At my firm, we serve affluent high-net-worth individuals, families and businesses with financial planning, asset management and private equity services.
The plan: offer investment products across 3 segments including realty, traditional asset management and private equity.
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Pension funds may be eager to add to their holdings, given the losses they have suffered on shares and in alternative asset classes, such as hedge funds and private equity.
Fraud will not determine the success of crowdfunding as an asset class (particularly equity and debt crowdfunding).
They will also retain control of Cazenove's asset-management and private-equity businesses, though neither of these is big.
Short of liquidating the firm, a mixture of asset sales and a debt-equity swap may be the lesser of many evils.
Moody's also raised concerns about deterioration in MBIA's insured portfolio, given deterioration in mortgage performance data, particularly home equity and asset-backed collateralized debt obligations.
In the last decade, Goldman, like other Wall Street banks, has built up its trading and private equity groups alongside its more traditional asset management and merger and acquisitions advisory units.
This is probably one of the most commonly presented charts by proponents of passive investing and even asset managers (equity mutual funds) who use static allocation, but manage actively inside that range.
Small regional banks, less diversified than their larger brethren and more exposed to riskier asset classes such as home-equity lines of credit and commercial real estate, are most at risk of running out of capital-raising options.
Layoffs would slow and consumption resume if the Fed sped its asset purchases and Washington stopped imposing arbitrarily low prices on equity holders and regulatory capital in the blind assumption that crisis markets are accurately priced.
When done correctly and transparently, advocates say, third-party ownership is no different from a form of securitization: You unlock some of the equity in your asset and only pay the lender back when you sell up.
In May, New York's insurance commissioner, Eric Dinallo, urged Brown to move the capital to ease concerns about MBIA. The company announced its decision to move the capital on the same day Moody's published a report detailing what it saw as significant deteriorations in certain home equity and other asset-backed securities backed by bond insurance.
The company actually gets smaller, because it has less assets and less equity. (Compared to LInked-In, for example, that grew larger by selling shares and increasing its cash asset.) Over time the cash disappears, and the equity disappears.
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We believe, the increased proportion of equity as an asset class and passive investing as an investment strategy presents much upside to BlackRock.
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The BlackRock segment manages assets on behalf of institutional and individual investors worldwide through a variety of equity, fixed income, multi-asset class, alternative and cash management separate accounts and funds, including iShares.
Lehman's exposure to mortgage- and asset-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations is 400% of its tangible common equity, according to research by Sanford Bernstein.
The SPIVA Scorecard provides performance comparisons corrected for survivorship bias, equal- and asset-weighted peer averages and measures of style consistency for actively managed U.S. equity, international equity and fixed income mutual funds.
The firm is a leader in investment banking, asset management, private banking, private equity, custody and transaction services and retail and middle market financial services.
Among private equity shops, billionaire Wilbur Ross and Marathon Asset Management are both investing in distressed subprime mortgages.
When retail investors are worried about their investments in equity (stocks), bonds, and asset allocation funds, they move their money.
ETPs are now available for a wide range of equity asset classes, sub-classes, styles and sectors as well as fixed-income, commodity and foreign currency categories on a long and short basis.
We buy several types of equity and fixed income funds that span many different asset classes.
It is also trading as a risk asset as well and this is evident as it rises and falls with equity markets now.
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In December the group created a new asset management unit, China Merchants Capital, to oversee private equity and alternative investments (Fu is its chairman and CEO).
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According to advisory firm Triago, the net asset values of private equity portfolios on average dropped between 3% and 5% in the three months following June 30.
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Nearly two weeks ago, Nomura analyst Alastair Syme floated what looked like a novel idea at the time: with debt financing appearing expensive and asset sales taking time, oil giant BP may consider an equity-linked financing backed by a sovereign wealth fund.
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Each period is marked by a massive run up in asset prices followed by a tremendous deflationary pressure that has sent both debt and equity markets into turmoil (down).
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No. 12, "speculative areas beyond housing may suffer in 2007, " has commenced with the evaporation of the asset-backed commercial paper market last summer and the drying up of private equity financing.
All signs suggest that private equity net asset values rose for an eighth consecutive quarter between January and March.
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