Hints and tips:
...Another deterrent was the requirement to invest half the deal’s value into Carlyle Partners VIII, said people briefed on the matter....
...OpenAI’s latest deal talks could value the company at $86bn....
...Outside the barn, a Black man dressed in patched overalls and a coat worn at the seams, stands hidden from view against the open door....
...Carlyle had sold off $1.4bn in investments and was marked at a fair value of $21.5bn, or a 1.3 times gain....
...We’re all a little jumpy about liquidity problems and hidden leverage and bank run-type situations these days, what with rates shooting up, the British pension crisis, and that kid with the shaggy hair blowing...
...Now Cassar embraces mortadella’s thriftiness, sourcing a “wide range” of styles from butchers across Australia (LP’s Quality Meats, Princi and Meatsmith)....
...There was also a massively troubling line item: a negative $8bn entry described as “hidden, poorly internally labled ‘fiat@’ account”....
...In Babylon’s case, the deal gives the company an enterprise value of $3.6bn and $575m in gross proceeds....
...Deep in the bowels of the headquarters of the UK’s Ministry of Defence is hidden the wine cellar of Henry VIII....
...Just over a year later, NMC was forced to file for administration after discovering billions of dollars of hidden debts. The issue?...
...The second is to reflect how much the value of the US equity market has grown — from $1tn in 1975 to more than $35tn today....
...In a way, the Starbucks trade is a return to his value investing roots — picking a relatively low multiple company that he believes is trading at a sizeable discount to market value....
...Investors, however, have difficulty in assessing value for money because of complex and opaque agreements that allow private equity managers to charge multiple layers of hidden fees....
...That's not to argue that the album, or a human-curated playlist, does not hold value....
...Meanwhile, we can fondly look back at an activist fight that included colourful accusations of secret vote-buying schemes and hidden poison puts....
...Musical values are paramount and we are already planning three to four years in advance to secure the best people.”...
...Blackstone is to pay $39m in compensation and fines in the latest action by US regulators to stamp out hidden fees across the private equity industry....
...The distinction is somewhat analogous to the division between value stocks and growth stocks in the public markets — and just like in the public markets, “value” has beaten “growth” over the long run....
...If the product or service you’re getting is free, it must by definition be being subsidised with bad value elsewhere....
...One final thing to note is that this is not the first time Herbalife has talked up the value of its very large compliance team....
...European financials have already moved from 0.5 times book value one year ago to 0.7 times book value today, according to Mr Hargraves....
...But, he argues – to my mind, convincingly – the dollar’s role as a store of value has if anything been strengthened by the crisis....
...Over the past year, various German states have intensified their buying of client information stolen from Swiss banks, in an attempt to catch rich Germans with undeclared wealth hidden in offshore accounts...
...Then sell the company at a premium, with the upside multiplying the value of the equity investment....
...Mr Paulson said that the fact that the group had pushed its debt maturities out until 2015, when $8bn comes due, gave the stock a period of option value during which the business could recover ....
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