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What VCs Are Worrying About
in Wangtam, on July 1, 2009
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July 8: China Cleantech Business Forum
in China Venture News, on June 30, 2009
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2Point6Billion (a blog that looks at economic issues in China and India) has a write up online on the upcoming China Cleantech Business Forum.
The July 8th forum will be Asia's first cleantech business conference.
Cleantech is a growing industry focus for venture capital and...
Employee Compensation Case Law
in China Venture News, on June 29, 2009
China Law Blog had a case study (of sorts) this past week on employee compensation. The article looked at an employee claim for pregnancy leave that was filed after they'd been laid off.
The situation was complicated by the fact that the employee did not have a written contract and that the...
Has Intel finally broken into the cell phone market?
in Wangtam, on June 24, 2009
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Art Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 10, 2009
...nd gaining +3.11% in 2009 as of the end of May. With this, the fund was not only able to outperform equity and fixed income markets, but also various art market indices.
Art Funds as an Alternative ...
Are reverse mortgages the next trouble spot?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 8, 2009
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Reverse mortgages are popular these days. They let homeowners 62 or older convert a portion of the equity in their homes into cash. Unlike a traditional home equity loan or second mortgage, though, r...
Recession Forces More Golf Deals
in Eagle Par Birdie, on June 8, 2009
...f course just to have a steak sandwich and a beer.
The first decent marketing measure was probably equity membership. This was a solid answer to private memberships where you plunked down thousands o...
Subprime and racism
in Sox First, on June 7, 2009
...Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro wrote in The American Prospect toward the end of last year, home equity accounts for 63% of total average net worth of black households versus only 38.5% of average ...
The recession: blaming the business schools
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
...t? Until recently, the majority of Harvard's MBAs went into jobs in investment banking, private equity or hedge funds. These were the careers of choice. You can make long lists of high-profile MBA...
Downturn easing without recovery
in Sox First, on May 12, 2009
...re likely than not, more bank losses." Stiglitz says harsh medicine in the form of a debt for equity swap, where bond holders basically cancel their debt in exchange for equity in the banks, is ...
Disney 将收购 Hulu 部分股份
in Wangtam, on May 2, 2009
...e Equity Partners 私募股权基金的投资。
视频网站 Hulu 由 NBC 环球，新闻集团及 Providence 私募于 2007 年合资建立。此次 Disney 入股的财务细节尚未正式披露。
据《华尔街日报》报道称，Disney 或将持有 Hulu 近 30% 的股份。根据交易协议，Disney 的注资金额将与NBC环球、新闻集团相同。在 Hulu 新的股权结构中，Disne...
Nouriel Roubini: we're not even at the bottom yet
in Sox First, on April 27, 2009
... from. "We had the real-estate bubble, tech bubble, housing bubble, hedge-fund bubble, private-equity bubble, commodities bubble, even the art bubble-and they are all bursting,'' he says....
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
...involved. Even more alarming is that this follows reports that the bailout money might convert to equity stakes in the banks, resulting in the nationalization of banks via the back-door....
Assessing the Future of Venture Capitalism
in TJ's Weblog, on April 20, 2009
...ecovering from the dot-com bust at the turn of the century, a long-time venture capital and private equity player said Thursday.
"Nine years later, there's still no venture capital industry,...
New Hedge Fund Manager at SilkInvest
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 15, 2009
...ow the universe inside out but he is also of the few able to capitalise on that knowledge to obtain equity like returns in the frontier fixed income space."
Offshore Emerging Market Firm Hires ...
IPOs: don't blame Sarbox
in Sox First, on April 15, 2009
...ny more alternative sources of finance. Debt can be sold in the private market, there's private equity and retail investors hold less than 30% of publicly traded shares with the remainder held thr...
Skype's Founders Want Their Company Back
in The VoIP Weblog, on April 10, 2009
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"Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype, have approached several private equity firms and are pooling their own substantial resources to make a bid for the Internet calling ...
Two Equity Fund Launches
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 6, 2009
...g advantage of liquidity opportunities.
