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- Completing The Capital Structure With A Second Lien Loan
- The economic downturn has dragged on longer than anticipated. Cash flow and collateral values have plunged. Terms on bank loans and traditional funding sources have gotten much tougher. It's not a pretty picture for the multitude of companies that are overleveraged or have maturing debt. Given these circumstances, one of...
- White papers 2003-01-04
- A Guide to Choosing Absolute Bank Capital Requirements
- Resampling implementation of a stress-scenario approach to estimating portfolio default loss distributions is proposed as the basis for estimates of the appropriate absolute level of economic capital allocations for portfolio credit risk. Estimates are presented for stress scenarios of varying severity. Implications of use of different analysis time horizons are...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- Optimal Capital Structure and the Market for Outside Finance in Commercial Real Estate
- When asked about optimal capital structure, the typical response from a commercial real estate investor is "go for it?use as much debt as possible." This answer, while not being necessarily incorrect, is not very informative. This paper seeks to articulate the economics underlying the market for outside finance in commercial...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Insurers and Reinsurers
- This paper builds on Froot and Stein (1998) in developing a framework for analyzing the risk allocation, capital budgeting, and capital structure decisions facing insurers and reinsurers. The model incorporates three key features: value-maximizing insurers and reinsurers face product market as well as capital market imperfections that give rise to...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Corporate Pension Plan Management Within the Capital Structure
- A perfect storm of adverse market conditions over the past three years has devastated many corporate defined benefit pension plans. Negative equity market returns have eroded plan assets at the same time that declining interest rates have increased benefit obligations. In extreme cases, this has left corporate pension plans with...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- ERM: From Compliance to Value
- Growing demands from shareholders for senior management to take enterprise risk management ERM more seriously has at last formalized the essential connection between a company's business operations and its overall risk management program. A unifying framework can help companies identify and articulate risks consistently across the enterprise and evaluate alternative...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Is Firm's Productivity Related to Its Financial Structure?: Evidence From Microeconomic Data
- Firms undertaking innovative activities typically hold a larger share of immaterial assets and have a different capital structure. Differences in the propensity to innovate are likely to translate in different TFP levels. Data is used on a panel of firms to study the relationship between firms' capital structure and TFP....
- White papers 2005-04-27
- NRG Energy Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Conference Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session[Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from Nitin Dahiya of Barclays. Please proceed with your question. Nitin Dahiya - Barclays Good morning. David Crane - President and Chief Executive Officer Good morning. Nitin Dahiya - Barclays Clint, from a GAAP structure point of view, I mean obviously you...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-30
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- The Murdock Group Forms Clear Capital Holdings Inc. to Pursue Acquisitions
- Business Editors SALT LAKE CITY--BUSINESS WIRE--June 12, 2001 The Murdock Group Holding Corp. (OTC BB: TMGS) Tuesday announced that it has formed Clear Capital Holdings Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, to acquire small businesses and real estate assets. Clear Capital will acquire assets and businesses with the...
- Research articles 2001-06-12
- Southwestern has task of shoring up capital structure. (Southwestern Life Corp.)
- Southwestern Life CEO and Chmn Glenn Gettier will focus on boosting the firm's capital structure, after the firm eliminated dividends on its preferred stock, coped with losses during the 4th qtr 1994 and dealt with rating agency downgrades. Gettier will consider selling non-core operations, such as group health business, to...
- Research articles 1995-02-06
- American Tower - Industry Leading Capital Structure
- American Tower is a leading owner and operator of communications sites for the wireless and broadcast industries, with more than 23,000 sites in the United States, Mexico, Brazil and India. The company's has grown its communications site portfolio through acquisitions and tower construction activities, primarily funded from cash flow from...
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Evans & Sutherland Appoints Corporate Vice President and Treasurer; Aerospace Veteran, Nicholas J. Iuanow, Joins E&S
- Business Editors, Technology Writers SALT LAKE CITY--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 23, 2000 Evans & Sutherland (E&SR) (Nasdaq:ESCC), today announced the appointment of Nicholas J. Iuanow to the position of Corporate Vice President and Treasurer. In this position, Mr. Iuanow will report to Chief Financial Officer Richard J. Gaynor, and...
- Research articles 2000-08-23
- Analyzing Borrowing Costs and Capitalization
- When a company borrows money, there are essentially two costs involved: the issuance expenses, which are fees charged to issue the loan, and the interest payments on the debt. If interest is added to the principle balance of the loan—rather than paid off—it's known as capitalization.Interest rates are usually based...
- Articles 2007-12-12
- Risk Management In Small Business - Part 2: Reducing Your Operational Risks
- The article asserts that through risk management one can limit the possible financial losses caused by unsuccessful normal business operations. It is essential to contemplate the things which could go wrong within the business and to evaluate the financial cost to one if these events happen. Then one can seek...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Pilgrim's Pride -- Embarrassing Case of Hubris and Greed
- [caption id="attachment_241" align="alignright" width="180" caption="Pilgrims Pride_logo"][/caption] On December 1, 2008, Pilgrim's Pride voluntarily filed for financial relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code after losing $820 million in 2008 and failing to renegotiate its debt agreements with lenders. The largest U.S. chicken processor allegedly struggled with low meat...
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- American Campus Communities: Debt Covenants and Dividend Cuts
- Richard Woon submits: American Campus Communities ACC is a real estate investment trust (a “REIT”) that bills itself as “…one of the nation's largest developers, owners and managers of high-quality student housing communities.”[i] I believe ACC will be forced to reduce the dividend to 26¢ per share or lower in...
- External links 2009-04-06
- Leveraged Recapitalizations: A Valuable Business Transition Tool
- Leveraged recapitalization can be a powerful financial tool that can assist companies and their owners in meeting their objectives. There is an ample supply of capital available in the market to consummate transactions; however, it is important to select the right financial partners and the appropriate capital structure. While Bank...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- New leader reorganizes NIH acquisition center
- NIH prepares to issue third CIO-SP GWAC Rob Coen arrived five months ago as deputy program manager at the National Institutes of Health's Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center and promptly flipped the center's operations and organizational structure. The remade organization boasts a streamlined structure, without the assisted acquisition services wing....
- News items 2009-08-17
- FrontLine Capital Refines Strategy to Underscore Value of HQ Global Workplaces; Forms Two Distinct Operating Units
- Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 18, 2000 FrontLine Capital Group (NASDAQ: FLCG) today announced it is refining its strategic plan to unleash the intrinsic value of HQ Global Workplaces, its largest partner company, and to maximize the value of its other holdings by altering FrontLine Capital's operating and...
- Research articles 2000-10-18
- Transcend Services, Inc. Sells Northeast Transcription Operations
- ATLANTA--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 17, 1999-- TRANSCEND SERVICES, INC. (NASDAQ:TRCRC) announced the sale of its Northeast-based medical transcription operations to MedQuist Transcriptions, Ltd., a subsidiary of MedQuist, Inc. (NASDAQ:MEDQ) The purchase price was $4.4 million in cash and a $231,500 note. The sale completes the first phase of the overall...
- Research articles 1999-12-17
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