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unusual facts about equity


Equity-indexed annuity

An indexed annuity (the word equity previously tied to indexed annuities has been removed to help prevent the assumption of stock market vesting being present in these products) in the United States is a type of tax-deferred annuity whose credited interest is linked to an equity index — typically the S&P 500 or international index.


4th Wall Theatre, Inc.

(aka 4th Wall Musical Theatre) is a non-equity theatre company in residence at the Westminster Arts Center on the campus of Bloomfield College, in Bloomfield, New Jersey, approximately 10 miles from Manhattan.

Aconex

In September 2008, Aconex secured an A$107.5m private equity investment from US-based technology investor Francisco Partners.

Anne Sweeney

She oversees Walt Disney Television Animation, Buena Vista Worldwide Television and Walt Disney Television International, and has responsibility for managing Disney’s equity interests in Lifetime Entertainment Services, and A&E Television Networks.

Avista Capital Partners

The firm, which is based in New York City, was founded in 2005 when a team of professionals, led by Thompson Dean and Steven Webster, completed a spinoff from Credit Suisse's private equity arm DLJ Merchant Banking Partners to form a new private equity firm.

Boomerang Media

Boomerang Media, L.L.C. is an American media company founded by John Engelman and Eric Ellenbogen (founders of Classic Media) and the private equity firm GTCR in 2008.

Catcha Group

Group CEO Patrick Grove has described Catcha Group as being akin to a venture equity firm rather than a traditional investment group.

Caterair

Caterair was sold by Carlyle to the Canadian private equity firm, Onex Corporation, in September 1995 which merged it with its other acquisition LSG/Sky Chef.

Chem-Mod

Spencer Abraham, the former Secretary of Energy, is listed as an advisor and indirect equity holder of Chem-Mod.

Derrick Fung

As part of the undergraduate program, he interned at Microsoft in Marketing, BNP Paribas in Equity Derivative Sales and on the trading floor of Merrill Lynch in 2009 as the first class after the merger with Bank of America.

Equity Insurance Group

On 4 December 2006, Australian insurer Insurance Australia Group announced that it would acquire Equity Insurance Group for £570 million.

FlexNet Publisher

On 1 April 2008 Macrovision's Software Business Unit, which included FLEXnet Publisher, was sold to the private equity company Thoma Cressey Bravo and subsequently relaunched as Acresso Software.

Greenlight Capital

As of 2013, the top equity holdings of the firm were in the shares of the following companies: Apple Inc, General Motors, Marvell Technology Group, CIGNA, Aetna, Computer Sciences, Delphi Automotive, NCR Corp., and Virgin Media.

Harinath Policharla

Dr. Policharla is also an equity partner in India based Global Hospitals Group.

HG Capital

H.I.G. Capital - a $7.5 billion private equity firm based in Miami

High Speed vendor Feed

HSVF various exchanges uses the following global Identifiers: Q = Montreal Exchange, B = Boston Options Exchange, E = Turquoise (trading platform) (Derivatives), O = Oslo Børs, I = IDEM (Italian Derivatives Equity Market) on Borsa Italiana.

Indian Depository Receipt

An Indian Depository Receipt (IDR) is a financial instrument denominated in Indian Rupees in the form of a depository receipt created by a Domestic Depository (custodian of securities registered with the Securities and Exchange Board of India) against the underlying equity of issuing company to enable foreign companies to raise funds from the Indian securities Markets.

James B. Lockhart III

He has served as Senior Vice President, Finance, at National Reinsurance(1996) which was acquired by General Reinsurance; Managing Director in Smith Barney's Investment Banking Group for financial institutions and Co-Head of its Private Equity Group (1993–1995); Vice President and Treasurer of Alexander & Alexander(1981–1989); and Assistant Treasurer of Gulf Oil in Europe and the U.S. (1974–1981).

John Fonblanque

John Anthony Fonblanque (1759–1837), English equity lawyer and Member of Parliament for Camelford 1802–1806

Joseph Schofer

He is actively engaged with the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Research Council, chairing national policy studies on Equity Implications of Evolving Transportation Finance Mechanisms and Strategies for Improved Passenger and Freight Travel Data; serving on the Technical Advisory Committee on Capacity for the Strategic Highway Research Program.

Karen Richardson

Richardson is a former adviser to Silver Lake Partners, a private equity investment firm that built successful investments in Skype, Seagate Technology and Alibaba Group Holding Co.

King Street Capital Management

Investments include public equity and fixed income markets globally with a focus in distressed companies, equity, bonds, foreign exchange, warrants, and options.

