Introduction Over the years, Private Equity (PE) funds have become major players in the global market. PE-funds are known for their tactical investments, high returns, and smart tax planning. They are a relatively new phenomenon in the financial market and their numbers are growing rapidly; According to Preqin (2016), there were 6628 PE-funds in 2015 against just 24 in 1980. More and more investors are putting their trust in PE, as this market has proven its high returns over and over again, while other financial markets have failed to return. In June 2016 $2.49 Trillion of PE-assets are under management, this is a new all-time high. The first half of 2016 has already been a success for investors in PE. There was a total of $128 billion …show more content…
Second, business and strategic decisions that a PE-fund makes will be discussed. Following, section 4 outlines different tax aspects of the funds, while section 5 discusses ethical aspects around PE-funds. 1. Private Equity Funds This section gives a global overview of what PE-funds are and how they are created amongst other general information that is needed to understand PE-funds in the context of this paper. 1.1 What is a Private Equity Fund? According to Berk and Demarzo (2014) a PE-fund invests pooled-equity into existing private or public firms with the intention of taking them private. The main practice of a PE-fund is to invest in a firm and in a short timespan increase its value before exiting (selling) to make profit (Barber & Goold, 2007). In a PE-fund there are a few key players: the fund, the fund manager and the investors. The fund is the entity that invests in target companies. Fund managers are the individual/entities that run the fund, they make the strategic decisions/plans of the PE-fund (Marples, 2014). Investors invest in the fund with the goal of increasing the value of their initial input, they can be private or institutional (Fevurly, …show more content…
The buying-to-sell strategy makes management focus go to value creation in a short time which is what the funds essentially profit from. This can have its drawbacks, they will be discussed in section 5. Buying-to-sell is a simple and easy strategy for companies to implement. However, not many public companies use this strategy as it is in a company’s nature to buy-to-keep. The nature of companies can be changed, but this takes time. An advantage that PE-funds have over other entities is that they have expertise in buying, transforming, and selling, as for other companies this is not their core business. (Barber and Goold,
A comparison of the PE Ratio for these three companies shows a great deal about how investors view Royal Gold Inc. in comparison to competitors in the industry. All three companies have had ups and downs over the past three years yet Royal Gold has remained fairly solid. The prospect of strong growth appears to nearly double the PE Ratio from 2004 to 2005 for Royal Gold and Newmont Mining Corp.
...ial for these private equity funds to move from not meeting expectations to meeting expectations and consequently exceeding expectations, but that is highly contingent on the future macroeconomic landscape and future credit markets. With a heavy concentration on mid-size buyout funds, private equity managers have a heavy dependence on the ability to utilize leverage and refinance their underlying investments. The 2009 financial crisis created portfolio drag in mid-sized buyout funds that can be seen throughout this portfolio. This is due to a number of capital intense and over-leveraged investments that are, or have been, in default in the last few years. If macroeconomic conditions and credit markets continue to develop we could see underlying positions improve. This would allow for the transition from not meeting expectations to potentially exceeding expectations.
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The first being that signifying confidence in the company’s future can be accomplished through buybacks. However, the writer reveals that when this occurs the value of stock only decreases. The next reason given is that when employees exercise stock options, the dilution of earnings per share has to be offset by buybacks. Yet, the author depicts here that the company must wait on their incentives to work instead of using this method. The last reason provided is that the company needs to return its unneeded cash to shareholders, because the company is now matured, and does not foresee any future profitable investment opportunities. The author immediately disregards this reason by explaining this has not been the case since qualified dividends and tax-rates on long term capital gains became the
Now that there are goals in place, it is now time to look at the many investment strategies that will help accomplish the set goals. One of these strategies is known as the buy-and hold-strategy. This strategy involves the investor to purchase a stock and hold on to this stock for many years in hopes that over time the stock price will increase. This method doesn’t require much timing of the market therefore is much less stressful making it a very desirable method. The opposite strategy is known as short term trading. This requires much attention to be paid to the “Price” and “Volume” of the stock, also knowing whether the stock is on an upward or downward trend. Another common strategy is known as short selling. This involves borrowing a stock from a broker at a given price and selling it, in hopes that the stock price will drop from the original price.
The real estate closing is also referred to as settlement. The two terms are interchangeable, though "closing" is the more common usage. This is the final step in a real estate purchase transaction. It's when property ownership is transferred from the seller to the buyer. In the world of real estate, the closing phase is the “magical” phase. It is final step in a real estate purchase transaction. Many people study real estate in hopes to becoming a real estate investor. Real estate investors look forward to the closing transactions due to the potential financial gains after purchasing or selling a property. Four terms every potential real estate investor must know are closing costs, deed, mortgage, and mortgagee.
For Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) things aren’t looking good. The stock has lost more than 57% of its market capitalization so far this year. This drop in the stock’s market capitalization is due to a variety of factors such as suspension of preferred dividend, recent debt exchange and continued slump in the oil price.
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But divesture of three out of four divisions leads to a very small portfolio which leads to chances of high risks as well. The process of restructuring and forming a better portfolio would provide the firm with a lot many opportunities including exploring newer and more compatible product lines and segments, thus increasing its opportunities to earn better revenues with efficient management.
The country’s highly tuned legal regulatory framework has allowed it become Europe’s leading investment fund center. Due to this those that would like to market their investment funds on a global scale have turned to Luxembourg as the country focuses on the administration and cross-border distribution of investment funds. The types of investments that can be made include banking services (that focus in international loans and capital markets activity, financial engineering, structured products, private banking and financial services for large and medium-sized businesses), renminibi businesses, investment vehicles, Insurance & Pensions, and microfinance
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However there are consequences which privately equity funds additionally tend to aim to maximise their returns by an increase on efficiencies and cutting prices during the short run as where they control a company. In resulting of cost cutting which would occur towards unfavourab...
... the public and private sector. It uses both the weak form and semi strong from to make decisions. When an investor is given both public and private information the investor would not be able to profit about the average investor even if he was provided with new information at any given time. These investors are given name such as insiders, exchange specialist, analyst and money mangers. Insiders are senior managers that have access to inside information of that company. The security exchange commission prohibits that allow of inside information use to achieve abnormal returns on investments. An exchange specialist can achieve above average returns with specific order information on a specific equity. Analysts can analyze whether an analyst opinion can help an investor achieve above average returns. Institutional money mangers work handle mutual funds and pensions.
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