A Ponzi scheme is a form of investment fraud that
uses new investor money to pay absurdly high rates to newer investors.
Not exact matches
A traditional venture - capital firm raises
money primarily from institutional
investors and high - net - worth individuals, while corporate venture capital
uses cash reserves from a parent company to fund
new endeavors.
Authorities said Platinum operated «like a Ponzi scheme» by
using new money to fund redemptions by earlier
investors, which were referred to internally as «Hail Mary time.»
Instead, he simply
used the
new money he was bringing in to buy out earlier
investors.
As part of an
investor protection measure in the JOBS Act, companies
using crowdfunding will still be required to raise the
money through regulated broker - dealers, such as CircleUp, or through crowdfunding portals, a
new regulatory category at the SEC.
* Tech - savvy farmers
using social media * Agribusiness, food safety activists pour
money into campaigns * Whistleblowers see
new laws aimed at them By P.J. Huffstutter and Lisa Baertlein April 16 (Reuters)- Standing before a crowd of McDonald's Corp shareholders at its headquarters last spring, an unlikely
investor prepared for battle.
Public
money is chiefly
used to help large multinational banks, but not to help small
investors getting off ground or researchers inventing
new technologies.
While my last book «Seeking Arrangement» focused entirely on the Sugar Daddy and Sugar Baby lifestyle, in this
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In reality, Koretz was running a Ponzi scheme:
using the
money from
new investors to pay off earlier
investors.
This is the stupidest thing about RBC — yes, I understand they want to «bundle» all their services but forcing
investors to open up
new accounts to
use their discount brokerage when most of the other discount brokerages offer excellent electronic
money movement options is just bad business.
Don't invest in market
using borrowed
money, especially if you are a
new investor.
These bonds are bought by
investors on the open market for less than their face value, and the company
uses the cash it raises for whatever purpose it wants, before paying off the bondholders at term's end (usually by paying each bond at face value
using money from a
new package of bonds, in effect «rolling over» the debt to the next cycle, similar to you carrying a balance on your credit card).
The
new rules disallow «advantage» transactions that allows
investors to move
money between RRSP and taxable accounts
using a thinly - traded stock that has a wide bid - ask spread.
A type of fraud that
uses money from
new investors to make interest payments to earlier
investors.
• There's usually net inflows of
new money always flowing into good bond mutual funds (just from economic growth and
new investors entering the markets), and this
money is
used to buy
new bonds with the higher interest rates.
The fraudster simply takes
new investors»
money for the fraudster's own personal
use, often
using some of it to pay off existing
investors who may be growing suspicious.
We also, in Paris we launched something I think will turn out to be very important for us — a C40 finance facility, which is largely funded by the German government at the moment, and is intended to fill that gap where we've got lots of cities with really well technically designed projects, low carbon projects, whether that be cycle routes, or a
new low carbon building developments, but where the city just doesn't have the capacity to turn those into really bankable projects — something that a private
investor, or indeed a multilateral funding agency, feels comfortable about putting the
money into, because it's just not what they're
used to doing.
«
Investors should do all they can to challenge this misguided
use of shareholders»
money, which will make global warming worse, and instead call for a
new approach that is based on the reality of climate change.»
Bringing
new clean energy technologies to commercial scale for the first time can require hundreds of millions, even billions, of dollars, and private
investors are either unable to fund projects that require this much capital, as is the case with many venture capitalists, or are unwilling to lend
money to projects that
use first - of - a-kind technology not fully proven at commercial scale, as is the case with most banks.
Initial coin offerings are
used to raise
money for
new cryptocurrency ventures, and they give
investors a chance to purchase a set number of coins at the initial, or base, price.
«The SEC's Office of
Investor Education and Advocacy is warning
investors about potential scams involving stock of companies claiming to be related to, or asserting they are engaging in, Initial Coin Offerings (or ICOs),» the agency wrote, adding that «Fraudsters often try to
use the lure of
new and emerging technologies to convince potential victims to invest their
money in scams.»
Being required to put more
money down and being able to
use less potential rental income for qualifying purposes will displace many
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investors (who currently only make up around four per cent of all mortgage consumers in Canada).
I like them for the knowledge, but they can confuse
new investors because they glamorize maxing out loan opportunities, maxing equity, and
using hard
money and creative financing to grow as fast as possible.
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Taken to an extreme, this is actually more or less the definition of a Ponzi scheme (a scheme in which a continual influx of
new money is
used to subsidize earlier
investors).