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In the private equity world, partnership agreements have received praise from many corners for reducing the agency costs arising between the interests of fund managers and investors. This article sets out to assess contract design in private equity partnerships. The argument here is that the importance of many of these heralded contract design features has been overstated. Part II describes the legal rights of investors in private equity funds. By default, investors in private limited partnerships have limited rights to participate in day-to-day operations or challenge decisions of fund managers. As a result of this set of default legal rules, investors in these funds face a familiar agency problem. That is, fund managers may be emboldened to pursue their own self-interest at the expens...
... in which to invest and managing those investments. As commentators have noted, the structure of the ...-based compensation arrangements.26 In short, in the corporate context, creating a contractual ... in these companies, and determine the terms and timing of exit from these companies.50 Thus, t... A recent study shows that one of the most common methods employs a fixed percentage of the amount t...
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Tennessee
UT to pay $416K in '08 bonuses
... and the temporary freezing of an investment fund. Last fall, Wachovia Bank announced plans to sell the Common Fund for Short Term Investments, a $9.3 billion in...
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(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2010 NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (head...The common law, however, has recognized an exception to the p... with respect to the management of funds belonging to Indiantribes bear some resemblance... on its trust funds, invested too heavilyin short-term maturities, and failed to pool its trus... or indirectly implicating the investmentsthat benefit Jicarilla" and contain "legal advice relat...
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... institutions with money in the Commonfund, a short-term investment vehicle whose trustee, Wa... clients by severely limiting access to fund accounts this fall. . "It's not causing undue conc... called the Common fund for Short-Term Investments, to meet their operational needs. . "There is no d...
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``CFTC'' or ``Commission'') is requesting comment on a proposed rule that would implement Section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (``Dodd-Frank Act'') which contains certain prohibitions and restrictions on the ability of a banking entity and nonbank financial company supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the ``Board'') to engage in proprietary trading and have certain interests in, or relationships with, a hedge fund or private equity fund (``CFTC Rule''). On November 7, 2011, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Treasury (``OCC''); the Board; the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (``FDIC''); and the Securities and Exchange Commission (``SEC'') published a joint pr...
... adopting the entire text of the proposed common rules section from the Joint Release (the ``Joint ... \6\ The term ``banking entity'' is defined in section 13(h)(1) ... and covered fund activities and investments. \10\ The CFTC also received a number of comme... been taken principally for the purpose of short-term resale or benefiting from actual or expected ...
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... of dollars from the FDIC Deposit Insurance Fund, reducing it to its lowest level since 1992, at th... of the largest banks to sell their long-term debt in the private markets without government bac...The use of a common geographic region attempts to control for the infl... able to identify all banks with POSitive short-term performance during this period. It is very im... there yet? The Journal of Alternative Investments, 11, 57-67. . Sinkey, F. (1975). A multivariate st...
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The University of Dayton remains in solid financial condition despite a significant and rapid decline in the market value of its investments, said President Daniel J. Curran.
UD's endowment has dropped from a high of $410 million at the end of fiscal year 2007 to $317 million as of Oct. 31. However, higher- thanexpected enrollment this year has produced "millions of dollars of surplus," Curran said.
... in the state budget, and then state funding for us," said Matthew Filipic, Wright State senior... access billions of dollars from Wachovia's Common Fund for Short-Term Investments. Many schools depe...
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... agreements among local governments are common in a variety of policy areas, particularly service...The term policy network is commonly used to describe the fo... choices, particularly through project funding. Included in the horizontal dimension are other go... agreements may include large capital investments and financial risk, which can reduce the likelihoo... that are generally oriented towards short term rather than long term and equitable decisions...
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The OCC, Board, FDIC, and SEC (individually, an ``Agency,'' and collectively, ``the Agencies'') are requesting comment on a proposed rule that would implement Section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (``Dodd-Frank Act'') which contains certain prohibitions and restrictions on the ability of a banking entity and nonbank financial company supervised by the Board to engage in proprietary trading and have certain interests in, or relationships with, a hedge fund or private equity fund.
... \3\ The term ``banking entity'' is defined in section 13(h)(1) ... and covered fund activities and investments. \7\ The Agencies also received a number of co..., the Agencies have proposed a common rule and appendices. This uniform approach to impl... been taken principally for the purpose of short-term resale or benefiting from actual or expected ...
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...From humble beginnings only a short ten years ago, the company has seen continual grow... to borrow a significant amount of long-term and short- term funds from his local bank, First S... possibility of going public and issuing common stock to fund his expansion plans. . Potential Fly... amount of cash available for future investments after paying for required investments in fixed ass...