Full story; Hedge Fund Manager Silk Invest Launches Two Equity Funds
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Collecting Bad Debts Through MySpace? Not...
in The Social Networking Weblog, on April 2, 2009
...ind on her car payments - and everyone kind of knows that now because Assets Recovered and Advanced Equity evidently allegedly posted something on her MySpace page about it. That violates credit la...
Car chiefs in the gun
in Sox First, on March 30, 2009
Who would want to be a car chief today? It's become one of the world's worst jobs. Two have been sacked and there's more to come. First we have the Obama administration forcing General Motors chief executive Rick Wagoner to rack off. In his statement , Wagoner made it clear that ...
Geithner's push for power and the law of unexpected outcomes
in Sox First, on March 26, 2009
...sury Secretary Timothy Geithner is moving to tighten up the rules for monster hedge funds, private- equity firms and derivatives markets, it's worth looking at what's ahead and whether we shou...
The Future of Electric Car Maker Th!nk
in IfEnergy, on March 14, 2009
... a site for the facility that would initially employ about 300 workers.
Th!nk is owned by private equity group Novus Energy Partners.
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The bear is bouncing
in Sox First, on March 14, 2009
Forget the irresponsible headline in Forbes, Tide Turns For Wall Street following this week's solid trading figures. Maybe they should have a cold shower, or at least check the fundamentals. This is a bounce, not a rally. We still have the problem of the credit crisis and zombie banks, no...
Another step to nationalization?
in Sox First, on February 24, 2009
...will be in the form of mandatory convertible preferred shares, which would be converted into common equity shares only as needed over time to keep banks in a well-capitalized position and can be retir...
Citigroup - first National Bank?
in Sox First, on February 23, 2009
...deral officials about the US government taking over as much as 40%. That's the biggest slice of equity since the US Government took on 80% of insurance giant American International Group last year...
Madoff and the conspiracy of silence
in Sox First, on February 16, 2009
...was a shyster but kept shtum. "Leon Gross, the former managing director in charge of worldwide equity derivatives research for Citigroup, told friends and colleagues on Wall Street in 2005 that h...
Panetta's conflicts of interest
in Sox First, on February 5, 2009
.... He was getting paid by the likes of loss-makers Merrill Lynch and Wachovia as well as the private equity firm Carlyle Group. So where is the potential conflict of interest. Consider this: he receiv...
Obama's options
in Sox First, on January 26, 2009
... Gray . The first is to nationalise the banks. The problem with that is that wipes out shareholder equity and increase the US Government's massive debt. The only positive is that it might create ...
4 Crisis Related Suicides (Report)
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 7, 2009
...Germany.
Kirk Stephenson, the 47-year-old New Zealand-born chief operating officer at the private equity firm Olivant, died instantly when he was hit by a train at Taplow station in Buckinghamshire,...
What's ahead for US financial institutions?
in Sox First, on January 6, 2009
...o see what lies ahead for the US financial services sectors, particularly mortgage brokers, private equity firms and hedge funds. Economist james K Galbraith has produced his list which makes a...
Mergers of necessity: the big trend for 2009
in Sox First, on December 26, 2008
...rtner in PricewaterhouseCoopers' Transaction Services group. We can also expect to see private equity make a big comeback as the downturn will provide the best buying opportunities.
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Venture Capitalists Karen Gordon Mills Nominated to Head the Small Business Administration
in Bizinformer, on December 20, 2008
...ominated by President-elect Obama to lead the Small Business Administration. She has been a private equity investor since 1993. She was founding partner and managing director of the New York firm Sole...
Morgan Stanley's Asia PE Chief Gets Axed
in China Venture News, on December 20, 2008
...than Mandel, the managing director of Morgan Stanley's Hong Kong-based Asia Pacific private equity banking team, was "let go" as part of a round of layoffs announced last month.
Ac...
Automaker bailout: at what cost?
in Sox First, on December 19, 2008
...ansactions larger than $100 million. The automakers will have to cut their debt by two thirds in an equity exchange, make half of the payments to a union retirement fund in equity, eliminate a program...
Buying a Home
in The Dating Weblog, on December 19, 2008
... Homeowner's Survival Guide, as saying, "The earlier you buy, the earlier you'll build equity. If you buy at age 25, you could easily own this or another house free and clear by age 55.&q...
