One fundamental puzzler is how to determine that precise private value market or intrinsic worth.
The gap had been closed between private market value and stock market prices.
It will appeal to people who really value private communication and want total control and ownership of their data.
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Private equity firms value their portfolios each quarter, a tricky process because many of their holdings are not traded on the open market.
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Like weather or market information collected by the public sector processed by the private sector to add value.
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Despite or perhaps because of his previous duty at the World Bank, he has a keen appreciation for the role of the private sector and the value of metrics.
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But when prospective sellers, including German Prince Michael zu Salm-Salm, checked, they learned Shapiro had no operations, no cash reserves and a pool of private stock of unpersuasive value, says Bowthorpe.
Since the Fed insists its acquisition of mortgages has simply been a temporary measure, Stiglitz predicts the rates will ultimately go up for the private sector while the value goes down, creating loss.
Much of the academic research that has been done in recent years demonstrates that private equity creates real value in the portfolio companies in which it invests, as well as giving investors the possibility of high returns.
Putting a value on private holdings is often art as much as it is math, even in a country with wide and transparent markets like the U.S.--ask the American staff that puts together the annual Forbes 400.
With Clear Channel's stock trading well below its buyout value, lenders to the private equity consortium now face the prospect of lending far more than the current market value of the target company, and at a time when banks are already nervous about making loans.
The fight over Strategic highlights the difference between how private investors and public markets value luxury hotels.
Many of these investors are able to pay a price closer to the loan's face value than bigger private-equity firms are willing to do.
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That way, at least, it could write down the value of its private and public debts, as well as cutting its wages and prices relative to those abroad, improving its competitiveness.
The government says that PFI is a vital part of its plans to expand and modernise the public sector, and that using the private sector can mean better value for money.
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Instead of focusing on aggregate demand replacement, policymakers should view government stimulus spending from an economic return perspective that focuses on the potential value created by government spending versus the potential value created by private spending.
Then, in order to account for companies that were highly valued while private but dropped significantly in value after their IPOs, we added an adjustment (up or down) in the company values in the immediate post-IPO period.
In the age of the Internet, it is time to recognize that very little is private any more and the value of carefully managed disclosure to a well-targeted group of sophisticated investors far outweighs any real or perceived cost of such disclosure.
What happens to private equity may be a leading indicator of how the crisis in the financial system will affect the rest of the business world, both because private-equity deals are so dependent on large amounts of debt, and because many of the shrewdest judges of corporate value work for private-equity funds.
For example, where it is well-known that the majority of public acquisitions destroy value, research by professor Laurence Capron from INSEAD shows that private deals, on average, do create value.
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Ultimately, the only measure of a private-equity stake's value is what it fetches when it is sold.
The reason is straightforward: Meeting customer needs is the core value for all successful private online customer communities.
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If private schools really added so much value, then the gap should widen.
The private sector seems to add tremendous value to this particular advocacy effort.
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This includes an extensive collection of company-owned private label brands, which offer value priced alternatives across numerous merchandise categories.
Charities might also be forced, like councils, to contract out some of their services to private firms if this produced better value.
Its benchmark government bond trades at 57% of its face value, suggesting that private investors fear losses if and when a new deal is brokered.
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