ThomsonReuters

MARCH 1, 2024

The following guide offers numerous strategies and tips that owners of S corporations can use to lower their taxes, including deductions and credits. S corporations are required to file their annual tax return by the 15 th day of the 3rd month after the end of the tax year. How are S corporations taxed? When are S corps taxes due?

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Value Scout

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Gibson Greeting raised the rest of the money by selling and leasing its manufacturing and distribution centers, making the actual price $54 million. Borrowed money finances the buyout to pay for the investment. Using this proven acquisition strategy, the buyer purchases another company without committing a lot from its funds.

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ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Suzanne Offerman, Senior Proposition Manager, Global Trade, Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE. The session showcased the importance of having an innovation framework, a culture focused on change, a sophisticated technology strategy, and a clear vision. And we need to figure out where to invest the money best in order for it to enable that.”.

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ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Suzanne Offerman, Senior Proposition Manager, Global Trade, Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE. The session showcased the importance of having an innovation framework, a culture focused on change, a sophisticated technology strategy, and a clear vision. And we need to figure out where to invest the money best in order for it to enable that.”.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

The graph below shows the sovereign spreads for Russia and Ukraine in the weeks leading up and including the conflict: The sovereign CDS spread for Russia, which started the year at 1.70% soared above 25%, just after hostilities commenced, and were trading at 10.56% on March 16, after rumors that peace talks were underway brought them down.

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Lighter Capital

JANUARY 11, 2022

Ready to arm yourself with knowledge that will help you make the best financing decisions to keep growing a healthy business? If your startup does well, the warrant can be worth a lot of money to the lender. On its first day of trading, Roku started with a share price of $15.78 — already above the venture lender’s strike price.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

At this remarkable agency, we serve investors building for a better future and issuers raising money to fund innovation, while overseeing the $100 trillion capital markets where they meet. Since January 2022, we have provided a minimum of 60 days with some as long as 100-plus days from the day we a proposal is posted on our website.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

equity markets, 40 percent of the world’s share, trade over half a trillion dollars per day. Our reforms are designed to shed light on access fees and best execution practices — including by updating a nearly quarter-century old rule — and to promote competition between on-exchange and off-exchange trading.

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Lighter Capital

AUGUST 3, 2022

Mergers and acquisitions, SPACs, private equity, and IPOs helped to drive more than 1,150 exits — on average more than three per day, including holidays and weekends. High-growth tech companies, especially publicly traded entities, are down drastically, dimming the luster of IPOs. Pitchbook. ). percentage points.). percentage points.).

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 11, 2024

I started in the MBA program at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1979, at the tail-end of its basketball glory days, fully expecting to move on to a career in consulting or investment banking, when I was done. I describe my corporate finance class as an applied, big-picture class.

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Brian DeChesare

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

There may be operational improvements and platform strategies, but deals tend to rely on leverage. Company Types: These firms invest in large, publicly traded companies that serve addressable markets worth tens or hundreds of billions. The recruiting process and day-to-day work at these firms are similar to mega-funds.

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Brian DeChesare

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I traveled more than I had since 2018, which was a welcome break from staring at screens for 14 hours per day. Larger/established firms still care about brand names, but smaller/newer firms care more about performance than pedigree, similar to prop trading firms. And yes, we will cover commodity trading advisors (CTAs) soon.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 23, 2024

What were the key tailwinds and headwinds that made for a potent mix of dealmaking activity in 2023 that continue to impact the life sciences M&A environment in the early days of 2024? Moving into Q2 of 2023, roughly 29% of US public biotech companies traded below their cash value. This post takes a look. Let’s dig in.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I provide an introduction to cash flows and risk , and how they play out in the time value of money , and the basics of valuing contractual cash flows (bonds), residual cash flows (equity) and contingent cash flows (options). firms in emerging markets or private businesses.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 4, 2023

For example, the Indiana AG has stated that, “ESG is an investment strategy that focuses less on the financial health of a company and more on its social and environmental impacts…,” [4] citing a Forbes article written by two journalists. 38] The trade-off between risk and return is nothing more than Finance 101.

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Brian DeChesare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Sell-Side Definition: In the finance industry, “buy-side firms” raise money from institutions and wealthy individuals and invest on their behalf, profiting from management fees, performance fees, or both; “sell-side firms” earn money from commissions charged to facilitate deals and to sell, market, and trade equity, debt, and other securities.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 12, 2021

Last week, was my data week, where I download and analyze data on all publicly traded companies, listed anywhere in the world, and I will post extensively on what the numbers look like after a most tumultuous year. As we approach the turn of the calendar year, I have my own set of rituals that prepare me for the new year.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 7, 2023

While differentiating between good and bad banks can be straightforward, it does not follow that buying good banks and selling bad banks is a good investment strategy, since its success depends entirely on what the market is incorporating into stock prices.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 3, 2024

One manifestation is the way rules are made these days: very broad proposals, unreasonably short public comment periods, pared back final rules with substantial elements on which the public has not commented, and little SEC engagement in implementation discussions. The recent money-market fund rule is an example of this phenomenon.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 24, 2023

If the public doesn’t think the system is fair, at a minimum, they are not going to invest their hard-earned money. Each day, however, the dedicated Enforcement Division staff work tirelessly to enhance that trust, by bringing impactful enforcement actions and meaningful relief to investors. And that leads me to engagement.

