Equity valuations are high. But other options look even worse

EVERY investor would like to find the perfect measurement tool to tell them when to get into, and out of, the stockmarket. The cyclically adjusted price-earnings ratio (CAPE), as calculated by Robert Shiller of Yale University, averages profits over ten years and is used by many as an important valuation indicator. Currently it shows that […]

Larry Ellison won’t get paid any more equity unless he gets Oracle’s stock up to $80 (ORCL)

REUTERS/Robert Galbraith If Oracle CTO and renowned billionaire Larry Ellison wants to get any wealthier, he’s going to have to do right by shareholders.  The company just revealed a new, 100% performance-based equity package for its two CEOs and CTO aimed at reducing their total compensation over the next five years. The details were revealed in an investor presentation […]

Angeles Equity Partners Adds Three New Team Members

PRESS RELEASE: Experienced Professionals from Lindsay Goldberg, Credit Suisse, and Jefferies Expand Deal Origination and Execution Capabilities LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–August 15, 2017– Angeles Equity Partners, LLC (AEP), a private investment firm focused on value creation through operational transformation, today announced three new professionals have joined the firm. Maxwell Schechter joins the firm as Vice President […]

The retail apocalypse is being fueled by private equity firms adding to debt loads

Nearly every retail chain caught up in the brick & mortar meltdown is an LBO queen – acquired in a leveraged buyout by a private equity firm either during the LBO boom before the Financial Crisis or in the years of ultra-cheap money following it. During a leveraged buyout, the PE firm uses little of […]

A $2 billion energy-focused private equity fund just collapsed to almost zero

David McNew / Stringer / Getty Images Investors who’d plowed $ 2 billion four years ago into a private equity fund that had also borrowed $ 1.3 billion to lever up may receive “at most, pennies for every dollar they invested,” people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. Fund raising and investing started […]

Evolution Equity Partners Announces Final Close of New Cybersecurity Focused Fund

PRESS RELEASE: Fund will Partner with leading Cybersecurity and Next Generation Enterprise Software and Services Companies to Support International Growth NEW YORK & ZURICH–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 17, 2017– Evolution Equity Partners today announced the final closing of a new fund with total capital commitments of $ 125 million to make investments in cybersecurity and next generation […]

The equity chief at $5.4 trillion investment behemoth BlackRock shares her best investing advice

Bloomberg TV To Kate Moore, there’s nothing more important for an investor than keeping an open mind. Now the chief equity strategist at BlackRock, which oversees $ 5.4 trillion, Moore has used this as a guiding principle throughout her career — whether that meant figuring out the next move in her career, or making an […]

Wells Fargo equity chief: Shorting anything is ‘playing with fire’

Business Insider John Manley, chief US equity strategist for Wells Fargo Funds, spoke to Business Insider on July 11, 2017, where he discussed his views on shorting stocks, and explained why a healthy dose of pessimism is always good for an investor. Following is a transcript of the video.  Joe Ciolli: So on the topic […]

The equity chief at a $5.4 trillion investment juggernaut thinks you should shrug off one of the market’s biggest fears

Bloomberg TV The fear gauge for stocks is locked near its lowest levels on record, yet in an ironic twist, that very fact has led to one of the most anxiety-inducing situations in global markets. In an environment starved for the types of price swings that create investment opportunities, traders have turned their attention to one […]

Richard Garriott’s Portalarium to raise equity crowdfunding for Shroud of the Avatar

Richard Garriott’s Portalarium has raised $ 9.4 million over the past four years for its fantasy role-playing game Shroud of the Avatar. But the company is going back to fundraising via equity crowdfunding, something that wasn’t available when it started its original Kickstarter campaign. The latest fundraising plan requires Portalarium to disclose more financial details […]