Ipo

• Jan 25, 2019
• Finance

Stock Offerings and Investor Monitoring: IPOs, Exchanges, and Corporate Governance

Book: Financial Markets and Institutions, 11th Edition Author: Jeff Madura Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2015 ISBN: 978-1-133-94788-2

Chapter 10 moves from debt markets to equity markets. This is about how companies sell ownership to the public, how stock exchanges work, and how investors try to keep corporate managers honest. If the previous chapters were about lending money, this one is about buying a piece of a company.

• Jan 13, 2019
• finance

Chapter 6: Is Private Equity Going Mainstream? Trends, Bubbles and Dry Powder

Private equity used to be the quiet kid in the back of the finance classroom. Small groups of rich people pooling money together to buy companies, fix them up, sell them. Nobody outside the industry really cared. That changed. PE firms got huge, went public, and started buying companies the size of small countries. Chapter 6 of Demaria’s book asks the obvious question: is private equity going mainstream? And if so, what does that mean for everyone involved?