The heftier equity base has also helped it acquire Chase Manhattan's credit-card business in Singapore.

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The Jatanias haven't enjoyed such good timing in expanding their equity base.

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Another method, now the favorite of hedge funds (as Bernard Condon explains), is to persuade corporations to buy in their own shares, shrinking their equity base and thus their tax bills.

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For instance, a financial subplot that's all about selling assets will prevent the company from investing in more assets, whereas one that involves increases in the equity base will encourage motivating people with stock options.

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The overall message of the panel: private equity is in good shape and many of the attacks on what private equity does are off base.

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Meanwhile, the Chinese base also includes substantial brand equity with consumers.

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Chinese firms, for example, derive 60% of their income from equities trading, putting them "at the mercy of equity markets and turnover, as well as their mainly retail investor base, " said Bonn Liu, a partner at KPMG China.

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"Basically, they are purchasing a very strong customer base and a global network, " says Vik Grover, an equity analyst with Needham.

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Base broadening proposals show up so frequently because there appears to be both efficiency gains and equity gains from scaling back these deductions.

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Some form of equity issue is likely in the form of depositary receipts, because Yuksi wants to broaden a shareholding base that will be narrow at first.

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