Hints and tips:
...— Card prices are falling, game stores are losing money, collectors are liquidating and large retailers are cutting orders. Oof!...
...“If you’re preventing these retailers from liquidating, that helps the whole industry, but yes, there are competitive concerns about how you make store closure decisions,” Mr Tibone said....
...Toys R Us was taken private in 2005 for $6.6bn by Bain Capital, KKR and Vornado Realty Trust....
...Toys R Us entered bankruptcy last September, buckling under $5bn of debt, a decade after it was taken private in a leveraged buyout by KKR, Bain Capital and Vornado Realty Trust....
...For instance, here's a paper suggesting a continuously liquidating mutual fund as a modern update....
...The company ended up liquidating its assets after it filed for Chapter 11....
...The FSA, which says it will push for new sales legislation by 2013, is worried that investors did not realise that, in falling markets, some funds would make their promised monthly payment by liquidating...
...Last Friday they poured Y181bn ($2.3bn) into newly established global investment trusts, which buy assets outside Japan. That figure was bigger than the sum for the whole of January, which was Y111bn....
...The Government Service Insurance System, the country’s biggest social security organisation in terms of assets, has started liquidating about $670m worth of placements in global equities, bonds and money...
...On the other hand, foreign investors may start liquidating their holdings of Japanese equities because of the riskier economic outlook, increasing supply of the currency....
...The deals Lehman re-worked in recent months range the gamut from REITs-gone-private Archstone Smith and Innkeepers USA Trust to billion-dollar property portfolios in New York and Rosslyn, Virginia....
...I have used the market’s recent strength to begin liquidating a significant amount of our holdings....
...The pace of hedge fund closures has slowed while start-ups have increased, with the number of hedge funds liquidating assets falling by half to 376 in the first quarter from a record 778 in the fourth quarter...
...“Cash received from liquidating assets, including additional returns, will be returned to the Treasury’s general fund for the benefit of American taxpayers,” it says....
...The American Farmland Trust, which campaigns to protect agricultural land, estimates that 1.1m acres are lost to development every year. But now that process has ground to a halt....
...Since Freddie Mac is going to be a liquidating trust, he’s going to be perfect.” Mr Moffett is currently a senior adviser to the Carlyle Group, the private equity firm, and a director at eBay....
...As wary consumers slow spending, investors in retail real estate investment trusts are growing nervous....
...Most major participants agreed to a standstill on liquidating assets and on lawsuits until Jan 31. But investors have already taken sizeable writedowns on their holdings....
...I have a good team who I trust, but you want to know what is going on.”...
...they have confidence in the business and it is not going to be a case of going in, closing all the stores and liquidating the real estate?....
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