In the ongoing search for returns, investors are piling into a “volatile and sometimes dangerous” group of ETFs, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. The article…
Tag: Leverage
Some Buyout Firms Taking Debt-Laced Dividends
A new Moody’s report shows that certain aggressive buyout firms are taking debt-financed dividends from the companies they own, and “potentially jeopardizing their ability to navigate a downturn,” according to…
Rising Leveraged Debt a Worry
The number of leveraged loans (lending agreements with the most indebted companies in the U.S. and Europe) is high, according to The Wall Street Journal, a “development that investors worry…
Want Private Equity Like Returns? Try a Levered Small Cap Stock Approach.
One young hedge-fund manager says that an investor can enjoy the same hefty returns touted by private-equity firms (through the purchase, turnaround and resale of troubled companies) through buying highly…