The equity in those properties are used as collateral or leverage to acquire more.
Borrowed money, or leverage, made up 49% of buyouts last year, down from 57% in 2010, according to data-provider PitchBook.
Once implemented, developers can include a number of Facebook Widgets, like the Fan Box, or leverage any API, which enable the transformation of any Web page so it functions similar to a Facebook Page.
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And all without adding risk or leverage?
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Commodity purveyors like paper, cement, chemicals and aluminum hold little upside price or demand leverage in 1998.
The funds would have those hedge-fund characteristics, says Mr Bonham Carter, but would not go short or use leverage.
That will require the REITS to put up more collateral, reducing the 6:1 or greater leverage they use to provide those generous 12%-plus yields.
"We often advise our funds, especially those with swaps or high leverage, to organize as an offshore vehicle for U.S. investors because of the tax advantages, " he says.
And looking at the 10 largest developed economies, its analysis is that only three of them have seen a fall in indebtedness or "leverage" since the crash and recession of 2008.
So much of the rationale in having a CIO take on another area of responsibilities is the need for process improvement in the new area, or the need to leverage technology better in the new area, or to identify ways in which setting standards or centralizing to a greater degree might reduce costs.
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Security Council, or its diplomatic leverage in Khartoum, to help resolve crises such as the five-year conflict in Darfur, Sudan.
Trade on CFTC-sanctioned foreign OTC platforms respecting CFTC rules on LIFO and perhaps 10:1 leverage or take their chances in offshore tax havens.
As the fund does not employ leverage or derivatives for risk management, Exante intends to provide a two-way secondary market for the trading of fund shares.
Understanding what you are willing to accept or use as leverage to gain what you really want promotes the process and increases your level of satisfaction.
MPs complain that they cannot exert any leverage or get any answers, with ministers insisting UKFI is an arm's length body for which they are not answerable.
What is striking is that there has been modest reductions in the indebtedness of British households and non-financial companies over the past three years, to 98% and 109% of GDP respectively - which are still high levels of leverage or high debt ratios by historic standards.
Or to put it another way, in the absence of dangerous leverage - or huge debts relative to their capital resources - can Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Barclays Capital and so on make a decent return without a massive overhaul in their business models (management-consultant speak for huge job cuts)?
They need to make the data actionable and leverage spatial or predictive analytics to add real intelligence into the analytics process.
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If you want action, pick a service company with a lot of operating leverage, or high fixed costs in proportion to revenue.
That encouraged investors to use leverage, or borrowed money, to enhance returns.
From 2000-2009, pay was well-aligned with performance, and the leverage, or risk-orientation, of the program was balanced on both the upside and downside.
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It had no massive marketing budget or brand portfolio to leverage.
Moreover, it appears that social networking is a classic increasing-returns business, and Facebook was good or lucky enough to leverage it better than anyone else.
The mechanism described is not something the average user could, or reasonably would, leverage, as it requires local access to a system, local administration rights and a debugger in order to work.
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Will they opt to leverage a fund or change the EFSF into a bank?
While repeatedly mentioning both the opportunities of and threats to cyberspace, not once does the strategy actually identify the supposed opportunities or explain how DOD will leverage them.
There may be some money protection issues in the U.K., but working with an unregistered broker or bank and using unlimited leverage might make it more unsafe overall.
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Now obviously a little of this is going to be required on any touch screen, but the Bobby software doesn't even try to leverage any gestures or motion controls.
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There are two possible ways Apple could open up the Apple TV platform to third-party app developers: It could allow devs to create dedicated TV apps, or it could more heavily leverage (and open up) the AirPlay feature already baked into Apple TV to port existing iPad apps to the big screen.
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