Goldman Sachs tax lurk
in Sox First, on December 17, 2008
... went public in 1999. This is the firm that raised an extra $20.7 billion by selling $10 billion of equity to the US Government as part of its $700 billion banks bailout and the rest from investors in...
How to Keep Your Job: Personal Branding
in Bizinformer, on December 12, 2008
...s like becoming the "go-to-person" for a specific skill in your workplace, gaining social equity at work, advertising yourself, and more.
Schawbel owns the award-winning Personal Branding...
$8 Billion Evaporates from Harvard's Endowment
in The Universities Weblog, on December 10, 2008
...be even higher, once it factors in declines in hard-to-value assets such as real estate and private equity - investments that have become increasingly popular among colleges. The university is plannin...
No quick fix for US housing market
in Sox First, on December 5, 2008
...e height of the real estate boom, borrowers used their homes like a piggy bank. They used the home- equity loans to pay for a wide range of expenses. Want to renovate or pay off credit-card debt? Tap ...
Tudor Halts Redemptions
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on December 2, 2008
...nages $15.4 billion. The firm's investment strategies include global macro trading, fundamental equity investing in the U.S. and Europe, emerging markets, venture capital, commodities , event d...
The Subprime Solution - Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on December 1, 2008
...es. He proposes Governments to issue debt indexed to their GDP, continuous work out mortgages, home equity insurance and livelihood insurance. "Modern finance, applied democratically, can relega...
WaMu Looking to Get Rid of VC Stakes
in TJ's Weblog, on November 25, 2008
...s (Funds II and III and a sidecar fund from 1998); Madrona Venture Group (Funds I and III); Maveron Equity Partners (its 2000 vintage fund); and northwest Venture Partners (Fund III).
The move by...
Tim Geithner: crisis manager
in Sox First, on November 22, 2008
...ast two decades, the relative ease with which the U.S. financial system weathered the stress of the equity market shock and September 11, the increased mobility of the world's savings and the opti...
Great Time To Learn Golf. Not.
in Eagle Par Birdie, on November 22, 2008
... adult consumers in the U.S. is a nightmare right now. 1 in 6 American homeowners is in a negative equity situation where the size of the mortgage exceeds the value of the property. If that adult wo...
Consumer patterns in crunch
in Sox First, on November 11, 2008
We are seeing some interesting patterns with mcdonalds announcing strong results despite the downturn. Forbes has gone so far as to suggest it's all because of McDonalds' "recession-proof menu" but the picture is more complicated than that. As a rule, discretionary spe...
Morningstar and Barron's Survey Highlights An Upward Trend In Alternatives
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 11, 2008
... that for institutions limited partnerships, including hedge funds, direct real estate, and private equity, are the most popular alternative vehicles for institutions.
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PE Firms Invest Heavily in Education in Asia
in China Venture News, on November 10, 2008
... PEHub reported last week on the growing investment in education that private equity firms seem to be making in Asia.
Because of the value that Asian society places on education, the sector is seen...
Apax Partners to Open Shanghai Office
in China Venture News, on November 8, 2008
...to open an office in Shanghai by the end of the year.
The Shanghai office would be the Private Equity firms first office in China.
According to Wikipedia, Apax Partners is "one of the oldes...
Accounting regulators protecting banks
in Sox First, on November 6, 2008
...e. It's a neat little trick called reclassification. By reclassifying the warrants as permanent equity rather than derivatives, the gains and losses don't show up in the earnings. As Bloombe...
Bailing out General Motors
in Sox First, on October 28, 2008
...arties have struggled to line up financing. The combined entity would need about $10 billion in new equity to cover the cost of laying off workers, closing plants and integrating the two companies, sa...
Actis Puts $168 Million into 7 Dasy Inn, Ambow Education
in China Venture News, on October 27, 2008
... TRENDSnIFF reported Friday that UK private equity inverstor Actis is leading an investment push into two China companies: 7 Days Inn and Ambow Education.
Other investors involved in the two dea...
Greenspan's legacy
in Sox First, on October 25, 2008
...ks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms" It really beggars belief. As Tom Rutten in the Los Angeles Times notes,...
