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Growth Equity: The Child Prodigy of Private Equity and Venture Capital, or an Artifact of Easy Money?

Brian DeChesare

Over the past few decades, growth equity (GE) has gone from an afterthought to a major asset class for huge investment firms. Some argue that GE offers the best of both worlds: the opportunity to fund innovation and growth – as in venture capital – plus the ability to limit downside risk and invest in proven companies – as in private equity.

Equity 101
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Decentralized Finance, Crypto Funds, and Value Creation in Tokenized Firms

Reynolds Holding

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) employs blockchain technology and smart contracts with the goal of enabling perfectly disintermediated financial markets. Cumming, DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at Florida Atlantic University. This post comes to us from Paul P.

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Best Financial Innovations 2024

Global Finance

Technology advances bring the high-touch experience to more clients, large and small. Innovation: AI-Based Fund Monitoring Company: Eurasian Bank In Kazakhstan, would-be homeowners often engage in shared-equity construction, a process in which future owners buy shares in a house under construction.

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Data Update 4 for 2024: Danger and Opportunity - Bringing Risk into the Equation!

Musings on Markets

In my last data updates for this year, I looked first at how equity markets rebounded in 2023 , driven by a stronger-than-expected economy and inflation coming down, and then at how interest rates mirrored this rebound. What is risk?

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Terminal Growth Rate – A Simple Explanation with Formula

Valutico

Explaining Free Cash Flow: Cash flow is like the lifeblood of a business (or your personal finances). Beyond valuations, the Terminal Growth Rate is used in various areas within the realm of finance and business decision-making. It covers tracking the money that comes in and goes out. Where is the Terminal Growth Rate Used?

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The Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office: How Banks Organize Their Dungeons

Brian DeChesare

The debate about the front office, middle office, and back office in the finance industry is one of the sillier and more exhausting ones. First, note that these terms apply only to investment banks and related finance firms (private equity firms, hedge funds, etc.).

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SEC Issues Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2022-2026

Reynolds Holding

capital markets at a higher rate than do market participants in other economies with their respective markets. For example, debt capital markets account for 80 percent of financing for non-financial corporations in the United States. The United States cannot take its remarkable capital markets for granted.