Prudential could have obtained construction financing
with less equity, but used the higher percentage as a form of investment self - discipline, Fifield said.
And
with less equity available and credit still tight, households are finding it more difficult to get financing for projects.
In addition, home owners
with less equity in their homes will have a more difficult time refinancing their mortgage.
Borrowers
with less equity are statistically more likely to default on the loan repayment.
Borrowers
with less equity in their homes are seen as bigger risks, meaning that they'll pay higher interest rates and insurance costs.
Not exact matches
In 2015,
less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along
with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's
equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.
Tech companies
with no profits (or even much of a business plan) soared to extreme valuations that were justified, in part, by the belief that future profits would be made faster and that
equities were
less risky than in the past.
These could include securing funding (Angel Round), hiring your own first developer from the initial revenues or it also becomes easier to convince someone to join your team
with a greater
equity and
lesser upfront money.
We are the group
with less startup
equity and are more likely to run out of funds sooner than our employed counterparts.
Some of the effects were measurable — boards
with more women are linked to a 53 % higher return on
equity, according to one study, and their companies go bankrupt
less frequently.
«We anticipate that
with earlier stage companies, we will receive more
equity and
less cash and
with later stage companies, more cash and
less equity,» he said.
They also showed agreement, albeit to a
lesser extent,
with Flaherty's alternate proposal of an embedded capital tax, where financial institutions could convert debt to
equity to aid the financial institution in the event of a crisis instead of using taxpayer dollars.
These include currency - hedged ETFs, triple - levered ETFs based on commodities, unconstrained bond funds
with short positions betting against U.S. Treasurys, private
equity funds, emerging market debt instruments, historically
less - liquid bank loan funds, and all manner of actively managed strategies packaged in supposedly easy to buy and sell wrappers.
Another reason is that women tend to be more conservative in running their businesses, so you see generally stronger balance sheets
with more personal
equity and
less debt than in businesses owned by men.
Inc.: NFWBO's study showed that women were
less likely to give up
equity for funding compared
with men.
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.
Sales pitches are broadly similar: farmland is presented as performing equally well or better than
equities and other asset classes,
with less volatility.
Mortgage insurance is often required when buying a home
with a down payment of under 20 % or when refinancing
with a current
equity of
less than 20 %.
The changes to the Canadian securities laws if adopted would allow the general public to invest in
equity crowdfunding online, and companies to offer small amounts of
equity with less disclosure thus driving the cost of raising capital lower and widening participation at the same time.
My point was and is that the
equity risk premium is bundled up closely
with the nature of the security itself (i.e., being a publicly traded, relatively liquid investment asset called an
equity, that has a very specific bundle of rights and risks attached to it), which has very different characteristics than the many other financial assets available in the economy (many of which have bundles of risk that are perceived as «riskier», and many of which are perceived as «
less risky»).
Equity loan: These are also
less expensive than getting a cash - out refinance — often
with lenders offering a free appraisal — and come
with a fixed interest rate, unlike HELOCs.
Its strategy is focused on undervalued mid - and large - cap
equity securities,
with a significant portion of its assets in foreign securities and, to a
lesser extent, distressed securities and merger arbitrage.
With the new law, as long as you raise
less than $ 1.4 million in an
equity crowdfunding round, you only have to file a short document of 3 or 4 pages.
They argue that banks should fund themselves
with more
equity and
less debt — or, to put it bluntly, that banks should risk more of their own money, and
less of everyone else's.
A currency - hedged take on German
equities, the iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Germany ETF (HEWG D - 42), helps tell that tale,
with gains of 15.4 percent in
less than two months.
Had you funded the home purchase
with more
equity — a down payment of $ 20,000, say — your return would be much
less, only 20 %.
If you think we are heading into a bear market, losing
less with dividend stocks is a good strategy if you want to stay allocated in
equities.
You own more
equity and owe the bank
less, but you're also more vulnerable if the market crashes and your real estate leverage is
less than it would be if you went
with the standard 20 % down payment.