LECG Corporation

In October, 2000 the private equity fund Thoma Cressey Equity Partners and the management team of LECG announced the acquisition of assets from Navigant Consulting.

Lynne Scime

Recently, Scime has been a vocal opponent of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board's equity policy and has spoken out against LGBT rights.

Modelzone

ModelZone had 385 employees and 47 stores at the time of administration and was majority-owned by the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, Lloyds Development Capital, to whom the company owed £9 million of their £11 million debt, according to a statement of affairs prepared during administration.

MultiWeb Internet Browser

The browser was developed by the Equity Access Research and Development Group at Deakin University under a grant from the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services.

MyCargo Airlines

In February 2008, a 21 percent equity stake was acquired by Manara Investments Ltd.

Neil Back

Back and Nick Beal share the unusual distinction of being contemporary players whose names are anagrams of each other's, and they both worked for insurance company Equity & Law at the same time, too.

Neil Shephard

Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen, Peter Reinhard Hansen, Asger Lunde, Neil Shephard (2008), "Designing realised kernels to measure the ex-post variation of equity prices in the presence of noise", Econometrica.

NII Holdings

In February 2010, NII Holdings and Grupo Televisa signed a definitive agreement under which Televisa will acquire an equity stake in Nextel Mexico.

Orix

On July 1, 2013 Orix has acquired approximately 90.01% of the equity in Dutch asset manager Robeco from Rabobank also from the Netherlands.

PhotoBox

The company is majority owned by private equity firms Insight Venture Partners, Index Ventures, HarbourVest Partners, Quilvest Ventures, Greenspring Associates and Highland Capital Partners.

PrimeCo

The Illinois-Indiana PrimeCo territories were purchased by Clarity Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm in 2001, who successfully improved the company's operations and later sold it to U.S. Cellular.

Private equity in the 1990s

In the 1980s, FedEx and Apple Inc. were able to grow because of private equity or venture funding, as were Cisco, Genentech, Microsoft and Avis.

Rare disasters

The idea was first proposed by Rietz in 1988, as a way to explain the equity premium puzzle.

Red Mango

The company's investors and advisors include John Antioco (former CEO and Chairman of Blockbuster Inc.), Dallas-based private equity firm CIC Partners, movie producer John Davis who is the son of Marvin Davis, movie producer Roy Lee, and Stone Canyon Venture Partners.

Renaud Dutreil

He was appointed Chairman of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc. in August 2008 and is member of the Advisory Board of L Capital, a Private Equity fund part of LVMH.

Richard R. Murray

Richard R. Murray (born February 3, 1956 in Bay City, Michigan) is the founder of Equity Schools Inc. and has extensive experience in education and real estate.

Simpson's-in-the-Strand

The Savoy Group was purchased in 1998 by a private equity house, Blackstone Group, and, after further changes of ownership, the Savoy Hotel and Simpson's were split off from the rest of the group in 2005 and are run by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.

Solyndra

Major investors included George Kaiser Family Foundation, U.S. Venture Partners, CMEA Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Virgin Green Fund, Madrone Capital Partners, RockPort Capital Partners, Argonaut Private Equity, Masdar and Artis Capital Management.

The History of King Lear

The production was directed by the company's Artistic Director, W. Stuart McDowell, and featured Eric Hoffmann in the role of Lear, and supported by an Equity company of fifteen, including Frank Muller in the role of the Bastard Edmund.

The Teacher Salary Project

American Teacher also features interviews with US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Deputy Secretary of Education Brad Jupp, the founder of The Equity Project Charter School Zeke Vanderhoek, Stanford Professor of Education Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford economist Eric Hanushek, and several regional and national teachers of the year.

Triago

Triago serves private equity general partners and limited partners globally from offices in New York, Paris and Dubai and employs a staff of 28, representing 14 different nationalities.

Trudi Wilkes

She grew up doing youth theatre in Nottingam (Acorn/NYT) before landing an Equity contract at the Nottingham Playhouse.

Unanue family

Andy Unanue, current Managing Partner of AUA Private Equity Partners and former Chief Operating Officer of Goya Foods since 1999 after his brother Joseph died.

Vista Equity Partners

Prior to founding Vista Equity, Smith was the co-head of the enterprise systems and storage sector for Goldman Sachs' investment banking division.

WCAS

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a private equity investment firm in the United States

Wellspring

Wellspring Capital Management, a $2 billion private equity firm based in New York City

West Atlantic

Air Transport Services Group, Inc. announced on Dec 9, 2013 an agreement to acquire a 25 percent equity interest in West Atlantic.

Zeus Mortgage

He is a Certified Public Accountant and a recognized mortgage planning and equity management expert.


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