These loans give them access to their home equity right away, either through a lump sum, monthly payments, or a line of credit.
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Allianz ( AZ - news - people ), is getting into the equity business right now.
Carlyle, facing a climate of bearishness about the future of private equity, did it just right.
The have an established level of brand equity which earns them the right to be creative, fun, offbeat, wacky even in their tagline.
Right now, equity markets are trading at a five-year high.
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Each year's number is discounted back to the present at a discount rate that accounts for the growth of the ten-year Treasury, inflation and equity risk, which stands right now at 8.4%.
If neither pure equity nor pure debt is the right solution for the near term, perhaps the answer is something that combines the better points of the two.
Previously, it was believed that having the right mix of debt and equity could make a company more valuable.
For years, businessmen believed that having the right mix of debt and equity could make their company more valuable.
No one knows exactly what the right balance of debt and equity is in an economy, but the shrinkage of securitisation in particular makes it more likely that the process of deleveraging will overshoot.
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Meanwhile, just look at the value opportunities popping up right and left in the global equity markets.
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Like other private-equity firms, the firm has little choice right now but to focus on buying middle-market companies.
Developers are as gloomy as everybody else right now, few have much equity left, and lending standards are very tight.
In particular, the Obama campaign has targeted Romney's experience in private equity, calling it successful capitalism but not the right background for government leadership.
They are requiring firms to start making the right sort of noises about return on equity, abandoning unprofitable businesses and focusing on their core strengths.
Wilson, who has been selling real estate for 23 years, says people who don't have equity in their homes are in a difficult position right now.
Right now, Luciano says prices in the equity market have yet to stabilize, and are still trending downward.
The Dodgers may be right with their apparent assumptions about how much equity they can get in the new RSN and how big an up-front bonus TWC is willing to pay.
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With visibility on two uncertain elements, and with the opportunity to exit its equity stake before year-end, the time is right for the Treasury to close out its AIG position in the offering to be conducted by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman Sachs Group and JPMorgan Chase.
To get it right, leaders must allow dollar-denominated private equity funds back into the game on equal terms.
Rob Collins, chief analyst with Asia Equity in Bangkok, is cautious about whether the Democrats have the right stuff to turn the economy around.
CatEputs (short for Catastrophe Equity Put Option) are derivative contracts that give the insured the right to sell new shares at a fixed price, which the investor promises to buy in the event of a catastrophe.
By 2005, Centre Partners had fully exited the business through secondary offerings, but with the business still growing three years later and an alteration of the tax implications for Canadian income trusts, the time was right to step back into the business and the private equity firm acquired Connor Bros.
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Prudential is targeting 19% return-on-equity in its international business, and we believe it is on the right track.
Of course, the private-equity groups claim that they have stockpicking and management skills, selecting the right companies to buy and then transforming them by judicious cost-cutting and investment.
Fettig could be right and the company may in fact be bought by private equity for a premium price, but as far as value-focused investors are concerned, the buying opportunity has likely passed.
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