With less than a half - hour to go before the start of trading stateside, the
equity futures are indicating a flat opening for the U.S
equity market.
Entrepreneurs might have
less access to potential capital,
with little ability to look at home
equity since the housing market collapsed during the recession.
With less than 30 %
equity in that home, the rental income can not be included at all — not even a percentage of it.
Greenlight argues that GM actively undermined its plan in discussions
with rating agencies, including modifying the term sheet provided by Greenlight to make the dividend shares appear more like preferred
equity with a fixed payment obligation and
less like common
equity with no fixed payment obligation, as Greenlight suggests it intended.
With less than an hour to go before the start of the new trading week stateside, the
equity futures are presaging a higher opening for the U.S. stock market.
The Spiral financing has strong credit metrics, including a loan - to - cost ratio of
less than 50 %,
with over $ 1.9 billion of
equity to be invested in the $ 3.6 billion project.
The slowdown is most pronounced for funds
with U.S. and Europe
equity exposure, and
less so for other non-U.S. categories, including emerging markets (EM) and EAFE.
High Risk — Income (H / INC) Medium to higher risk
equities of companies that are structured
with a focus on providing a meaningful dividend but may face
less predictable earnings (or losses), more leveraged balance sheets, rapidly changing market dynamics, financial and competitive issues, higher price volatility (beta), and potential risk of principal.
In the same vein, it's believed that growth
equity firms will have to work on more proprietary - sourced deals where they have
less competition and are dealing more directly
with management.
Recent research in the high tech entrepreneurship world finds companies that are most inclusive of women in top governing positions traditionally outperform other companies
with less diversity, demonstrating 35 % higher return on
equity and 34 % better total returns.
High Risk — Speculation (H / SPEC) High risk
equities of companies
with a short or unprofitable operating history, limited or
less predictable revenues, very high risk associated
with success, significant financial or legal issues, or a substantial risk / loss of principal.
The problem
with such a risk profile is that it is very similar to an investment in
equities, where investors accept much
less security for the upside of an ownership stake in the business.
With Google becoming Alphabet, the company's internet business and other ventures remain the same under a capital structure of more
equity and
less debt.
I prefer companies
with less than 0.5 debt /
equity ratios, or at least
less than 1.0 debt /
equity ratios, but it will vary to a certain extent in some industries.
In contrast, the professional managers that operate downstream of individual investor flows, and that manage the various investment vehicles that provide those investors
with equity exposure, probably exert
less control over the market's absolute valuation.
By purchasing these companies after a price decline, we find we are able to control risk in the portfolio as these investments often have
less downside while offering a decent potential return.The U.S.
Equity Fund seeks to invest in companies
with a lower Price to Book Ratio, lower Price to Earnings Ratio and higher Dividend Yield than the S&P 500 index.
But a quarter of U.S. real estate already is in negative
equity — worth
less than the mortgages attached to it — and the property market is still shrinking, so banks are not lending except
with public Federal Housing Administration guarantees to cover whatever losses they may suffer.
FPA's Investment Approach He mentioned that his goal is to «provide
equity rates of return
with less risk than the market.»
Companies
with solid balance sheets, that have better credit ratings and
less debt - to -
equity than peers, can weather economic downturns, make opportunistic acquisitions, waste
less of their profit on debt interest, and easily absorb unexpected problems and keep moving forward.
It legalizes
equity - based crowdfunding, helps companies go public faster by expanding «mini-IPOs,» and allows entrepreneurs to raise capital
with less red tape.
As a result, merger investments can potentially provide investors
equity - like returns
with less volatility usually associated
with stocks, according to data from Bloomberg and Hedge Fund Research Inc..
One such project is a «worker
equity» program that attempts, as one of its goals, to eradicate from employers» minds the common negative stereotypes of older employees (they are stubborn, lazy, have
less energy, do not adapt to new technologies) Another unit of the organizations the Interreligious Liaison Office, is also involved
with the non-material aspects of aging.