Equity investing

16 Feb

Useful Guide – How To Improve Understanding of Best Alternative …
It should be started with that an alternative investment is regarded as an investment product other than traditional investments. The other important feature is that the term usually refers to private equity investing, … read more…

Turkey the winner in Gulf’s investment hunt « EUROMED B2B MARKETPLACE
-Abraaj Capital, an investment firm specializing in private equity investments in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, partnered with the Ac?badem Hospital and then the Numarine yacht company. … read more…

Investment Performance Expectations: WCM Fine Tuning
But, 3) most high quality income securities can be expected to continue producing income regardless of their market price and most investment grade equity securities purchased at relatively low prices will eventually … read more…

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Tips to Leverage A Down Ecomony to Create A Solar Energy Business
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Canadian SRI funds closely monitoring Barrick
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Selling Your Owner Financed Loan – FAQ
Selling Your Owner Financed Loan – FAQ

If you’ve ever taken out a mortgage with a bank then maybe you’ve experienced this: about 6-8 weeks after closing you receive a letter from a t… read more…

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World’s biggest private-equity firm to eliminate 70 jobs

http://www.EmploymentCrossing.com

Blackstone Group LP, the world’s biggest private-equity firm, plans to cut 70 jobs as profits decline, Bloomberg.com has reported.

Bloomberg.com sources say the layoffs represent about seven percent of Blackstone’s 1,000 workers and will affect most of the company’s businesses.

Blackstone, who buys and sells companies, also invests in real estate, manages hedge funds, and runs a merger-advisory business.

Blackstone declined to comment on the matter.
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Open Question: Having a problem with solving for the direct method, statement of cash flows?
year2,year1
cash 3000, 22000
accounts rec 120000, 82000
inv 108000, 85000
prepaid exp 5000, 8000
total current assets 236000, 197000
long term inv 54000, 74000
plant and equip 436000, 280000
less accum deprecitation 60000, 50000
net plant and equip 376000, 230000
ttoal assets 666000, 501000

acct payable 72000, 60000
accrued liabilities 19000, 18000
total current liabilities 91000, 78000
bonds payable 130000, 0
deferred income taxes 12000, 10000
preferred stock 82000, 95000
common stock 265000, 238000
retained earnings 86000, 80000
total stockholders equity 433000, 413000
total liab & stockhldrs equity 666000, 501000

sales 502000
scosts of goods sold 310000
gross margin 192000
selling and admin expenses156000
net operating income 36000
gain on sale of invest 10000
gain on sale of equip 3000
income before taxes 49000
income taxes 18000
net income 31000

year 2 (misc)
dividends of 25000 paid in cash
equipment sold for 10000. original cost was 25000 and accumulated depreciation of 18000
decrease in preferred stock is result of conversion to equal dollar amount of common stock
long term invest that had cost 20000 were sold during the year for 30000

Resolved Question: Wouldn’t Dean Baker make the best US Treasury Secretary?
The Fabulous Baker Boy writes, somewhere on Josh Marshall’s TPM. My one complaint is that if Obama had won then the TARP would not have been “a $700 billion giveaway to Wall Street.” Only if McCain had won–and only if McCain’s Treasury Secretary was Phil “Nothing’s Wrong with Deregulation, You Nation fo Whiners!” Gramm or Carly “But I Like My $41M Golden Parachute!” Fiorina–would it have turned into a large-scale giveaway. My belief is that if Paulson were to stay on he would treat undercapitalized banks like a Goldman-Sachs honcho treats counterparties in trouble: strip them of everything and send them naked into the blizzard to live or die on their own–that’s what he and Bernanke have done to the preferred and common shareholders of Freddie, Fannie, AIG, WaMu, Wachovia, Bear-Stearns, Lehman, and to the bondholders and counterparties of Lehman…

Here’s Dean. I think he wants us to name Warren Buffett to be chairman of an National Industrial Recovery Administration and give him $1T to invest in banks and expanding tradeables-producing industries:

In spite of its best efforts, the Bush administration failed to push through a $700 billion giveaway to Wall Street. President Bush conjured up scary images… even partially backed away from his initial demand for a complete blank check…. But the public refused to send their tax dollars to Wall Street banks run by incompetent bankers…. While the editorialists are busy denouncing members of Congress for surrendering to the vulgar masses, it’s a good time to quickly check the score card. The United States is in a recession and facing the worst financial crisis in almost 80 years because the folks currently in charge were out to lunch.

They allowed an $8 trillion housing bubble ($110,000 for every homeowner) to grow unchecked…. The main cause of the economy’s weakness is not insolvent banks and lack of credit; it’s the loss of $4 trillion to $5 trillion in housing equity as a result of the bubble’s partial deflation. Families used their equity to support their consumption in the years from 2002 to 2007, as the savings rate fell to almost zero… families can no longer sustain their levels of consumption… banks won’t lend to these families is that they no longer have home equity to serve as collateral…. And house prices are not going to come back….

The main problem in recovering from the recession will be finding ways to boost demand other than household consumption. In the longer run… reducing imports and increasing exports. In the short-run…government stimulus…. Democratic demands for stimulus were not extraneous to the legitimate goal of a bank bailout bill. Fiscal stimulus must be central…. It would be good to get our banks in order, but it also would be good to send $100 billion to state and local governments to support infrastructure projects and other spending.

How do we go about getting the banks in order? Almost every economist I know rejects the Paulson approach and argues instead for directly injecting capital into the banks. The taxpayers give them the money and then we own some, or all, of the bank. (That’s what Warren Buffet did with Goldman Sachs.) This isn’t about… constructing a bank rescue the way that business people would do it. We have an interest in a well-operating financial system. There is zero public interest in… Wall Street banks and their executives.

If Secretary Paulson constructed a package that was centered around buying direct equity stakes in the banks, he could quickly garner large majority support in both houses. Better yet, Congress could just construct its own package centered on buying equity stakes and send it to President Bush. If he balks, we can just threaten him with stories about the Great Depression.

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/10/dean-baker-on-t.html
You can hear his views regarding the stimulus package at:

http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=99258949&m=99284807