Report on the Impact Presidential Elections will have on US Investments
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 22, 2008
... the future of the US and its long term investment opportunities.
Peter Dicks, Chairman of Private Equity Investor said: "Yes, I believe the election will have an impact in the sense that it wil...
Europe Feels the Crisis
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 20, 2008
..., but there are signs that cause concern for this author. In many economies, governments are taking equity positions in financial institutions as a way of shoring up their capital structure. These sam...
Soros saw it coming
in Sox First, on October 17, 2008
...e decline will be self-reinforcing, with people walking away from homes in which they have negative equity and more and more financial institutions becoming insolvent, thus reinforcing both the recess...
Forecasts of the economic disaster
in Sox First, on October 13, 2008
...which has led both to a huge surge in construction and to high consumer spending, as people extract equity from their homes. On the other side, we have a huge trade deficit, which we cover by selling ...
GM-Chrysler merger: a bad idea for bad times
in Sox First, on October 11, 2008
...amifications for Ford. Still, it's not a done deal. All eyes will be on Cerberus, the Private equity firm which last year acquired 80.1% of Chrysler from Daimler which, at the time, was all to...
Knapp macht kreativ.
in Selbst und Ständig, on October 6, 2008
...tzt gilt es kreativ zu schauen, wie kommt man am Besten aus diesem Engpass:
- Private Equity
- Akquisetrommel rühren
- AdWords Kampagne
- Ausgabenumschichtungen
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Hier kommt jetzt die Kreativität...
If You Had to Choose, Would You Pay Your Mortgage First or Your Credit Card Bill?
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 6, 2008
...icture it is likely the place where you have the greatest monetary investment, when you look at the equity you have in your house or condo. But, as the article points out, the day-to-day sometimes win...
Sarbanes-Oxley and foreign firms
in Sox First, on October 2, 2008
... we have had an ongoing debate about whether Sarbanes-Oxley is forcing foreign companies to quit US equity markets. Now we have a new study Why do foreign firms leave U.S. equity markets? An analysi...
Bain Capital, Silver Lake Look for Piece of Huawei Technologies
in China Venture News, on October 1, 2008
...A Reuters report in the International Herald Tribune today says that private equity firms Bain Capital and Silver Lake have submitted formal offers for a stake in China's largest mobile phon...
Abu Dhabi to Start $1.5 Billion China Fund
in China Venture News, on September 29, 2008
...onomic Times reported yesterday that Abu Dhabi Investment House is planning a $1.5 billion private equity fund to invest (along with a Chinese partner) in real estate and manufacturing in China.
Abu...
Online Clothing Retailer PPG Receives US$100 Million
in China Venture News, on September 28, 2008
TRENDSnIFF reported last week that online men's apparel retailer PPG (Perfect Products Group) "bagged US$100 million in fourth-round financing from an unnamed American department store operator."
PPG was started in October of 2005 as one of China's first business-2-customer onli...
Trion 获收 7000 万美元投资
in Wangtam, on September 27, 2008
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融资方： Trion World Network
投资方： Peacock Equity ，GE Commercial Finance's Media，NBC Universal 和 Communications & Entertainment business
涉及金额：7000 万美元（第三轮）...
Bailout blues
in Sox First, on September 25, 2008
...ites: "Like wage-price controls, Paulson's plan is no panacea. Banks, hedge funds, private equity funds and others are trying to reduce risk by "deleveraging" - selling stocks and b...
SEC's shortcomings
in Sox First, on September 20, 2008
...d it wasn't the short sellers who encouraged the investment banks to blow out their debt to equity ratios. Short sellers play an important role in a market that feeds off bubbles and exuberan...
Hua An Fund Will Suffer From Lehman
in China Venture News, on September 16, 2008
Hua An Fund Management Co. warned today that it could suffer "potentially heavy losses" from bankruptcy of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, according to the Industry Standard .
No numbers were given.
The Hua An Fund is a "qualified domestic institutional investor," or QDI...
Hedge Fund Managers Work Together
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 11, 2008
...ternative investments. It raises capital for investment manager clients that include hedge, private equity and venture capital funds and funds of funds, as well as for private companies seeking direct...
