A failed business may simply cease operations; with the owners and
investors absorbing the losses (if any); a troubled business on the brink of going under may seek to merge with another company that has the resources to keep it afloat and out of bankruptcy; or a dying business may be bought up by another, stronger company, seeking to breathe new life into it or simply to acquire its assets.
Not exact matches
An investment is appropriate only for
investors who have the capacity to
absorb a
loss of some or all of their investment.
It's foreign
investors and central banks who must
absorb the
loss in their dollar holdings as valued in their own domestic currencies.
If there are
losses on any of the loans, the
losses are
absorbed and the
investor still has a very high likelihood of getting their 10 % return.
To accomplish this, the Geithner plan creates a speculative incentive for private
investors, by effectively offering them a «put option,» whereby taxpayers would
absorb all
losses in excess of 3 - 7 % of the purchase amount.
Investors are protected from some downside risk, however there is a risk of substantial
loss of principal because you agree to
absorb all
losses in excess of the partial cap.
Not only does that approach cast the cybersecurity risk in stark relief, but it also exposes the fact that bitcoin
investors have little choice but to do business with undercapitalized exchanges that may not have the capital buffer to
absorb these
losses the way a traditional and regulated bank or exchange would.