy and advises in relation to recovery procedures for lenders.
For example, perverse incentives to push viable businesses
into solvency may be at work due to increased margins and fees, while lenders engineer «
distress» in businesses by restricting credit or revaluing
assets and then accelerate the decline by imposing dramatic changes to lending terms.
Most of what investors are buying falls
into two diverse pools — Class A core
assets in major markets or severely
distressed properties.
«Auctions will help put
distressed properties back
into the market faster and get things back to normal, just as they did in the Resolution Trust Corp. era that followed the savings - and - loan crisis,» says David Gilmore, managing director of Sperry Van Ness Accelerated Marketing, an Atlanta - based venture that specializes in
asset disposition through auctions.
«Canadian investors looking to expand
into the U.S. market or who are already in the U.S. have been able to take advantage of some great growth opportunities and purchase
assets at a
distressed price.»