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The Biggest Reset Looms for Corporate Credit Market
- 5th January 2018
- Posted by: Tunde Ajisegiri
- Category: Innovation
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Banks sell them to loan mutual funds, or they slice-and-dice them into structured Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs in short) and sell them to institutional investors.
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Why Trump Is So Clumsy About Fighting ‘Free Trade’
- 4th January 2018
- Posted by: Tunde Ajisegiri
- Category: Franchising
According to media, President Trump announced last week that he plans to impose 25 percent tariffs on imported steel and 10 percent on imported aluminum.
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Stock Buybacks Hurt Workers and the Economy
- 3rd January 2018
- Posted by: Tunde Ajisegiri
- Category: Economics
Workers, innovation, and productivity all suffer when corporations spend their new U.S. tax breaks on stock buybacks.
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SEC Stymies Plans to Offer Bitcoin Funds Anytime
- 1st January 2018
- Posted by: Tunde Ajisegiri
- Category: Research
Just last week, the SEC confounded these expectations, by asking sponsors to withdraw proposals to offer ETFs based on bitcoin futures.
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Shareholder Proposals Target Climate Change Risk
- 28th December 2017
- Posted by: Tunde Ajisegiri
- Category: Research
Actual voting data seems to confirm the study; many shareholders are coming off the sidelines on environmental and social shareholder proposals.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Stability of Markets
- 27th December 2017
- Posted by: Tunde Ajisegiri
- Category: Funding trends
Artificial intelligence (AI) is useful for optimally controlling an existing system, one with clearly understood risks. It excels at pattern matching and control mechanisms.
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More Signs of Private Equity Market Frenzy: Firms Selling Stakes
- 26th December 2017
- Posted by: Tunde Ajisegiri
- Category: Innovation
The article also touted infrastructure as a new growth area. But as we’ve written, infrastructure deals are getting a deserved bad name in the US.
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Silicon Valley Rejects Shareholder Value Theory
- 25th December 2017
- Posted by: Tunde Ajisegiri
- Category: Funding trends
These were not top-tier b-school alum; they were writers, computer programmers, online forum moderators and ended up owing a fortune.
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Mutual Funds Cut Uber Valuation by as Much as 15%
- 24th December 2017
- Posted by: Tunde Ajisegiri
- Category: Franchising
Since then, the reports from the Uber side as to where SoftBank stands have kept shifting, and its allies can’t keep their story straight.
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Private Equity Firms Sued Over Retailer Bankruptcies
- 23rd December 2017
- Posted by: Tunde Ajisegiri
- Category: Funding trends
Gymboree’s June bankruptcy filing occurred days after it couldn’t make a semiannual interest payment on debt dating back to Bain Capital’s $1.8 billion 2010 buyout.
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