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

[3] How have we not learned from the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 that the fragmentation and infighting among regulators is the best way to encourage unscrupulous market manipulators? Did the various regulators not see that it should have been, from day one, a cooperative undertaking once Bitcoin reached $ 100 million in June 2017?

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Brian DeChesare

AUGUST 10, 2022

And regardless of your experience, you do need a demonstrated interest in the industry to have the best shot at getting in. If you want a more traditional investment banking experience, Upstream is your best bet – assuming that commodity prices have not crashed recently. Services: 18 (mix of everything, with one notable PE deal).

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Andrew Stolz

JUNE 4, 2020

All of these are forcing management to think about protecting their profit against the exchange rate risk through hedging strategies and derivative instruments. A currency forward contract is an agreement between a buyer and a seller to trade an underlying asset (a currency) at a future date for a certain price.

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Brian DeChesare

JULY 27, 2022

Anyone who’s ever traded stocks can understand long/short equity , and even simple global macro trades are easy to explain to the average person. The simplest example of a long/short credit trade is to long one bond and short a similar bond issued by a peer company. You might also look at this trade and say, “Wait a minute.

Equity 52

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Brian DeChesare

MAY 18, 2022

Global macro might be the most paradoxical hedge fund strategy. Some global macro trade ideas are so simple that the average person who knows nothing about finance could understand them. In practice, very few hedge fund Portfolio Managers consistently achieve good results with this strategy over long periods.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the days after the report, the reaction has predictably fallen into the extremes, with one group arguing that this is the beginning of the end for the company's business and the other suggesting that this is the time to buy the stock, as it prepares for a new growth spurt.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 25, 2023

Global markets are inextricably linked, with money flowing between them in microseconds. The securities markets touch many American lives, whether those individuals are investing for the future, borrowing for a mortgage, taking out an auto loan, or taking a job with a company raising money from U.S. capital markets. capital markets.

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Audit Board

JUNE 8, 2023

Audit deliverables may also include recommendations for management and strategy. Publicly traded companies have their financial statements audited on an annual basis, incorporating the stipulations of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Publicly traded companies, management, and accounting firms. Who may need it? Who may need it?

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 11, 2022

Moreover, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reiterated in light of the COVID-19 crisis the importance of maintaining market integrity and adhering to corporate controls and procedures, particularly with respect to material nonpublic information (MNPI) and insider trading.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 30, 2022

The typical retail investor through mutual funds; many sophisticated investors through private funds; and everyone, it seems, through exchange traded funds. That is to say, I’m an aficionado of the form and have a deep appreciation for seeing it done to the best of its ability. And its exemptions. For the most part, that depends.

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ThomsonReuters

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The following is a guide to some of the most common questions current and prospective business owners have about how LLCs are taxed and strategies LLCs can use to reduce their tax burden. This strategy only makes sense under certain circumstances, and only an experienced tax attorney can determine if it’s a strategy worth considering.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 9, 2023

Interests, Intentions; Schedule 14A and Rule 13d Schedule 14A, the SEC’s proxy statement form, requires disclosure of the nominating stockholder’s position in securities of the target company, its trading history and contracts, arrangements and understandings that the nominating stockholder has entered into with respect to the target’s securities.

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Brian DeChesare

JUNE 1, 2022

The “classification tree” is simple because this sector is quite narrow: Of these verticals, electricity is easily the most important one; ~90% of publicly traded utility companies are involved in electricity in some way. Asset acquisitions are very common because they’re one of the few growth strategies available to these companies.

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Appraisers Blog

JULY 27, 2023

Even the Federal Register had special wording that amc companies were not to select appraisers by fee, but rather should select appraisers based on experience and best interests of consumers and such, issued in a similar time frame. ’ ‘Then why doesn’t the consumer save any money!?’

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

While I will point out some of the limits of this strategy below, the logic is simple. That process is not as time consuming or as arduous as it used to be, but it is not instantaneous; put simply, a company that sees its stock price go up 10-fold in a day won't be able to issue shares the next day. million to 115.1

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Two days after the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Cochran , the Fifth Circuit issued a 2-1 decision in Jarkesy v. On June 30, 2022, in a 6-3 split decision, the Supreme Court held that the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) lacks the authority to change the Clean Air Act’s definition of “best system of emission reduction.”

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Benzinga

APRIL 18, 2022

Rock Canyon Bank's highly successful SBA business strategy de-risks the balance sheet, produces strong fee income, and is scalable across our franchise. million decrease from two fewer calendar days. million largely due to two fewer calendar days. "Our focus on expanding NBHC's presence in high performing U.S.

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